On-site visits with Recruitment team on pg 15.

Auditing on pg 11.

pg. 11

“Independent audits, carried out by an expert, are a key component of the programme and all main production facilities in high-risk areas used for Aldi products must have a valid third-party audit.”

“• Conducting our own on-site visits for certain high-risk commodity groups through the Aldi Sustainability Assessments (ASAs)”

Pg. 12

“Our teams regularly carry out announced, semi-announced and unannounced site visits and assessments of supplier facilities to check they meet our ethical standards and requirements.”

"Due to Covid-19, we could only conduct a very limited number of assessments in our fish supply chain but will be working hard to drive progress in this area in 2022 and beyond.

In 2021, we piloted a new Corporate Responsibility Supplier Evaluation (CRSE) process for our canned tuna supply chain, which will be rolled out to further high priority supply chains. “

This refers to a risk assessment and not a compliance audit. Hence, the unchecked onsite-audit (independent).

pg. 15

“For our Recruitment teams, we worked with the Wilberforce Institute to carry out a modern slavery risk assessment of all Recruitment Agencies as part of our recruitment services tendering process……

We carried out on-site modern slavery risk assessments in our produce and horticulture supply chains and our fresh meat supply chain. We also carried out a virtual modern slavery risk assessment of selected customer services providers during the tendering process.”