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title: "Assessing Minimum Safeguards"
description: "In the Minimum Safeguards workspace, you can fill out a questionnaire for your reporting entity assessing whether your reporting entity meets the minimum safeguards criteria, i.e. essential international guidelines, focusing on four core standards: \nOECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises\nUN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights\nILO Fundamental Conventions\nThe International Bill of Human Rights."
source_url: https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/esg-reporting/collect-data-esgrep/collect-eut-data/minimum-safeguards
language: en
last_updated: 2023-08-16
---
# Assessing Minimum Safeguards

## Overview

In the **Minimum Safeguards** workspace, you can fill out a questionnaire for your reporting entity assessing whether your reporting entity meets the minimum safeguards criteria, i.e. essential international guidelines, focusing on four core standards:

- **OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises**
- **UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights**
- **ILO Fundamental Conventions**
- **The International Bill of Human Rights**.

Confirming your reporting entity's alignment with these standards is an essential step to ensure the **alignment with the EU Taxonomy** for any business activity related to your reporting entity.

## Completing the Minimum Safeguards Questionnaire

Proceed as follows to assess whether your reporting entity meets the minimum safeguards criteria:

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Navigate to the **Minimum Safeguards** workspace.
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Navigate to the desired ESG report and click your reporting entity. The questionnaire is displayed as follows:

Minimum safeguards questionnaire

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Answer all questions and provide an explanation, if necessary.

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## Impact of Questionnaire

After having completed the questionnaire, the ESG Reporting solution automatically assesses whether the minimum safeguards criteria have been met. The following options are possible:

| Option | Description |
|---------|---------|
| All questions have been answered with **Yes** | The minimum safeguards criteria **have been met** for this reporting entity. |
| At least one question has been answered with **No** | The minimum safeguards criteria **have not been met** for this reporting entity. |
| Questions have been answered **partially** or not yet | The assessment of the minimum safeguards for this reporting entity **is in progress**. |

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The status of the minimum safeguards assessment is automatically updated and displayed:

- On the **Minimum Safeguards** overview page
- On the business activity overview page of your reporting entity in the **Reports and Activities** workspace

Status message on minimum safeguards assessment in business activity overview
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