Sustainability Report: present status and future

With a new perspective, although long it’s consolidated, the CSR, the Sustainability Report has become the main instrument of social and environmental reporting, to be attached to the purely economic vision resented by the Annual Management Budget. Those two documents are completing each other and together can provide, to stakeholders, the whole framework about the results, reports, spill and the company involvement in its territory place of action. The preparation of this report has become, for many companies, a form of investment and fits well with a new corporate governance, open to a more organic and determining participation towards the internal and external users. But it is an important means of communication for the company and to make know its image, only if it is built in depth, not superficial, considering the subject that more affect the community and encouraging a link of continuous contact and transparent relationships with people, as real or potential stakeholders. The Sustainability Report is evolving, in order to understand all the sensitive issues of the community and is transforming its vision triple bottom line (economic, social, environmental), with a view to multistakeholder type, to offer a panorama all-round of the business, which might better suit the individual needs of users of products / services offered by the company. The enterprise image must therefore be the most faithful possible to the parameters that civil society requires and, in the classical improving continuously logic, must pursue the temporal standard of sustainability more sophisticated and current, indicative of a reality in perpetual evolution. These standards are provided by national, European and international laws and also by the ISO standards related the areas of application concerning Quality, Safety at Work, Environment and Ethics.