The company reports freedom of association in its supplier code of conduct and provides evidence of compliance for the same.

Supplier code of conduct, pg. 8

"LABOR UNION MEMBERSHIP

Every worker has the right to establish or associate with labor unions as well as to negotiate on a collective basis."

Annual Report 2019, pg. 39

"EVALUATED / MONITORED SUPPLIERS

World

Tier 1 99%

Tier 2 94%"

pg. 40

"2019 MONITORING ADVANCES

Deeper evaluation

In the complete audits, which are conducted once a year throughout Renner’s national supply chain, we now evaluate 148 items, more than double from the 62 items evaluated so far. New blocks were included to assess supplier management level on social, environmental, chemical use and human resources aspects. We also built an “express checklist” used for 30-item revisit audits focused on the highest risk and severity topics for follow-up throughout the year.

Still in 2019, we started a project that will allow us to use artificial intelligence for internal and external data analysis in 2020, predicting possible supply chain nonconformities, prioritizing and directing our audits."

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"ITEMS EVALUATED IN AUDITS

2019 148"