HAGL Group

1. Sustainable natural rubber policy or commitment for all its operations?

The company only has general commitments which cover limited environmental issues.

2. Sustainable natural rubber policy or commitment applies to all suppliers?

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

4. One or more members within the board of the company have responsibility for sustainability?

5. Percentage or number of women in senior management team?

35% - The company reports that the female executives account for over 35%.

6. Percentage or number of women board members?

50% - The company has six board members, out of which three are women. However, the gender balance is not directly reported by the company and was calculated from staff profiles and photos.

7. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to reduce negative environmental or social outcomes associated with natural rubber production?

8. Collaboration with stakeholders to reduce negative environmental or social outcomes associated with natural rubber production?

9. Sustainability report published within last two years?

The sustainability report is published as a part of the annual report, however, the information is not very detailed.

10. Reports through standardised reporting systems?

11. Climate risks assessment available?

12. Lists countries and operations?

Plantations (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), processing (Laos).

13. Lists countries sourcing from?

14. Total land area managed/controlled for natural rubber (ha)?

15. Total natural rubber planted area (ha)?

30525 - The company reports the total planted area for natural rubber as 30,525 ha.

16. Scheme smallholders/outgrowers planted area (ha)?

17. Unplanted area (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

18. Conservation set-aside area, including HCV area (ha)?

19. Maps of estates/management units?

20. Management plans for natural rubber production are available for all estates/management units?

21. Monitoring of management plan implementation available for all estates/management units?

22. Maps of scheme/outgrower smallholders?

23. Names and locations of all third-party supplying industrial estates/management units?

24. List of jurisdictions where sourcing from smallholders?

25. Number of company owned natural rubber processing facilities?

1 - The company reports to operate a rubber latex processing factory in Laos, however, the information is over two years old.

26. Names and locations of company owned natural rubber processing facilities?

27. Number (or percentage) of company-owned processing facilities that source from company-owned operations and third parties?

28. Reports total volumes (or percentages) sourced by company-owned processing facilities that come from company's own operations and third-parties?

29. Number of third party supplying processing facilities?

30. Names and locations of all third party supplying processing facilities?

31. Number (or percentage) of third party supplying processing facilities that source from their own plantations and third party plantations?

32. Reports total volume (or percentages) sourced from third-party supplying processing facilities that come from the supplying facilities' own operations and third parties?

33. Total volume (or percentage) sourced for manufacturing that comes from intermediary traders rather than directly from processing facilities?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not operate manufacturing facilities.

34. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to processing facility level?

35. Percentage of supply traceable to processing facility level?

36. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to industrial plantation level?

37. Percentage of supply from own processing facilities traceable to industrial plantation level?

38. Percentage of supply from third-party processing facilities traceable to industrial plantation level?

39. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to jurisdictional level for smallholders?

40. Percentage of supply from own processing facilities traceable to smallholder at jurisdictional level?

41. Percentage of supply from third party processing facilities traceable to smallholders at jurisdictional level?

42. Member of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR)?

43. Submitted self-declaration form for the Sustainable Natural Rubber Initiative (SNR-i)?

44. Percentage area (ha) FSC certified?

45. Time-bound plan for achieving FSC FM certification of estates/management units?

46. Percentage of scheme/outgrower smallholders (ha) FSC-certified?

47. Time-bound plan for achieving FSC certification of scheme/outgrower smallholders?

48. Percentage of natural rubber supply (tonnes) from independent smallholders/outgrowers/third-party natural rubber suppliers that is FSC-certified?

49. Percentage of all natural rubber products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that is FSC-certified?

50. Percentage area (ha) PEFC certified (excluding FSC certified area)?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not operate in a country with a PEFC-endorsed Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) standard.

51. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme?

52. Commitment to become 100% certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme?

53. Commitment to zero conversion of natural ecosystems?

54. Commitment to zero conversion of natural ecosystems applies to all suppliers?

55. Commitment to zero deforestation?

56. Commitment to zero deforestation applies to all suppliers?

57. Criteria and cut-off date for defining deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion?

58. Criteria and cut-off date for defining deforestation in supplier operations?

59. Evidence of monitoring deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion?

60. Evidence of monitoring deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion in supplier operations?

61. Amount of deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion recorded in own operations since cut-off date?

62. Amount of deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion recorded in supplier operations since cut-off date?

63. Commitment to restoration of deforestation/conversion?

64. Commitment to restoration of deforestation/conversion applies to all suppliers?

65. Implementing a landscape or jurisdictional level approach?

66. Biodiversity policy?

67. Biodiversity policy applies to all suppliers?

68. Identified species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

69. Examples of species and/or habitat conservation management?

70. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species?

71. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species applies to all suppliers?

72. Commitment to protect areas from illegal activities?

73. Commitment to protect forest areas from illegal activities applies to all suppliers?

74. Evidence of protecting forest areas from illegal activities?

75. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments?

76. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments applies to all suppliers?

77. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments available for all new plantings since 1st April 2019?

78. High Conservation Value (HCV) management and monitoring plans available for all new plantings since 1st April 2019?

79. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach?

80. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach applies to all suppliers?

81. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments available?

82. Peer review of all High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments undertaken since April 2015 by the HCSA Quality Assurance Process?

83. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs)?

84. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) applies to all suppliers?

85. Social and environmental impact assessment (SEIAs) undertaken, and associated management and monitoring plans?

86. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

87. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth applies to all suppliers?

88. Landbank or planted area on peat (ha)?

89. Implementation of commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

90. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat?

91. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat applies to all suppliers?

92. Evidence of best management practices for soils and peat?

The company mentions only one practice, the Israeli irrigation technique, which it implements to protect soils from erosion and pollution. The information is not externally verified.

93. Commitment to best/sustainable tapping practices?

94. Commitment to best/sustainable tapping practices applies to all suppliers?

95. Evidence of best/sustainable tapping practices?

96. Commitment to zero burning?

97. Commitment to zero burning applies to all suppliers?

98. Evidence of fire monitoring and management?

The company only states it provides fire prevention and firefighting training, however details are limited.

99. Details/number of hotspots/fires in company estates/management units?

100. Details/number of hotspots/fires in suppliers operations/jurisdictions?

101. Time-bound commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity?

102. GHG emissions intensity?

103. GHG emissions from land use change?

104. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

105. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

106. Time-bound commitment to improve water use intensity?

107. Water use intensity?

108. Progress towards commitment on water use intensity?

109. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality (BOD or COD)?

110. Progress towards commitment on water quality (BOD or COD)?

111. Treatment of effluents from processing facilities?

The company states it treats wastewater from the factory, however the information reported in not externally verified.

112. Treatment of effluents from manufacturing facilities?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not operate manufacturing facilities.

113. Commitment to protect natural waterways through buffer zones?

114. Implementation of commitment to protect natural waterways through buffer zones?

115. Reducing odours from natural rubber processing or manufacuring facilities?

116. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers?

The company promulgates regulations on utilization of chemicals committing to use chemicals as per law, place maximum limit of the use of pesticides and chemical products. However, no commitment to progressively minimise usage could be found.

117. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers, applies to all suppliers?

118. Commitment to no use of paraquat?

119. Commitment to no use of paraquat applies to all suppliers?

120. Commitment to no use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

121. Commitment to no use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides applies to all suppliers?

122. Commitment to no use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

123. Commitment to no use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention applies to all suppliers?

124. Chemical usage per ha or list of chemicals used?

125. Implementation of commitment to minimise inorganic fertiliser usage?

126. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

The company only mentions IPM and that it provides training on this, however no details are given on how IPM is implemented.

127. Commitment to human rights?

128. Commitment to human rights applies to all suppliers?

129. Progress on human rights commitment ?

130. Commitment to respect Indigenous and local communities' rights?

131. Commitment to indigenous and local communities' rights applies to all suppliers?

132. Commitment to respect legal and customary land tenure rights?

133. Commitment to legal and customary land rights applies to all suppliers?

134. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)?

135. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) applies to all suppliers?

136. Details on Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process available?

137. Examples of local stakeholder engagement to prevent conflicts?

138. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

139. Supports the inclusion of women across natural rubber operations, including addressing barriers faced?

140. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

141. Progress on commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

142. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

The company commits to provide essential community services and facilities.

143. Progress on commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

The company reports multiple examples of providing essential community services and facilities. However, examples are from 2017.

144. Commitment to provide business/work opportunities for local communities?

The company reports its commitment to provide work opportunities for local communities.

145. Commitment to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

146. Commitment to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles applies to all suppliers?

147. Progress on commitment to respect all workers' rights?

148. Commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment?

The company reports its commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment.

149. Commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment applies to all suppliers?

150. Progress on commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment?

151. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

440 - The company reports that in 2021, it recorded total employment of 2,448 people, of which 440 were indirect workers.

152. Percentage or number of women employees?

40% - The company has reported 40% of women in its workforce.

153. Commitment to pay a living wage?

154. Commitment to pay a living wage applies to all suppliers?

155. Progress on commitment to pay a living wage?

156. Reporting of salary by gender?

157. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

The company commits to address health and safety at work for all workers.

158. Commitment to address occupational health and safety applies to all suppliers?

159. Provision of personal protective equipment and related training?

160. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

161. Number of fatalities as a result of work-based accidents?

162. Commitment to support smallholders?

163. Percentage of supply from smallholders?

164. Programme to support scheme smallholders/outgrowers?

165. Percentage of scheme smallholders/outgrowers involved in programme?

166. Programme to support independent smallholders?

167. Percentage of independent smallholders involved in programme?

168. Process used to engage smallholder suppliers on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

169. Number or percentage of smallholder suppliers engaged on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

170. Process used to prioritise, assess and/or engage non-smallholder suppliers on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

171. Number or percentage of non-smallholder suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

172. Suspension or exclusion criteria for non-smallholder suppliers?

173. Time-bound action plans (including Key Performance Indicators) for suppliers to be in compliance with natural rubber sourcing commitments?

174. Proportion of direct and indirect supply from third-parties that comes from natural rubber plantations which are compliant with natural rubber sourcing policies?

175. Percentage of supply coming from agroforestry?

176. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

177. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption applies to all suppliers?

178. Progress on commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

179. Disclosure of the company’s management approach to tax and payments to governments?

180. Whistleblowing procedure?

181. Own grievance or complaints system open to all stakeholders?