What is The AA1000AS Register?

The AA1000AS Register is part of the CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, which is a free directory of company issued CSR, Sustainability and Environment reports from around the world.

The AA1000AS Register covers a subset of the thousands of reports featured on CorporateRegister.com by providing access solely to those reports which use the AccountAbility AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS).

We offer access to the very latest AA1000AS reports as they are published, and provide an archive of reports for each company featured.

Report profiles can display information on the hard copy reports we collect in our own archives and/or provide direct access to the PDF version.

This is a free service for featured companies and site users.

The AA1000AS Register is owned, hosted and managed entirely by CorporateRegister.com Limited. Any updates and modifications to profiles on The AA1000AS Register can be made directly through us, see Sending us reports / Contacting us.

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Why the AA1000AS Register?

CorporateRegister.com designed The AA1000AS Register as an online tool for AccountAbility to provide information on reports using the AA1000 Assurance Standard. As a ‘subset’ of the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory we do not ask users to sign up for access to AA1000AS reporting information as we do on the comprehensive CorporateRegister.com site.

CorporateRegister.com has been tracking AA1000AS reports for several years. You can find all the AA1000AS reports together with thousands more non-AA1000AS reports after free sign up on the main site CorporateRegister.com. Signing up will also open up a number of other search parameters, access to statistics and much more.

The AA1000AS Register has been developed to help users find information as quickly and efficiently as possible. We hope you find this service useful, and would be interested in receiving your feedback.

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Which companies and reports feature in The AA1000AS Register?

1. The AA1000AS Register follows the same general guidelines for inclusion found on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, namely:
   
   We aim to include every relevant published corporate report, without limitations of country or company size and across all sectors, public and private. We actively research new reports where they are not provided directly by the reporting company.
   
   We will attempt to contact the companies we feature to request the most up to date information. In the absence of any contact we will maintain a company’s free reporting profile through our independent, periodic research.
   
   We have had to take a view on what types of publications to include on the site. We feature reports and reviews – not brochures, marketing and related publications. We do not feature publications which are sales material, have no reference year, no quantitative data and no statement of policy.
   
   Some of our featured report profiles include sections from annual reports. These sections need to comprise at least 6 pages.
   
   
2. We have taken guidance from AccountAbility on which reports can be qualified as ‘AA1000AS’ reports:
   
   What constitutes an AA1000 assurance statement?
   An AA1000 assurance statement should address the credibility of the sustainability report and the underlying systems, processes and competencies that deliver the relevant information and underpin the organisation’s performance.

   An assurance statement, complying with the AA1000 Assurance Standard, must cover the following elements:

   1. A statement on use of the AA1000 Assurance Standard (including how the assurance provider applied the AA1000 principles of materiality, completeness and responsiveness).

   2. A description of work undertaken and a description of level of assurance pursued.

   3. Conclusions as to the quality of the report and underlying organisational processes, systems and competencies.

   4. Additional commentary (which could cover suggestions for improvements in the organisation’s sustainability reporting).

   The assurance provider is also required to make information publicly available about its independence from the reporting organisation, and its competencies.

If you have a relevant report that we have missed, please inform us (see Sending us Reports).

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Are any reports not included in The AA1000AS Register?

The AA1000AS Register is bound by the same guidelines and research coverage found on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory:

1. The site is always expanding as we research or are sent new reports. There will always be reports we miss, which is why we request full participation from reporting companies and stakeholders to help us fill any gaps.
   
   By comparing the occurrence of already profiled to newly identified reports in our daily research cycles we estimate that we track at least 90% of all reporting companies. Please contact us if you have information on new reports.
   
   
2. Our free service extends to hard copy profiles and PDF hosting. We do not provide links to HTML version reports as part of our basic free service.
   
   A major reason we have taken this position is because research of other sites and our own experience has revealed that maintaining a large directory of live URLs (web-links) is very difficult. Whereas PDF reports can be held on our own servers, HTML only reports are solely available on the reporting company’s website and would need to be linked from CorporateRegister.com. These reports can be relocated or simply removed without our knowledge, resulting in broken links from our directory.
   
   However, we offer HTML report links to leading reporters as part of our expanded PriorityReporter package.
   
   
3. We do not profile reports which are only published in non-latin scripts. This is in part due to the technical limitations of displaying non-latin script reports in most PDF viewers and browsers. We also need to be able to interpret the reports we feature in order to populate our report profiles with relevant information.
   
   
4. We do not feature EMAS statements, as this information is available elsewhere. However, if an EMAS statement is expanded to feature an environmental report, and especially if it covers several sites in one document, we will include it.


5. We will not include PDF files over 25MB in size. Files this large are very hard to access and browse, and also demand a lot of bandwidth.

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Adding a report to the Register

If you would like your report or reports included on The AA1000AS Register, please first check to see if your report features in the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory. If already available we may just need to change the ‘status’ of your report to ensure that it features both on the main site and in the The AA1000AS Register.

If we do not feature your report on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, we will need the following from you:

Copies and types of report

We need four hard copies of all published reports, past and current. By ‘hard copies’ we refer to professionally printed documents, rather than computer print-outs or photocopies. We include all reporting categories featured on the site.

Electronic Formats:

PDF Reports:

We host PDFs of featured reports: please help us access these files (by providing a URL, or sending the PDFs on CD or by e-mail). We request permission before hosting PDFs.

HTML Reports:

We provide direct links to HTML reports for PriorityReporters only. Please contact us if you have an HTML report format and would like it added to your profile.

Contact details

Who should be contacted to obtain copies of your reports? You might want to send us details of several contacts for different countries/languages. We need name, job title, postal address, telephone and fax, e-mail.

Languages

In which languages is your report available? If you publish in several languages, we use the English version, giving details of the others. If your report is unavailable in English we will still include it.

Other organisations

If it is not evident in the report, it would be helpful if you would inform us of the external consultants/designers/printers/third party statement organisations involved in helping develop your report (name of organisation, brief contact details).

Updating

Contact us to update information from your current or earlier reports - for example if some language versions are out of print, or if company details need updating etc.

Please send the reports and information to:

CorporateRegister.com Limited
G18 Clerkenwell Workshops
31 Clerkenwell Close
London
EC1R 0AT

Tel: +44 (0)20 70143366 Fax: +44 (0)20 70143367

E-Mail: info@corporateregister.com

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What else does CorporateRegister.com Offer?

Sign up online for full access to CorporateRegister.com. Access our full directory of both AA1000AS and non-AA1000AS reports and find an array of additional CSR related information and services.

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Contacting CorporateRegister.com and AccountAbility

If you have any questions or require further information about The AA1000AS Register or CorporateRegister.com, please email us at info@corporateregister.com call us on +44 (0)20 70143366.

Information on the AA1000 Assurance Standard can be obtained from AccountAbility on : +44 (0) 20 7549 0400 / secretariat@accountability21.net

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