Our strong collaboration with suppliers enables us to consistently deliver quality products in scale and thus ensure timely delivery throughout our value chain. In our Hearing Aids business area, we have deepened this collaboration by integrating sustainability into our partnerships through our supplier engagement programme. The programme’s objective is to collaborate more closely with suppliers on decarbonisation and address human rights impacts in our supply chain. We continuously take steps to gain insight into the perspectives of the impacts of our operations on workers in our value chain. Currently, supplier engagement does not involve direct engagement with workers in the value chain. In 2024, we established an updated and more extensive sustainability supplier risk assessment process to identify and document the potential impacts that workers in our supply chain are exposed to, based on the countries and sectors in which the workers of our suppliers operate. The risk assessment process is based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis, using recognised databases, indices and reports.