GN’s Sustainability Statement is reported based on the same consolidation principles as the financial statements, covering all GN divisions, markets, and global levels.

GN’s Sustainability Statement is reported based on the same consolidation principles as the financial statements, covering all GN divisions, markets, and global levels.

Following the materiality assessment and due diligence processes, this Sustainability Statement covers all upstream and downstream value chain activities.

We have identified nine IROs related to workers in the value chain. Overall, all these IROs reflect our dependence for our core activity of manufacturing electronic devices on suppliers in industries with documented negative social impacts, specifically mining, plastic and aluminum production, paper production, freight and logistics, electronics manufacturing, and e-waste treatment. We cannot accurately link the majority of these potential impacts to GN’s activities because they occur in industries that are at tier 2 or beyond supplier level in our upstream value chain. We directly or indirectly have business relations with a very large number of sub-suppliers, in a part of our value chain where we have limited visibility and no direct supplier relationships to leverage an assessment of potential social impacts. For this reason, it is also not possible for these impacts to identify very specific (groups of) people or geographies where GN’s activities lead to impacts. Workers we consider to be at high risk of impact and therefore in scope for this assessment include: Agency workers working on GN sites in countries with weak worker protection controls (this covers agency workers at our manufacturing site in Malaysia). Blue-collar workers working for upstream entities involved in mining, plastic, aluminum and paper production, and electronics manufacturing. Blue-collar workers working for downstream entities involved in freight and distribution, and electronic waste processing.