Supplier Code of Conduct
1. Introduction
LEDlight Denmark wish to act responsibly and to run
our business in a sustainable and responsible way.
We follow the internationally agreed core principles on human rights,
environment, and anti-corruption. This enables us to identify, prevent or
mitigate and account for any adverse impacts on human rights, environment and
anti-corruption occurring as a result of our own activities, or through the
operations of our business relationships.
Our suppliers play a central role in our mission to develop more sustainable
and responsible business practices. As such, we expect our suppliers to also
run their operation in a responsible way and to manage adverse impacts on human
rights, environment and anti-corruption within their business.
This Code of Conduct provides the foundation for our continuous collaboration
with our suppliers on their ethical, social, and environmental performance.
2. Our expectation
We follow applicable regulations wherever we operate.
In the same way, we expect our suppliers to keep updated on and follow all
applicable national and international laws and regulations and to comply with
the international principles for sustainable and responsible business conduct.
In line with our own ambitions, we expect that, at a minimum, our suppliers
address:
- negative impacts on human rights stated in the International Bill of Human Rights, including the core labour rights (ILO)
- negative impacts on the environment in relations to areas addressed by the EU Taxonomy, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including the climate as reflected in the Paris Agreement
- issues related to corruption, as outlined by the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Moreover, we expect our suppliers to ask their
respective suppliers to demonstrate responsible business conduct in relation to
social, environmental, and economic sustainability too.
The following highlights are specific examples of minimum expectations of
supplier performance.
3. Human Rights including Labour Rights
At LEDlight Denmark we run our business in a
responsible way and follow the internationally agreed core principles on human
and labour rights.
The principles are made operational through the UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
In line with our own ambitions, we expect our suppliers to:
- have due diligence processes in place to identify, prevent or mitigate and account for actual and potential impacts on human and labour rights, as outlined by the UNGPs.
The responsibility to respect human rights refers to
internationally recognized human rights contained in the International Bill of
Human Rights. We are aware, that in practice, some human rights may be at
greater risk than others in particular industries and contexts. However, all
human rights should be the subject of periodic review.
3.1 Health and Safety
At LEDlight
Denmark, it is a top priority for us that all employees are able to leave the
company just as healthy and fit as when they arrived. To that end, we strive to
ensure a safe, good, and healthy working environment for our employees.
In line with our own ambitions, we expect our suppliers to:
· provide a secure and healthy working environment for all their workforce.
·
develop and implement effective health and safety management systems. These
systems must identify risks, measure, and monitor performance, and drive
continuous improvement to mitigate or minimize health and safety risks.
4. Environment and Sustainability
At LEDlight Denmark, we equate sustainability with
responsibility for both people and the environment. We strive to comply with
all relevant compliance obligations, both in relation to our operational activities,
services, and the products in our portfolio.
We work actively on reducing our total environmental impact, by offering more
environmentally friendly transport solutions and, from a lifecycle perspective,
more sustainable products to our customers. We also take steps to reduce the
total energy consumption of operational activities. Our approach to
sustainability is largely driven by our customers' demand and needs in this
area.
We expect our suppliers to support this responsibility by offering sustainable
solutions, services, and products throughout the entire supply chain and to
implement proper environmental management systems where applicable. Moreover,
we expect our suppliers to comply with all applicable laws and regulations
regarding sustainability solutions.
At LEDlight Denmark, we aim to have sustainability considerations incorporated
as an integral part of our business activities and strive to reduce the adverse
impact of these business activities.
The sustainability policy is supported by initiatives and actions to reduce CO2
emissions.
In line with our own ambitions, we expect our suppliers to:
- seek out actions to reduce CO2 emissions in their own operations, products, and services.
- identify, label, and manage hazardous substances, chemicals, waste, and other materials posing danger to humans or the environment, to ensure their safe handling, movement, storage, use, recycling or reuse, and disposal.
- seek out actions to manage resources, including waste, in a sustainable and circular way
5. Anti-Corruption
At LEDlight Denmark, we conduct all our business in an
honest and ethical manner and maintain a zero-tolerance policy on corruption.
In line with our own ambitions, we expect our suppliers:
- not to engage in any form of corrupt practice, including extortion, fraud, bribery, facilitation payment, or money laundry
- to comply with all laws, rules, and regulations relevant to anti-corruption.
6. Responsible Sourcing of Minerals
LEDlight Denmark wishes to run its business in a
responsible and ethically sound way.
Therefore, LEDlight Denmark dissociates itself from the use of resources which
may have the center of conflicts or human rights abuse. This includes conflict
minerals.
Consequently, LEDlight Denmark does not procure 3TG minerals directly from
mines or smelters.
In line with our own ambitions, we expect our suppliers to:
- adopt a policy and exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold in the products they manufacture. The purpose is to reasonably assure that minerals are sourced in a way consistent with the OECD’s Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas or an equivalent and recognized due diligence framework.
7. Contractual Arrangements
We expect our suppliers to cooperate by answering
questions, delivering data related to compliance and sustainability, carrying
out self-assessments, and - if deemed necessary - to cooperate with LEDlight
Denmark in addressing specific impacts.
lf necessary, suppliers must accommodate visits from LEDlight Denmark to assert
compliance. This includes providing physical access for any representative from
LEDlight Denmark or designated independent third parties.
lf our supplier causes, contributes to, or is linked to severe impacts, the
supplier must notify LEDlight Denmark immediately and account for what actions
the supplier has taken to end, prevent or mitigate the re-occurrence of the
severe impacts.
If a supplier fails to comply with our expectations, described in this CoC, the
suppliers must self-correct within a fixed period.
We are aware that improving ethical, social, and environmental performance
requires resources and time. However, by failure to notify about severe
impacts, failure to self-correct or failure to demonstrate willingness to
address identified adverse impacts, LEDlight Denmark reserves the right to end
the business relationship immediately.