To ensure our decisions and activities are informed by the perspectives of value chain workers, we engage proactively with them and their representatives, including trade unions. The outcome of this engagement directly informs our strategies for identifying, assessing, and addressing actual and potential impacts on workers. Through this collaborative process, we work to uphold fair labour practices and to foster safe, dignified, and inclusive work environments across our operations and partnerships.

Policy monitoring is generally conducted through external risk ratings, controversy reports, and adherence to the minimum safeguards of the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, which are also subject to limited assurance by our external auditors. We are currently not able to fully assess our full value chain for instances of non-respect for these principles, besides the indications from our external risk ratings and controversy reports, which have not identified any material incidents. We aim to maintain transparency by documenting any reported cases that come to our attention related to human rights impacts involving workers in the value chain, whether in our operations or within our upstream and downstream value chain.