"Cooperation with our suppliers continues to be enhanced with digital technologies like BanQu and Sourcemap to improve transparency and carry out due diligence in our supply chains."

"Part of our due diligence efforts is to better understand our suppliers and their sustainability practices. We engage our suppliers through a digital supplier self-assessment on the Sourcemap platform and, in 2023, we rolled this out across 1,800 coffee, cocoa and cotton suppliers. The self assessment requests information about suppliers’ human rights and environmental policies and practices. Special focus is placed on suppliers’ readiness for traceability/transparency and on risk factors around forced labour, child labour, deforestation, and health and safety."

"We have been assessing the readiness of EUDR compliant data from our operations and our supply chain network through cycles of testing. This assessment includes running geolocational deforestation assessments on polygon and GPS data using ERDA to identify any land or tree coverage change, post 2020. The tests are also running alongside our yearly supplier due diligence assessments through our Sourcemap supplier self-assessment."

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