ABOUT EGE CARPETS Ege Carpets is a leading European carpet producer with the entire world as its market. This Code of Conduct applies to suppliers of goods and services to Ege Carpets. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY In Ege Carpets, we consider corporate social responsibility – CSR – a necessity and a business advantage. The world is under pressure, and all companies need to take active and long-term responsibility for how they affect it. Through a dedicated focus on social responsibility, Ege Carpets works to ensure that our business model, production and products contribute to creating a sustainable society now and in the future. We also wish to develop new and even more sustainable pro- ducts and production methods, as well as new methods for the use and reuse of our products. This stipulates stringent require- ments for us and our suppliers of goods and services. We there- fore use CSR as a framework for development throughout the entire value chain. PREMISE OF COOPERATION WITH SUPPLIERS Together with our suppliers, we will work to create social, envi- ronmental and economic improvements in the value chain. We can help each other through dialogue and enhanced coopera- tion. mitting itself to respecting and promoting the 10 principles of social responsibility. We recognise that it takes a lot of resources to become involved in the above. That is why we are happy to enter into a dialogue on what each supplier should do to ensure compliance with the requirements in this Code of Conduct. SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES The UN Guiding Principles are international guidelines for how a company can respect human rights throughout the value chain. All companies in the world are subject to the UN Guiding Princi- ples and obliged to follow the guidelines, which in brief means that: • The company must identify where there is a risk of them in- fringing human rights • The identified risk must then be prevented and any infringe- ment rectified • The company must require their suppliers to undergo the same process in their first tier It is a fundamental requirement that suppliers of goods and services to Ege Carpets comply with national and international law as well as the international conventions to which all coun- tries and companies are subject, including the International Bill of Human Rights, the Rio Declaration on Environment and De- velopment, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.1 We also encourage the supplier to actively contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals by working with the goals that best support the supplier’s core business. Similarly, we encour- age the supplier to join the UN Global Compact, thereby com- This process is called due diligence. We recognise that it takes time and resources to establish the processes that due diligence requires. We are undergoing the same process at Ege Carpets. This Code of Conduct is part of the process. It is a requirement from Ege Carpets that all suppliers sign this Code of Conduct. In doing so, the supplier also undertakes to comply with the UN Guiding Principles, thereby disseminating the requirements from the UN Guiding Principles through its own value chain. In the long term, this means that the entire value chain will comply with the UN Guiding Principles. 1 Brief explanation on the conventions and principles listed in Appendix I 2
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