{"id":2257,"date":"2015-06-12T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:05:38","slug":"ncp-norway-attends-successful-meetings-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/news\/ncp-norway-attends-successful-meetings-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"NCP Norway attends successful RBC meetings in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-wrap post-content clearfix\"><p>OECD has an ongoing project to support China&#8217;s reform of stateowned companies and to promote responsible business conduct (RBC) in China. Many multinational companies from OECD-countries, including Norway,\u00a0have business activities and relationships\u00a0in China, and the OECD Guidelines are relevant for them and Chinese businesses even though China is not an OECD-member.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The purpose of this workshop in China in the end of May was to exchange experiences and share information with Chinese authorities, businesses and other stakeholders that work on responsible business.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium\">The National Contact Points (NCPs) established through the OECD Guidelines, are important in that respect, and several\u00a0NCPs, including the new Chair of NCP Norway, Ola Mestad,\u00a0participated in the workshop.\u00a0\u00a0They told about their work on promoting RBC and resolving issues\/complaints through good offices and mediation.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> The workshop\u00a0can be seen as\u00a0a contribution towards\u00a0strengtehened functional\u00a0equivalence amongst the NCPs. The workshop\u00a0was also useful\u00a0with regards to questions related\u00a0to a future adherence by China to the OECD Guidelines. <a href=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2015\/11\/Mestad-Kina.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2973 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2015\/11\/Mestad-Kina-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mestad-Kina\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The workshop in Beijing was constructive and well-organized, with representatives from Chinese authorities and businesses.\u00a0They showed a great interest for the OECD Guidelines and in his presentation, NCP Norway\u00a0Chair Ola Mestad, focused on\u00a0how Norway has organized its NCP as a politically and in substance independent body from government with experts nominated by civil society, business and trade unions. He also mentioned that Norwegian authorities were working on ensuring consistency in the application of the OECD Guidelines in both private and public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Mestad informed that the Norwegian state has more state-owned enterprises than many other OECD-countries, and that the OECD Guidelines are referred to in the mandate of the The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund and in government ownership policies for state-owned enterprises. The state, as owner, expects that its companies actively and systematically work to fulfill their obligations within the field of corporate social responsibility\/responsible business conduct, and Norwegian authorities follow-up this through dialogue with the companies.\u00a0In that way they try to prevent that the companies contribute to violations of human rights,\u00a0labour rights or take part in corruption or environmentally harmful activities. Mestad underlined that the Norwegoan government also expects\u00a0such responsible business conduct\u00a0from privately owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Through the two days in Beijing, Chinese authorities and businesses were also informed of the importance responsible business conduct is for sustainable development; how the OECD Guidelines can be promoted and made more visible. The participants had active discussions and worked with case studies. Chinese authorities and businesses\u00a0were particularly interested in what effect a Chinese adherence to the OECD Guidelines would have for Chinese businesses when they invested in other countries.\u00a0The workshop concluded with an agreement that the dialogue between the OECD, OECD countries and China should continue with an emphasis on increased co-operation, sharing of information and experiences. NCP Norway appreciates the invitation to take part in this event and looks forward to seeing how the cooperation can be moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the workhop at <a href=\"http:\/\/mneguidelines.oecd.org\/china-rbc-workshop-2015.htm\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">OECD<\/span><\/u><\/a> &#8216;s website.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OECD has an ongoing project to support China&#8217;s reform of stateowned companies and to promote responsible business conduct (RBC) in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"language":"en-GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209725,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/209725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}