4. Insists that each of the 27 Member States must accelerate the revision of its national action plan on CSR, and the development of national plans implementing the relevant OECD Guidelines and UN Guiding Principles, which should be finalised at the latest by December 2013; considers that the Member States should ensure that these plans are drafted with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including NGOs, civil society, trade unions, employers’ organisations and national human rights institutions (NHRI); calls on the EU to facilitate learning from the experience of those Member States which are currently undergoing this ...[+++]process; encourages the Member States to draw inspiration from the guidelines contained in the ISO 26000 standard, the most recent version of the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, and the guidance developed by the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions;

33 Insists that each of the 27 Member States must accelerate the revision of its national action plan on CSR, and the development of national plans implementing the relevant OECD Guidelines and UN Guiding Principles, which should be finalised by December 2013 at the latest; considers that the Member States should ensure that these plans are drafted with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including NGOs, civil society, trade unions, employers’ organisations and national human rights institutions (NHRI); calls on the EU to facilitate learning from the experience of those Member States which are currently undergoing this ...[+++]process; encourages the Member States to draw inspiration from the guidelines contained in the ISO 26000 standard, the most recent version of the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines and the guidance developed by the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions;

fruitful cooperation between education and research institutes, including research and technology organisations (RTOs), businesses, governments and citizens, also by establishing collaborative platforms and tools such as open networks, open standards, clusters approaches for sharing knowledge and ideas,

6. Stresses that the regular last-minute changes of the election rules and the continuing discussions about the application of these election rules create an atmosphere of unnecessary controversy around all elections; therefore welcomes that a draft for a Unified Election Code has now been tabled for adoption in the Verkhovna Rada; welcomes in this context the readiness expressed by President Yanukovych to draw lessons from the local elections and advance on the adoption of this Electoral Code; stresses that electoral reform should be conducted through a transparent and participative process and should ensure that a revised electoral framework is in place well ahead of parliamentary elections; urges ...[+++] the Ukrainian authorities to take up the offers for support by the institutions of the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE to come to a law which is fully in line with European standards; urges the authorities to adopt a law on political party financing that is in line with European standards and to consider the possibility of state funding for political parties to decrease their dependence on economic interests;

9. Includes: Forum of Federations; Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society; Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society; Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities, Unviversity of Moncton; Frontier College Learning Foundation; Canadian Institute for Health Information; Precarn; Canadian Network for Advancement of Research, Industry and Education; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Canadian Centre for Learning.

These organizations are Canadian Institute for Health Information; Green Municipal Enabling Fund; Precarn; Canadian Network for Advancement of Research, Industry and Education; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Canadian Centre for Learning.