AAK AB

1. Sustainable palm oil policy or commitment for all its operations?

2. Policy or commitment applies to direct and third-party suppliers?

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

The company has a Global CSR Team and a Global CSR Manager who reports to the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) who is a member of the company's Executive Committee.

4. Sustainability report published within last two years?

5. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to improve sustainability in relation to palm oil?

UNGC.

6. Verification report on compliance with POIG Charter, if a POIG member?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

7. Activities with government, NGOs or academic institutions to improve palm oil sustainability?

8. Total land area managed/controlled for oil palm (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

10. Plasma/scheme smallholders planted area (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

11. Unplanted (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

14. Number and names of company owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

17. Maps of estates/management units?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

19. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to mill level?

2018

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

2019

21. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level (above 80%)?

96%

22. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from own mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

23. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from supplier mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

27%

24. Commitment to zero deforestation?

25. Deforestation commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

26. Criteria for defining deforestation?

HCV, HCS, peat.

27. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

The company worked with Proforest to assess deforestation risks using geospatial data around its supplying mills in order to prioritise mills for engagement.

28. Examples of habitat management and/or habitat restoration?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

29. Implementing a landscape-level approach to biodiversity conservation?

30. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

31. Commitment to not endanger species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

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

33. Examples of species conservation activities?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

35. HCV commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

36. Commitment to only use licensed High Conservation Value (HCV) assessors accredited by the HCV Resource Network's Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

37. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for planting undertaken prior to January 2015, and associated management and monitoring plans?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

38. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for all estates planted since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

39. High Conservation Value (HCV) management and monitoring plans for all estates planted since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

40. Satisfactory review of all High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments undertaken since January 2015 by the HCV ALS Quality Panel?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

42. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

The indicator is disabled as not applicable for traders.

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

44. Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) undertaken, and associated management and monitoring plans?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

The company has a commitment to sourcing palm oil that has been produced without destruction of peatland however it defines peat as being over a depth of 50cm or more.

46. Peat commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

48. Landbank or planted area on peat?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

50. Commitment to zero burning?

The company only states "AAK requires that suppliers have a documented commitment on a range of social, environmental, and agronomic areas. Largely these mirror AAK's own commitments, and include things like human rights, deforestation, and no burning for land preparation.".

51. Zero burning commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

52. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

53. Details/number of hotspots/fires in company estates?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

54. Details/number of hotspots/fires within surrounding landscape/smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

The company only states its ambition to reduce net CO2 emissions per processed raw material unit, but does not have a time-bound target.

56. GHG emissions from land use change?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

57. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

The company only states that energy consumption per MT produced decreased by 3.3%.

59. Percentage of mills with methane capture (100%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

60. Time-bound commitment to improve water use per tonne of FFB Processed?

The company only states in its Responsible Sourcing Policy "In areas of high water stress AAK will promote mechanisms to minimize water use".

61. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality (BOD and COD)?

The company only states in its Responsible Sourcing Policy "AAK requires that agricultural practices aim to mitigate degradation of water quality".

62. Progress towards commitment on water use?

The company reports a decrease in water consumption per processed unit in 2017 of 4.4%. The company does not have a time-bound commitment to reduce water use.

63. Progress towards commitment on water quality (BOD and COD)?

64. Protection of natural waterways through buffer zones?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

65. Evidence of treating palm oil mill effluent (POME)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

67. No use of paraquat?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

68. No use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

69. No use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

70. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

72. Commitment to human rights, referencing the UN Declaration of Human Rights or UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?

73. Commitment to human rights applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

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

75. Commitment to respect indigenous and local communities' rights, referencing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or ILO 169?

The company only mentions indigenous and local communities' rights in relation to FPIC.

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

77. FPIC commitment applies to independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

78. Details of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process available?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

79. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

80. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

81. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

82. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

83. Reference to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

The company does not refer to all of the core ILO conventions.

84. Total number of employees?

3399 - Number of employees across all operations in 2017.

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

8.4%

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

The company reports the percentage of female employees for employment categories including management, salaried and hourly-paid, as well as by region.

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

The company commits to pay minimum wage but no evidence is given.

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

0.8 - The company reports a Lost Time Injury Rate (number of work injuries that result in one or more days of sick leave per 200,000 working hours) for its production sites.

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

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

92. Member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)?

2004

93. Submitted most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

94. Listed all countries and regions in which operates in most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

95. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of estates within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of estates?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

96. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/associated smallholders within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of scheme/associated smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

97. Year expected to achieve 100% RSPO certification of all palm product processing facilities?

2017

98. RSPO-certified within three years of joining the RSPO or by November 2010, for companies joining prior to finalisation of the RSPO certification systems in November 2007?

2010 - The company became an RSPO member in 2004.

99. Percentage of mills RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

100. Percentage of area (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

101. Percentage of scheme/associated smallholders (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

102. Percentage of FFB supply (tonnes) from independent FFB suppliers that is RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

103. Percentage of all palm oil and oil palm products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that are RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

32.6%

104. Sells or processes/trades RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

Mass Balance, Book and Claim, Segregated, Identity Preserved.

105. Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certified (100%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

106. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

107. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme (e.g. ISCC, SAN, RSB, etc.)?

The company has ISO 14001 certification and organic certification.

108. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

109. Number or percentage of scheme smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

110. Programme to support independent smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

111. Number or percentage of independent smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

The company is working with Proforest to determine priority suppliers for engagement. Activities include outreach workshops to mills, technical training and mill-level verification visits.

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

The company states "If AAK becomes aware of a supplier violating or breaching AAK's Code of Conduct for Raw Material Suppliers or these policy commitments, AAK will take appropriate action to investigate the issue within the framework of our grievance process, and will seek to work with the supplier to resolve it. If no adequate resolution can be found, AAK will terminate commercial relations with the supplier" but no timeframes are given.

114. Percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company requirements?

The company gives the percentage of suppliers for the following categories: Direct engagement (volumes from suppliers engaged in sustainability programs with AAK/Proforest); Indirect engagement (volumes from suppliers with own sustainability programs - approved by Proforest); Not engaged (higher priority); Not engaged (lower priority).

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

The company has a whistleblowing function, but limited details are given on the process and it does not report how whistleblowers are protected.

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

118. Grievance or complaints system is accessible to internal and external stakeholders?

119. Details of grievances disclosed?