Major pieces of Legislation related to CSRThe wide spectrum of Greek legislation provides many laws related to basic CSR issues but not specifically mentioned as such (e.g. laws on health and safety, human rights, equal opportunities, the right of collective agreement, the environment etc.). It has been calculated that CSR issues are included in the responsibility framework of nine Ministries.
In the State plan for 2007 – 2013 CSR appears as a horizontal axes in most ministry budgets but not in a clear and direct way.
One law that is related to CSR is the one which provides tax reductions to companies supporting cultural events. Law No 3525 was published in the No 16/26 January 2007 Government Gazette under the name “Cultural sponsorships”.
In the near future the Ministry of Environment will launch a Green Public Procurement policy and the Ministry of Employment is planning to issue guidelines for the implementation of a CSR label (mainly focusing on employee rights etc.)
The HNCSR has also recently started a dialogue with several Government officials for the materialization of a national strategy on CSR. The discussions are in progress.