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"RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT

We source our products from 79 different countries around the world and recognise the need to monitor and mitigate the risk of modern slavery in all parts of the supply chain; from where the product is made or grown through its journey to our stores.

We have a comprehensive system of checks and controls in place to identify high-risk areas in our supply chain and wider business, including third-party ethical audits. The size of our supply chain means we need to focus our resources on the areas with the most risk and where we can have the greatest impact.

Wilberforce Institute

In 2019, Aldi UK and Ireland partnered with the Wilberforce Institute (WI) to conduct a series of desktop risk assessments across our produce, horticulture and logistics supply chains. We conducted desktop reviews, looking at more than 70 of Aldi’s produce lines, from across 76 countries and over 11,000 sites worldwide. This was alongside a number of ad hoc site visits based on alerts from colleagues who had received modern slavery awareness training in 2019. 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.

In 2020, we continued our work with the Wilberforce Institute, carrying out awareness training for colleagues in our buying teams and built future risk assessment plans for logistics supply chains. Thanks to the training and the awareness of modern slavery that our work with the Wilberforce Institute has achieved, we have seen a significant increase in whistleblowers coming forward to report allegations of poor worker welfare and labour practices."

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"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: • amfori BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) ethial audit • SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) • ICTI (International Council of Toy Industries) ethical audit • SA8000 (Social Accountability International standard) • Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) audit, formerly Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) • Fair Wear Foundation certification (textiles only)

We expect our suppliers to take responsibility for monitoring and improving working conditions at all sites in their supply chains. We also expect them to adopt an approach to ethical trade that goes beyond compliance.

However, we know from experience that thirdparty audits may not always provide a true picture of working conditions at a supplier site. For this reason, we also carry out our own ethical audits and site visits through our Aldi Social Assessment programme."

The evidence above does not show review of KPIs. The statement does not mention KPIs nor reviewing them. Therefore, I have changed the answer from Yes to No.