M.P. Evans Group plc

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

The company only generally commits to sustainability, no policies could be found.

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

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

The Group's chief executive takes the lead in setting policy on sustainability. The Group has a dedicated sustainability manager based in Jakarta supported by dedicated field staff resident on the Group's estates.

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?

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 and/or NGOs to improve palm oil sustainability?

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

52018.5 - Previously the company reported a total landbank for palm oil cultivation as 83,626 in its 2015 ACOP.

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

34281 - The company also reports on its website a planted area of 36,272 ha to include smallholders as of Dec 2016.

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

8863.66 - Sum of certified and uncertified scheme smallholder areas. The company also reports that all smallholder schemes cover 11,814 ha of which 8,865 ha is planted.

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

5927 - The company also reports on its website an unplanted area of 8,851 ha that includes smallholders.

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

2946.86 - Sum of HCV areas and other conservation areas.

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

4656.14 - The company states it has 7,603 ha of infrastructure/conservation areas - the conservation area of 2946.86 ha reported in the 2016 RSPO ACOP has been subtracted to calculate the area for infrastructure.

14. Number of company owned mills?

3

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

Coordinates are provided for all three mills.

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

This indicator is disabled because they do not have supplier mills.

17. Maps of estates/management units?

The company has an interactive map on its website, but it does not show the location of estates in detail. Some of the company's concessions are available on Global Forest Watch. The company is not on a list of non-submitters of maps to the RSPO. However, ZSL is currently unable to ascertain if the maps disclosed constitute 100% of the company's palm oil estates. Maps will become available on GeoRSPO.

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. Commitment to address deforestation?

25. Commitment to zero deforestation?

The company only states that it believes its adherence to the RSPO P&C does not cause any deforestation.

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

The commitment applies to smallholder schemes, but not stated that applies to suppliers.

27. Criteria for defining deforestation?

The company only undertakes new plantation development in heavily-degraded areas and in areas that do not have High Conservation Value (HCV). The company elsewhere states it does not develop virgin forest.

28. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

29. Commitment to set aside areas for conservation?

30. Evidence of habitat management and/or habitat restoration?

The company states 'planting of jungle trees and other environmentally suitable plants is undertaken' in conservation areas.

31. A landscape-level approach?

32. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

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

The company states it ensures any new plantation development is only in heavily degraded areas that is not suitable habitat for endangered species and that it ensures it does not endanger any species of conservation concern, referencing the IUCN Red List.

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

35. Commitment not to operate within internationally and nationally designated protected areas?

36. Evidence of species conservation activities?

37. Commitment to High Conservation Value (HCV) approach?

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

The commitment applies to scheme smallholders but not independent suppliers.

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

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

There is public availability of the following HCV assessments:

South Sumatra: PT Evans Lestari; Bangka Belitung Island: PT Gunung Pelawan Lestari; East Kalimantan: PT Prima Mitrajaya Mandiri; PT Teguh Jayaprima Abadi.

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

The company only states all planting since beginning of 2015 has had an HCV assessment, but the documents are not publicly available.

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

The company only states all planting since beginning of 2015 has had an HCV assessment, but the documents are not publicly available.

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

44. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) approach?

45. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

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

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

There is public availability of the following SEIA assessments:
South Sumatra: PT Evans Lestari
Bangka Belitung Island: PT Gunung Pelawan Lestari
East Kalimantan: PT Prima Mitrajaya Mandiri ; PT Teguh Jayaprima Abadi.

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

The company states it will does not plant on peat as assessed under Indonesian regulation No. 14 / Permentan / PL.110 / 2/2009 on Peat Land Use Guidelines for Palm Oil Cultivation, which allows for peat to be cultivated if less than 3m over at least 70% of the total cultivated area.

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

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

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

An independent valuation states that some of the estates are on peat, although the hectarage is not given.

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

The company only details best management practices for soils.

53. Commitment to zero burning?

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

The company states it applies the same standards to smallholder schemes.

55. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

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

The company states it is not aware of any fires on or near its estates since 2005.

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

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

59. GHG commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

60. GHG emissions?

61. GHG emissions from land use change?

62. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

RSPO Palm GHG Calculator and ISCC 205 tool.

63. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions?

64. Percentage of mills with methane capture (is above 75%)?

2 (66.7%)

65. Time-bound commitment to improve water use?

66. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality?

The company only states it regularly monitors water quality and does not discharge effluent into water courses.

67. Progress towards commitment on water use?

68. Progress towards commitment on water quality?

69. Protection of natural waterways through buffer zones?

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

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

The company states that IPM minimises the need for chemical baits and compost from effluent reduces the need for inorganic fertilisers, but it does not have a clear commitment to minimise the use of chemicals.

72. No use of paraquat?

The company states it is committed to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of paraquat once effective alternatives have been trialled in its estates, but does not state a time-bound plan.

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

The company states it does not use any pesticides listed by World Health Organisation, except for Brodifacoum (Class 1A) and Coumatetralyl (Class 1B).

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

75. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

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

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

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

The company states that security of land tenure is of fundamental concern, that it has obtained all necessary licenses for land and compensates smallholders, and that it ensures both legal and customary rights are fully taken into account.

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

The company states it respects the rights of communities and indigenous groups, but does not refer to any international convention on such rights.

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

The company only states it works to ensure individuals giving up land do so freely and only after they fully understand what is being given up. However, the company does commit to FPIC for NPP under RSPO.

81. FPIC commitment applies to independent suppliers?

82. Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process?

83. Process for addressing land conflicts?

84. Commitment to ensure food security for local communities?

85. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

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

The company only refers to collective bargaining.

87. Total number of employees?

4377 - In 2016.

88. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

89. Percentage or number of women employees?

27%

90. Minimum wage that the company pays?

91. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

92. Lost time accident rate?

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

0 - During 2016 amongst its workforce or contractors working on its estates.

94. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

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

2006

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

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

The company only states that it operates in: Indonesia (Aceh, East Kalimantan, Bangka-Belitung, South Sumatra, North Sumatra). It did not state that it operates in Peninsular Malaysia where it has 70 ha of plantation land.

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

2024 - The time-bound plan was extended from 2015 to 2016 and then further extended to 2024 - this is over five years away. However, on their website the company states its policy is to achieve RSPO certification within 18 months of commencing operation.

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

2021 - The company gives a target of 2021 for scheme smallholders and 2024 for associated smallholders.

100. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of all supply chains?

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

101. 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?

2012

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

2 (66.7%)

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

28136.9 (54%)

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

67357 (73%) - FFB volume supplied by scheme smallholders that is certified divided by total FFB volume that is supplied by scheme smallholders. The company also reports that 4,356.66 ha are certified out of a total of 8,863.66 ha = 49%.

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

0 (0%)

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

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

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

Book & Claim, Mass Balance.

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

The company states ISPO certification has been received for two mills, and its third mill is in the final stages of audit and accreditation.

109. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified (100%)?

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

The company states ISCC certification has been received for two mills.

111. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

112. Details of support programme for scheme smallholders?

The company states it provides finance on loans to develop plantations and facilitates obtaining bank finance.

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

The company details the number of cooperative schemes and total number of cooperative members.

114. Programme to support independent smallholders?

115. Details of support programme for independent smallholders?

The company only states it is working to improve the overall understanding of sustainability.

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

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

118. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

119. Number or percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged?

120. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

121. Whistleblowing procedure?

122. Own grievance or complaints system?

123. Grievance system accessible to internal stakeholders (i.e. employees)?

124. Grievance system accessible to external stakeholders?

125. Details of grievances disclosed?