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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a new business practice that reflects the idea of fulfilling both economical imperatives and social consequences of business. In recent years this topic has spread among businessmen, scientists, politicians, customers and NGOs. The purpose of this paper is to determine and explain the dimensions of CSR while focusing on the environmental issue of the topic. Companies, nowadays, accept their responsibility for the negative environmental impact of their business activities so they try to change the way of doing business in order to mitigate the damage. It is always the question of whether companies are taking CSR action because of the need to act proactively, because of image, or imposed by the law. Methodology of research is based on literature review of European legislation and previous researches about implementation of CSR.