The targets have been set directly relating to value chain workers, such as aiming to reduce negative or advancing positive impacts, or to manage our material risks and opportunities. We have defined a process for setting targets relating to human rights due diligence, but we have not engaged directly with value chain workers, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies, in setting them, nor in tracking the performance, or in identifying lessons or improvement as a result of our performance. Moving into 2025, we also plan to undertake a comprehensive review of these policy areas to understand any applicable targets that can be set in relation to workers in the value chain. GN’s overall ambition in this sphere reflects our drive to strengthen our due diligence processes and efforts in tracking effectiveness to monitor our progress connected to impacts on value chain workers.

GN addresses relevant concerns and grievances because of impacts on workers in their value chain. They continuously improve ways of working to identify situations where actions may have caused or contributed to a negative impact and how to support affected workers with suitable remediation. GN outlines expectations about grievance mechanisms being available to all workers in the value chain as part of their Supplier Code of Conduct. Their due diligence approach seeks to achieve that suppliers' processes relating to grievance and any limitations in their ability to effectively identify cases where workers are impacted negatively are addressed. GN cooperates with suppliers on other human rights issues to improve their work with instituting effective remedies. GN's whistleblower hotline is available to all employees, external parties, and value chain workers, ensuring confidentiality and addressing concerns in a fair manner.