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Tabelle zur Einhaltung des NaDiVeG (English only)

NaDiVeG compliance table: Disclosures pursuant to section 267a UGB

Issue Concept description Risks for external stakeholders and environment Risks for Lenzing Due diligence/measures for handling risks Results

Respect for human rights

  • Policy on Human Rights and Labor Standards
  • Code of Conduct
  • FSC® certification
  • Better Growth Strategy
  • Sustainability Policy
  • Risks of non-compliance with human rights might affect employees of suppliers – especially in forestry
  • Health and safety risks for the supply chain
  • Risks of discrimination
  • Legal and compliance risk
  • Fines
  • Lawsuits
  • Reputation loss
  • Whistleblower System
  • Works council
  • Supplier assessment to mitigate supply chain risks
  • Policy on Human Rights and Labor Standards
  • No cases of human rights abuses. 100 percent of the total workforce is represented by local unions or works councils (voluntary basis). No strikes at any Lenzing production facility in 2023.

Own workforce

Workers in the value chain

Combating of corruption and bribery

  • Code of Conduct
  • Whistleblower Directive
  • Anti-Bribery and Corruption Directive
  • Supply chain risk for Lenzing’s customers
  • Risks concerning corruption and bribery may affect the societies of countries where Lenzing operates in a negative way.
  • Legal and compliance risk
  • Business damage
  • Reputation loss
  • Fines
  • Lawsuits
  • Whistleblowing System
  • Compliance trainings
  • Enforcement
  • Reporting to the audit committee of the supervisory board twice a year
  • Supplier assessment to mitigate supply chain risks
  • No cases of corruption in 2023
  • No significant fines or non-monetary sanctions were imposed as a result of legal infringements or breaches of regulations in 2023.

Business conduct

Affected communities

Diversity

  • Better Growth Strategy
  • Policy on Human Rights and Labor Standards
  • Code of Conduct
  • Discrimination of gender, cultural background, age and further diversity aspects
  • Mental health risks for employees
  • Compliance risk
  • Reputation loss
  • Grievance mechanism through works council
  • Diversity concept

Own workforce

Business conduct

Social (employees)

  • Better Growth Strategy
  • Sustainability Strategy
  • Sustainability Policy
  • Works council / trade union at all sites
  • Policy for Safety, Health and Environment
  • Life-long learning program
  • Whistleblower Directive
  • Global Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy
  • Safety and health risks for employees and supervised workers
  • Negative effects on employee development, communities and value chain partners
  • Risk of infectious disease
  • Reputation loss
  • Negative impact on employer branding
  • Difficult recruitment
  • High employee turnover
  • Loss of know-how and lack of competence
  • Lawsuits
  • Whistleblower System
  • SHEARS platform
  • Safety trainings
  • Health infrastructure at all sites
  • Specific regional events for employees
  • Work Councils/ Trade Unions
  • Five sites audited by Higg FSLM: good results

Own workforce

Business conduct

Social (society)

  • Compliance with applicable laws
  • Sustainability Strategy (focus area community wellbeing)
  • Sustainability Policy
  • Whistleblower Directive
  • Health and safety risks for local communities
  • Environmental risks
  • Supply chain risks for Lenzing’s downstream customers
  • Violation of human and indigenous rights such as displacement or suppression of freedom of speech through the value chain
  • Communities around production sites or their food and water resources can negatively affected
  • Reputation loss
  • Lawsuits
  • Business damage
  • Whistleblower System
  • Community activities at production sites
  • No significant fines or non-monetary sanctions were imposed as a result of legal infringements or breaches of regulations in 2023.

Business conduct

Affected communities

Workers in the value chain

Environment

  • Sustainability Strategy
  • Sustainability Policy
  • Policy for Safety, Health and Environment
  • Policy for Wood and Pulp
  • Sourcing of certified or controlled wood
  • Bioenergy Policy
  • Group sustainability targets
  • Science-based targets
  • ISO management systems
  • Enterprise Excellence (EPEX)
  • Risks of negative effects on the ecological systems of forests of suppliers and water bodies
  • Risks of high contribution to climate change through own emissions to air
  • Risks of substance leakage
  • Lack of availability of wood due to climate change
  • Any climate-related disruption in one of the production sites will influence the business model and its success
  • Reputation loss
  • Lawsuits
  • Business damage
  • Regulatory risks (increased costs for CO2-emissions, stronger regulations concerning environmental laws)
  • Afforestation project starting in 2018
  • Higg FEM 3.0
  • Supplier assessment to mitigate supply chain risks
  • Lenzing Enterprise Excellence Program for continuous improvement (EPEX)
  • Applying voluntary benchmarks, such as the EU Ecolabel
  • Management of climate-related risks and opportunities (TCFD)
  • Reporting on CDP Climate, Forests and Water
  • Roadmaps of group level and of site level targets
  • Science-based targets

2050: net-zero GHG emissions by 2050

2030: absolute GHG emissions reductions in scope 1 and 2 by 42 percent and in scope 3 by 25 percent

  • Ranked second in Canopy’s Hot Button Report
  • Higg FEM results better than industry average
  • CDP ‘Triple A’ rating
  • Environmental management system according to ISO 14001:2015
  • Certificates: ISO 14001:2015, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001
  • EcoVadis Platinum status
  • SAC Higg MSI: better scores for Lenzing’s products compared to industry average (e.g. TENCEL™ Lyocell)
  • Lenzing contributing to leading multi-stakeholder initiatives (SAC, ZDHC, EU-BAT)

Business conduct

Affected communities

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