Message-ID: <22419556.1075845056002.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:50:00 -0800 (PST) From: mark.haedicke@enron.com To: michael.a.robinson@enron.com Subject: New Security and Human Rights Policy - Legal Comments Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Mark E Haedicke X-To: michael.a.robinson@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mark_Haedicke_Oct2001\Notes Folders\Sent X-Origin: HAEDICKE-M X-FileName: mhaedic.nsf ----- Forwarded by Mark E Haedicke/HOU/ECT on 11/03/2000 04:48 PM ----- John Schwartzenburg@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT 11/02/2000 03:34 PM To: Sandeep Katwala/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Randy Young@ECT, John Novak/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Frank Sayre/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, paul.kraske@enron.com, mark.evans@enron.com, Mark E Haedicke@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Bruce Lundstrom/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Deborah Culver@EES cc: Rob Walls/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Vicki Sharp@EES Subject: New Security and Human Rights Policy - Legal Comments Rob has asked me to collect legal department views on the attached statement of principles regarding Security and Human Rights that Enron Corp is considering endorsing. These have been worked out over the past several months by a task force of the US and UK governments, along with representatives of industry (including Enron) and NGOs (including Amesty and Human Rights Watch) under the auspices of Secretary fo State Albright and Foreign Secretary Cook. As a result, we really don't have the ability to change the text, which is fixed. As you know, Enron is very concerned about human rights issues because of their intrinsic value and their community relations impacts.These guidelines would be in addition to the Human Rights Policy Statement the Enron board adopted last year, which really do not touch on security matters as such. I have sent this to each of your since your business units are those that have the most extensive operations in the developing countries in which these issues are of primary concern. (I am separately collecting comments/concerns from within EES and EECC.) The Enron effort on this guideline project has been lead by Lauren Goldblatt of the Corp. PR group. Lauren has run the attached drafts past Mike Hicks and Pete Vandergam at Corp. Security for their views of whether this can be implemented by Enron. We as the legal department have been asked to express our view on are the following: (a) Are there any show stoppers that would argue that Enron should not publicly express its "endorsement" of these polices? (b) If Enron were to express its endorsement of the policy statement, what if any material problems do you think your business line might encounter in implementing the policy? (c) Do you see any unintended practical or legal consequences that might arise from Enron publicly adopting or endorsing this as policy? Please take an hour few hours to read through the materials, or have one of your lawyers do so. You might need to consult with your operation personnel for their practical views as well. I would be grateful if you could express any concerns you may see with the guidelines by November 7 (Wednesday) so that I can coordinate comments and get the responses out. (The deadline for Enron and other companies to express their endorsement of the policy has been extended from the November 8 deadline expressed in the attached to November 15. To allow time for Enron to deal with responses, we have been asked to get our feed back to Lauren by November 8 (Thursday).) You cane-mail your comments or phone them to me at 713-646-6309. If I get suffucient expressions of interest for a conference call by Monday, I will set up a call in number for Wednesday morning US. Thanks, I appreciate your views and comments. ----- Forwarded by John Schwartzenburg/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT on 11/02/2000 02:06 PM ----- Vicki Sharp@EES 10/26/2000 10:26 AM To: John Schwartzenburg/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Deborah Culver, Sarah Gregory/LON/ECT@ECT cc: Lauren Goldblatt/NY/ECT@ECT Subject: Security and Human Rights John, Rob and I have talked and Rob would like you to take the lead on this. Deborah, I need you to work with John S. to see how our international EES business (Europe, Mexico, etc.) might be affected by this and whether we take this position. I am sure Rob and JOhn will have the history and expert opinion as to how this should be handled, and my guess is, this issue primarily affects EECC at this time. Maybe one of the Apache lawyers can take the lead for the traditional EES business. Rob will be in next week and then going out of town and I will pick up for him then. ---------------------- Forwarded by Vicki Sharp/HOU/EES on 10/26/2000 09:56 AM --------------------------- Lauren Goldblatt@ECT 10/25/2000 05:44 PM To: Rob.Walls@enron.com, Vicki.Sharp@enron.com cc: Kelly.Kimberly@enron.net Subject: Security and Human Rights Rob and Vicki: Over the past few months we have participated in an initiative aimed at developing a voluntary set of guidelines governing human rights and security arrangements. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts, review, and sign off on the guidelines. Should we agree to endorse the principles, we must send a letter to the U.S. State Department by November 8, 2000. I have attached a fact sheet as well as the revised principles for your review. The principles and signatories will be announced by Madeline Albright and Secretary Robin Cook in November. Thank you for time and consideration on this. Please do not hesitate to call with any questions. I can be reached either by cell phone (917) 821-0724 or by voicemail at 212-702-3916. Best Regards, Lauren - corp_resp__20_Sept_[2].doc