23.05.2022

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that Röchling SE & Co. KG reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

Rainer Schulz
CEO

Röchlings Human Rights Commitment is inspired by the generally accepted international
declarations and conventions, standards, principles, guidelines and recommendations, including:
− The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
− International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
− International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
− International Labour Organization's (ILO) Fundamental Human Rights Conventions
(convention 29, 87, 98, 100, 105, 111, 138 and 182)
− the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations
“Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework
− the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (2011 edition)
− the UN Global Compact principles

Risk analysis for important impact on human rights. Roadmap to our goal "Compliance Human rights"

Compliance Check-up and GAP-Analysis

We follow the 4 principles of the UN GP:
Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;

Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;

Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and

Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

Implementation strategy and roadmap.

Compliance monitoring and Check-ups.

Environmental protection and the efficient stewardship of resources are fundamental goals we pursue in operating our business. That means using all natural resources as efficiently as possible and keeping emissions to a minimum in all of our business activities.

In order to protect and meet our responsibility to the environment, we measure, evaluate, and reduce our consumption of natural resources as much as possible. Our goal is to safeguard the quality of our product deliveries and of our services and developments on a permanent basis, thereby ensuring that we deliver only the best quality on schedule.
This is done while taking the relevant environmental, occupational, and data protection regulations into account as well as applicable legislation and other binding regulations. During production of medical and pharmaceutical products, the focus is firmly on patient safety as a quality criterion. We guarantee verifiable and total
care and traceability of our activities all the way down to the raw materials used. With our certified management system, we are strengthening our customers’ trust in our products and services. The compliance of our efforts with rules and standards is confirmed by independent authorities and results in certification of our management systems.

As a manufacturing company, we produce carbon emissions. We measure and analyze these to minimize the impact of this greenhouse gas on
the environment to the greatest degree possible.
We strive to continually lower our relative energy consumption and to use energy efficiently and cost effectively. In doing so, we take into account the energy we produce as well as the energy we purchase.
We analyze our material and energy flows on an ongoing basis, monitor our diversified waste management, use this information to develop ideas for improvement, and reduce the environmental impacts. Many of the Röchling Group’s locations are already certified to the ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 environmental and energy management systems.
These globally recognized standards confirm that we operate effective environmental and energy management systems and deal with natural resources such as air, water, raw materials, and energy in an environmentally conscious manner.

Röchling is committed to ensuring that each Röchling company, branch or operation ("Company") in the European region meets its legal obligations and prevents, detects and eliminates corrupt practices, and cooperates to reduce opportunities for bribery and corruption.

Policies are in place at the compliance department and are trained at the locations.

Gap-analysis and risk assesments.