Since our adhesion to the Global Compact, our will is to integrate in our culture and each one of our actions, the principles of the pact. For that, we created in June 2003 a project "sustainable Development" in our company in order to define our sustainable development policy.
This policy, in close link with our engagement in the Global Compact, is pressed on five major axes, engaging our social and environmental responsibility: marketing ethics, relations with our wine growers, relations with our suppliers, Quality/Safety/Environment management of our production sites and human ressources.
Our engagement in human rights and labour standards are as follows: respect of the law labour in all the areas, social dialogue in priority, development of our collaborators (internal mobility, training) and internal equity (remuneration and evaluation policies).
Our engagement always were to invest in the environmental protection of our production sites. For several years, several of our sites have been certified Iso 9000, Iso 14001 and HACCP. All sites set up the actions required to be in conformity with the national lawful requirements concerning the safety of goods and people.
Our will is to assure the evolution of Rémy Cointreau in a dynamic process of continuous improvement, using a responsible attitude integrating our economic development, our social leading and our environmental actions.
Using the whole of these actions, we are convinced that we will reinforce our identity and the continuity of our company, in seeing to the durability of the world which surround us.

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The actions currently developed and the engagements we take in our sustainable development policy allow us to answer the principles of the Global Compact by the following actions:
1) Human rights and labour standards
- creation of a corporate affairs team and a development and human resources team
- creation of employee focus group on key ethical topics
- setting up of a global approach to corporate policy while respecting to national legislations (dialogue with our partners in every country, agreements finalized for employee profit sharing)
- investment in training programs
- requirement near our suppliers of the effective abolition of child labour
- integration in the contracts of our suppliers of articles mentioning our engagement in the Global Compact, to encourage our suppliers to support the principles of the Global Compact

2) Environment
Our engagement in environment results in the following achievement:
- installation of QSE structures on our production sites and on our vineyards
- certification Iso 14001 of our sites and sending up Iso 14001 projects for the not yet certified sites
- validation by independent organisation of HACCP structure on our production sites
- reduction in the water consumption on our french site (Angers)
- sorting of the waste on the sites, with objective of reduction in the waste
- increase in the recyclability of materials used for our packaging
- setting in environmental conformity of our vineyards with implementation of the reasoned wine growing
- development of the sharing of know-how between the production sites