Year;Development 1976;"OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises" 1977;"ILO adopts Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy" 1995–1999;"controversies in media about multinationals doing business with dictatorial regimes, such as Turkey, China, Burma, Cuba." 1998;"Project ‘multinationals and human rights’ with NGOs (Amnesty, Pax Christi), scientists and 9 large listed companies (among which ABN AMRO and ING)" 1999–2005;"Exponential growth of socially responsible investment funds" 2000;"Report Socio Economic Council (SER) on the roles of the various stakeholders, including government, in promoting CSR. Advice to develop sustainability reporting guidelines." 2000;"GRI G1 (2002: G2 introduced and HQ moved to Amsterdam)" 2000;"UN Global Compact" 2000–2002;"ABN AMRO, ING, Aegon launch socially responsible investment funds" 2001;"Memorandum of the secretary of state to the Dutch house of representatives, based on SER report, expressing government’s view on CSR; goal: stimulating discussion with businesses." 2003;"Non-binding recommendations on sustainability reporting by the Dutch Accounting Standards Board based on 2000 SER-report and GRI" 2003;"EC Directive 2003/51/EC, which requires inclusion of relevant non-financial KPI’s, including explicitly mentioned only environmental and employee matters, in the consolidated annual report." 2004;"First Transparency Benchmark by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, naming companies and benchmarking their individual sustainability reporting" 2005;"2003/52/EC included in Dutch Civil Code (Titel 9 BW2). Comply or explain basis." 2007–2011;"Credit crisis" 2008;"Dutch Corporate Governance Code: management includes relevant societal aspects of doing business in the annual report. Comply or explain basis." 2009;"First edition of the Fair Banking Index creates media attention; banks (and in later editions insurers)" 2011;"UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP)" 2013;"EU Directive 2013/34/EU, which requires inclusion of relevant non-financial KPI’s, including explicitly mentioned only environmental and employee matters, in the management report." 2014;"Integrated Reporting Framework by the IIRC" 2014;"EU Directive 2014/95/EU, which requires inclusion of a non-financial statement, containing relevant information on HR policies and due diligence, outcomes of these policies, principal HR-risks and how to manage those, or an explanation why not included" 2015;"2013/34/EU included in Dutch Civil Code (Titel 9 BW2). Comply or explain basis." 2016;"Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on international responsible business conduct regarding HR (agreement on adherence to OECD and UNGP)" 2017;"2014/95/EU included in Dutch Civil Code (Titel 9 BW2). Comply or explain basis." 2017;"Dutch Corporate Governance Code approved (announced 2016): management report contains vision and strategy on long term value creation, including HR. Comply or explain basis." 2018;"Agreement on International Responsible Investment in the insurance sector."