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REPORT OF THE JURY – AWARDS FOR BEST BELGIAN SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS
| Edition 2015
Introduction
The Institute of Registered Auditors (IBR-IRE) organises for the 17th time the Awards for Best Belgian Sustainability Reports.
The Awards 2015 are organised with the support of the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development (FIDO/IFDD) and this year the event is hosted by KBC group. The organiser would like to thank KBC group for its welcome and the FIDO/IFDD, as well as The Shift, the Union of Self-Employed Entrepreneurs (UNIZO), the Union of the Middle Classes (UCM), the Antwerp Management School (AMS), the Walloon Union of Companies (UWE), the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Wallonia (CCI Wallonie), the Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry (Beci), the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Eupen, Malmedy and Sankt Vith (IHK), MVO Vlaanderen and the Flemish network of enterprises (VOKA) for their cooperation and support to this initiative.
Every organisation that issues a sustainability report on its activities in Belgium and beyond – regardless of the size of the organisation or its industry – can participate in the Awards. The report has to communicate on the activities of a Belgian legal entity or on the Belgian activities of a foreign entity. To be eligible, the report on the Belgian activities of a foreign entity must set clear sustainability objectives and provide suf cient information on the basis of certain selected criteria
(targets, results etc.) for Belgium. The organisation has to report on its economic, social and environmental activities and performance.
The 2015 edition of the Awards for Best Belgian Sustainability Reports rewards the best report in four distinct categories, i.e. the category “large organisations”, the category “small and medium-sized enterprises”, the category ”NGOs“ (non- governmental organisations) and the category “other organisations”, such as universities and schools, socio-economic organisations and governmental institutions.
The goals of the Awards for Best Belgian Sustainability Reports are:
to stimulate organizations to report on their activities with regard to sustainable development and to propose guidelines on best practices in this respect;
to encourage external assurance of non- nancial information by a registered auditor listed with IBR-IRE;
to increase organizations’ awareness of the use of reporting on sustainability issues as a tool to help them engage in a transparent and effective dialogue with stakeholders;
to boost integration of societal responsibility beyond organisations and to reward transparent and relevant communication on sustainable development.
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