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NaDiVeG compliance table

NaDiVeG compliance table

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 % of the total workforce is represented by local unions or works councils (voluntary basis). No strikes at any Lenzing production facility in 2022.
Human rights & fair labour practices

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
  • Whistleblower 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 2022
  • No significant fines or non-monetary sanctions were imposed as a result of legal infringements or breaches of regulations in 2022.
Business ethics

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

Human rights & fair labour practices
Business ethics

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
  • Safety and health risks for employees and supervised workers
  • Negative effects on employee development, communities and value chain partners
  • Risk of infectious disease like COVID-19
  • 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
  • Improvement of lost workday cases and injury rate over the last years
Health & safety
Human rights & fair labour practices
Business ethics

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
  • 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 2022.
Human rights & fair labour practices
Business ethics
Annex
Key performance indicators

Environment

  • Sustainability Strategy
  • Sustainability Policy
  • Policy for Safety, Health and Environment
  • Policy for Wood and Pulp
  • Group Sustainability targets
  • Science-based target
  • 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
  • Net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050
  • On track with targets
  • Ranked first in Canopy’s Hot Button Report
  • 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. TENCE™ Lyocell)
  • Lenzing contributing to leading multi-stakeholder initiatives (SAC, ZDHC, EU-BAT)
Raw material security
Sustainable innovations & products
Climate & energy
Biodiversity & ecosystems

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