Question: Does the company’s statement identify specific geographic regions (e.g. Indonesia), industries (e.g. agriculture), resources (e.g. Palm Oil) or types of workforce (e.g. migrant workers) where the risk of modern slavery is the greatest?"
Answer:
Industry,
Resource/products and services,
Workforce
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Aldi Stores Ltd
2020
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The company does not report high risk countries.

pg. 7

"To show that they can meet our ethical standards and requirements, suppliers must also arrange for one of the following independent third-party ethical audits or certifications of their production sites in highrisk countries (defined by amfori BSCI), which have been approved by Aldi"

pg. 8

"The programme has now been extended to a number of new commodity groups, identified as high risk, including produce, fish and seafood, oils and condiments, processed produce and canned meats."

pg. 9

"5. Extend risk assessment programmes in high-risk areas of the business: Construction, Recruitment, goods not for resale (GNFR) and Logistics. Although work in these areas has started already, we plan to roll this out more extensively over the course of 2021 and beyond"

pg. 14

"• Extend our risk assessment programme in high-risk areas: Construction, Recruitment, GNFR and Logistics in the UK"

Singh Anjali.....2021-11-23 16:47:24 UTC

Page 8 does not provide evidence of risk identification of resources in the garment supply chain but I left it checked because it does identify resources in their food business.

Page 9 provides evidence for industry so I left it checked.See below:

"Extend risk assessment programmes in high-risk areas of the business: Construction, Recruitment, goods not for resale (GNFR) and Logistics. Although work in these areas has started already, we plan to roll this out more extensively over the course of 2021 and beyond"

I checked Workforce because:

As a result of these visits, we identified a number of risk areas specifically relating to the sourcing of temporary labour and have worked with suppliers to remediate these issues (p.8)

No evidence of the company being in the process of identifying risks so I unchecked In development.

Geography: arrange for one of the following independent third-party ethical audits or certifications of their production sites in highrisk countries (defined by amfori BSCI), which have been approved by Ald. (p. 7) but does not mention any countries. Therefore, I have left it unchecked.

Sofia Gonzalez De Aguinaga.....2021-12-07 20:05:39 UTC