founded 2001 headquarters london and brussels belgium uk and italy key people mrs.blanche ullens de schooten chairman products solicited sustainability ratings services sustainability rating website standard ethics standard ethics is a sustainability reporting and rating agency based in london and brussels which aims at promoting corporate ethics corporate social responsibility csr socially responsible investing sri and corporate governance according to the principles and guidelines of the united nations un the organisation for economic co operation and development oecd and the european union eu . 1 standard ethics in march 2013 becomes the first independent european sustainability rating agency corporate social responsibility and corporate governance following the decision to issue only rating on request solicited with a standard methodology . 2 contents 1 standard ethics rating 1.1 assessment system 2 standard ethics indices 2.1 national ratings 3 references 4 external links standard ethics rating edit the standard ethics rating is a solicited sustainability rating ssr . it is a rating that intends to deliver an opinion on the level of compliance by companies and sovereign nations in the field of sustainability and corporate social responsibility csr on the basis of documents and guidelines published by the united nations un the organisation for economic co operation and development oecd the european union eu . 3 the methodological approach of standard ethics dates back to 2001 as a research department of the agenzia europea d investimenti aei spa an italian holding company active in the sustainable investments . it becomes a separate entity after a spin off in 2003 . 4 5 6 7 assessment system edit since 2002 the final assessments by standard ethics on the level of conformity of companies and nations to the baseline ethical values are expressed with eight different ratings eee ; eee ; ee ; ee ; ee ; e ; e ; e . 8 eee stands for above average ; ee for average ; e for below average . those nations and companies that do not comply with the values expressed by the united nations do not receive ratings and are included amongst the suspended issuers . standard ethics uses an analyst driven rating process so the work to be carried out does not require applicants to fill out forms and questionnaires or draft other documentation in addition to existing information . standard ethics indices edit publication of sers grants access to one or more standard ethics indices according to company s type and size . for europe standard ethics has created the following indices italian index with companies within the ftse mib index of the italian stock exchange that have been assigned a standard ethics rating . french index composed of the largest french listed companies with a standard ethics rating . belgium index composed of the largest belgium listed companies with a standard ethics rating . swiss index composed of the largest swiss listed companies with a standard ethics rating . italian mid index composed of the italian listed companies that have the standard ethics rating and with a market cap above 250 million euro . italian small index composed of the italian listed companies that have the standard ethics rating and a market cap below 250 million euro . european green bonds index composed of all major euro green bonds issue ; italian banks index . this is a governance index with banks listed in the italian stock exchange . the way standard ethics reports on its indices is based on full disclosure . national ratings edit the following 44 listings in 2013 standard ethics for the first time assigns the rating to the vatican city state 9 country rating outlook date argentina 17e october 2015 australia 21ee october 2015 austria 22eee october 2015 belgium 19ee october 2015 brazil 19ee april 2014 bulgaria 19ee april 2014 canada 21ee october 2015 chile 18e october 2015 china 16e april 2014 czech republic 20ee negative february 2016 denmark 23eee april 2014 egypt 16e april 2014 estonia 19ee april 2014 finland 23eee october 2015 france 22eee april 2014 germany 21ee april 2014 united kingdom 22eee april 2014 greece 20ee under monitoring january 2015 hungary 18e february 2016 iceland 23eee april 2014 india 17e under monitoring april 2014 ireland 22eee april 2014 israel 18e april 2014 italy 21ee april 2014 japan 20ee april 2014 luxembourg 21ee october 2015 mexico 19ee april 2014 netherlands 22eee april 2014 new zealand 22eee october 2015 norway 23eee october 2015 poland 19e february 2016 portugal 20ee april 2014 romania 19ee april 2014 russia 17e under monitoring april 2014 slovenia 21ee october 2015 slovakia 20ee negative february 2016 south africa 19ee october 2015 south korea 18e april 2014 spain 22eee april 2014 sweden 23eee april 2014 switzerland 21ee april 2014 turkey 18e april 2014 usa 22eee april 2014 vatican city 20ee 10 april 2014 references edit http www.iseing.org egov egov05 source % 20files papers cameraready 14 p.pdf http www.thenational.scot business fresh blow for rbs as ethics agency gives them an e rating .17688 standard ethics differently from other agencies did not define the concept of ethics in 2003 standard ethics inherited developing a non subjective and pre determined system of values called sustainability or institutional approach . finanza etica la nazione del 24 luglio 2003 articolo di jacopo schettini gherardini e le societ quotate faranno i conti con il rating etico corriere della sera del 18 05 2002 articolo di massimo sideri . e arrivato etif il fondo fatto ad onu . l agenzia europea degli investimenti scende in campo con un bilanciato internazionale . e con emissione di rating per i paesi ocse . vita del 15 novembre 2002 articolo di francesco maggio . fondi etici perch non sono tutti uguali . repubblica affari e finanza del 25 novembre 2002 . articolo di mariano mangia . l agenzia europea degli investimenti cambia pelle trasformandosi da holding ad agenzia di rating mf 23 maggio 2002 . csr magazine october 2002 p. 35 vatican city state receives elevated standard ethics rating . 2013 10 28 vatican radio.http www.news.va en news vatican city state receives elevated standard ethi http en.radiovaticana.va news 2013 10 28 vatican city state receives elevated standard ethics rating en1 741479 external links edit official website european union retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title standard ethics aei & oldid 720845254 categories social responsibility organizationshidden categories use dmy dates from august 2015pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 18 may 2016 at 08 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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