Global Compact

Progress report on the implementation of the principles of the Global Compact

With our support of the United Nations Global Compact, we want to raise standards in the fields of human rights, labor rights and environmental protection. In the year covered by the Report, one of the main activities centered on cooperating with suppliers in India and China to strengthen human rights. Another related to the propagation of technical innovations to reduce CO₂ emissions. The following table shows which of the policies, programs and management systems already introduced at Bayer support the ten principles of the Global Compact, what practical measures we took last year in this respect, and to what extent we were able to register concrete achievements or results in the period under review. Information on the Global Compact can be found at http://www.unglobalcompact.org/.

	Systems	Measures	Achievements
Principle 1: Support of human rights	Human Rights Position Procurement Community Policy	Health care programs in the world‘s poorest countries	Presentation of a human rights policy throughout the Bayer Group
Principle 2: Exclusion of human rights violations	Supplier Relationship Management System Human Rights Position	Monitoring of the 143 most important suppliers in non-OECD countries	Prevention of child labor among Indian cotton seed suppliers
Principle 3: Observance of the right of workers and employers to freedom of association	Group Works Council Bayer European Forum Human Rights Position	Careful encouragement of freedom of speech in China while observing the legal regulations	Successful cooperation with employee representatives, e.g. in the Schering takeover
Principle 4: Abolition of all forms of forced labor	Human Rights Position Supplier Relationship Management System	No measures necessary
Principle 5: Abolition of child labor	Supplier Relationship Management System Human Rights Position	Incentives and control system for suppliers in India	Prevention of child labor among Indian cotton seed suppliers
Principle 6: Elimination of discrimination	Social Charter Human Rights Position	Fair procedures in Schering integration	Implementation of a HR Governance Code for all employees in China
Principle 7: Precautionary environmental protection	Bayer Sustainability Check HSEQ management systems	e.g. restructuring of Bayer Sustainability Check	e.g. increasing the number of production sites with certified HSE management systems
Principle 8: Specific commitment to environmental protection	Group Sustainability Program	e.g. support of 24 suppliers in the Philippines with the introduction of integrated social and environmental management systems	e.g. further reduction in specific CO₂ emissions
Principle 9: Diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies	Core business of BMS and BIS	e.g. introduction of energy-saving oxygen depolarized cathode (ODC) technology for chlorine production in Dormagen (Germany), also in China	e.g. reduction of the mercury content in flue gases by 99.9 percent using a new process in BIS facilities
Principle 10: Measures to fight corruption	Conduct code	2007 – the year of anticorruption	“Transparency International Mexico” study gives Bayer top results

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