Principle 1:
Protecting human rights | - Anchoring Social Charter topics in internal audits
- Entry into the BME Compliance Initiative
- Optimizing supplier management
| EC5, LA4, LA6-9, LA13-14, HR1-9, SO5, PR1-2, PR8 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Goals Products |
Principle 2:
Ruling out human rights abuses | - Anchoring Social Charter topics in internal audits
- Entry into the BME Compliance Initiative
- Optimizing supplier management
| HR1-9, SO5 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Goals Products |
Principle 3:
Upholding the freedom of association | - Anchoring Social Charter topics in internal audits
- Euroforum activities
- Entry into the BME Compliance Initiative
- Optimizing supplier management
| LA4-5, HR1-3, HR5, SO5 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Goals Products,
Labor-management-relation,
Data & Facts, Employees |
Principle 4:
Elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor | - Entry into the BME Compliance Initiative
- Optimizing supplier management
| HR1-3, HR7, SO5 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Goals Products,
Labor-management-relation |
Principle 5:
Abolition of child labor | - Entry into the BME Compliance Initiative
- Optimizing supplier management
| HR1-3, HR6, SO5 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Data & Facts, Employees |
Principle 6:
Elimination of discrimination | - Anchoring Social Charter topics in internal audits
- Corporate goal to increase the percentage of women in management positions
| EC7, LA2, LA13-14, HR1-4, SO5 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Diversity,
Goals Employees |
Principle 7:
Precautionary approach to environmental challenges | - Group certificate to ISO 14001
- Process safety/Plant safety
- Measures to ensure product safety (e.g. REACH, GHS, Global Product Strategy)
| EC2, EN18, EN26, N30, SO5 | Management approach for products,
Product safety,
Management approach |
Principle 8:
Initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility | - Climate protection program “EDISON“
- Performing energy-conservation audits
- CO2 reduction target: 20% less compared with 2006
- Energy waste recovery
| EN1-30, SO5, PR3-4 | Energy use
Material and waste |
Principle 9:
Diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies | - Energy-saving liquid crystal displays
- Energy-saving lighting materials for LEDs and OLEDs
- New electrolytes for battery technology
- Organic photovoltaics
- Exploring nanotech applications
| EN2, EN5-7, EN10, EN18, EN26-27, EN30, SO5 | Nanotechnology,
Innovative products |
Principle 10:
Anti-corruption measures | - Expanding the global Compliance network
- Speak-up line
- Code of Conduct training courses
- Performing internal audits
- Optimizing supplier management
- Setting up ”Compliance Risk Monitoring & Reporting“
| SO2-6 | Compliance,
Supplier management,
Goals Products |
