Translation of "Social responsibility cost " (English → French) :

10. Recognises that contracting authorities have an important role in using their purchasing power to procure goods and services with higher ‘societal’ value; underlines that social procurement can make an important contribution to the achievement of the EU 2020 targets and that it should be promoted in accordance with the principles of competition, transparency, non-discrimination and cost-effectiveness, and respecting the needs of SMEs; calls, accordingly, on contracting authorities to assess the social risks and the impact of their own activities and of the supply chain; calls on the Commission to ...[+++]foster the development of contact points for environmentally responsible public procurement within the individual Member States, with a view to developing socially responsible procurement practices and providing stakeholders with specialised legal advice;

31. Emphasises the lack of clarity in the area of socially responsible public procurement, and calls on the Commission to provide assistance in the form of manuals; draws attention, in this connection, to the changes in the legal framework brought about by the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and looks to the Commission to implement the relevant provisions in an appropriate manner; emphasises the underlying problem that social criteria relate to the manufacturing process, so that their impact is generally indiscernible in the final product, and that globalised production systems and complex supply chains make compli ...[+++]ance with the criteria difficult to monitor; expects, therefore, precise, verifiable criteria and a database containing product-specific criteria to be developed for the area of socially responsible public procurement as well; draws attention to the problems faced by contracting authorities, and the costs they incur, in verifying compliance with such criteria, and calls on the Commission to offer suitable assistance and to promote instruments which can be used to certify the reliability of supply chains;

There are studies that show that investing in the arts reduces health care costs and gives people an aging population a higher quality of life, reduces social services costs, is one of the most effective ways to deal with teenagers with crystal meth or other kinds of addiction problems, reduces policing costs, teaches responsibility and tolerance.

24. Takes the view that enterprises are more likely to win the trust of consumers by adopting a comprehensive social approach and assuming responsibility at local level rather than by following an approach based purely on the maximisation of profits or cost-saving measures; calls on entrepreneurs and managers to acquire the theory and practice of such a social approach in further education courses and to implement practices consistent with a policy of corporate social responsibility;

In 1964, the Royal Commission on Health Services reviewed the health system and recommended that the federal government also enter into agreements with the provinces to share the costs of comprehensive, universal medical care for their residents, sustaining the view that pre-paid access to medically necessary physician care for all Canadians was equitable, cost-effective and socially responsible.

For instance, what about foreclosures and the consequent costs versus being proactive to help their victims with special measures to prevent social harm and allow amelioration, repair, and stabilization of the market, rather than behaving as the cold banker who acts with no social responsibility for the human element of their clients?