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2014

Sustainability Policy

GGTI recognises that some of its activities and services can cause impacts on the environment. To address these impacts and in turn reduce our ecological footprint, Management is committed to: • Implementing assessment, measuring, and reporting processes to identify and explain Applicant products’ potential to create and minimise pollution (including carbon), waste, resource, health and other impacts on the environment and people across the entire life cycle of the products assessed and that can be influenced by them (i.e., Scope 1 and 2 only); • Implementing measures and reporting to identify our organisation’s impacts and quantify our actions to minimise pollution, waste, resource consumption, health, social and other impacts on the environment and workers that GGTI can influence: o Continually improving and broadening the environmental knowledge and expertise of staff, o Continually reducing the environmental and social impact of GGTI’s activities, products and services via activities including renewable energy, green procurement, nature-based carbon offsetting, recycling programs and the like; o Influencing, advancing, and promoting the issues of Sustainability within the consumer, trade, professional and student sectors; o Complying with or exceeding relevant environmental legislation, regulations and other requirements that relate to GGTI’s operations; o Implementing, maintaining, and continually improving the Quality Management System including sustainability and staff engagement indicators; o Identifying the environmental aspects and social impacts of the organisation’s activities, products and services, and manage these to reduce impacts over time; o Coordinating this Sustainability Policy with other organisational policies; o Ensuring compliance with ISO 14024 and ISO 17065 the Global GreenTag Standards and broad Stakeholder Engagement; o Transparency in reporting the outcomes of this policy where confidentiality allows; o Identifying priorities and setting appropriate sustainability objectives and targets especially in relation to those UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are relevant to GGTI; • Engaging and facilitating Applicants, Staff and Partners to engage in programs to minimise their impacts and ensuring they are compliant with legal practice in their countries. Management reviews its Sustainability objectives on a regular basis to ensure their continuing suitability within the framework of the Quality Management System. The Sustainability elements of the Management System are audited in accordance with established procedures to ensure compliance with AS/NZS ISO 9001:2015. The Sustainability Policy is communicated to and understood by all employees.

2020

Modern Slavery Policy

This Modern Slavery Statement for Global GreenTag International Pty Ltd is a Voluntary Statement pursuant to the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018. The purpose of this statement is to outline our commitment and clarify our approach to ensuring that Global GreenTag International has robust frameworks and processes in place to minimise the risk of modern slavery in our business operations and supply chain. Possibilities of Modern Slavery occurring in supply chains – issues of ethical labour sourcing and social impacts – have always been a requirement for assessment of products under the Global GreenTag International Product Certification Standard. Global GreenTag International has been actively involved with a number of interest bodies in recent years to bring stronger focus to the problem of Modern Slavery and was one of a core group of companies that pledged support behind the Australian Human Rights Commission’s call for the National Modern Slavery legislation in late 2017. At Global GreenTag International, we recognise that slavery and human trafficking can occur in many forms, as considered in the Act. This can include slavery, servitude, human trafficking, forced marriage, forced labour, debt bondage, child labour, and deceptive recruiting for labour or services. Global GreenTag International is fully committed to operating responsibly and establishing and adhering to the highest ethical standards both from a product Certification Standard and a Company level.