PLUS Rating A+
Once the form or questionnaire RightSupply has been completed, the system automatically generates your RS26000 Report or Digital Sustainability Report. This report shows the Provisional Sustainability Index that classifies performance using a letter system from G to A.
Once the scoreboard exceeds 1,200 points, you can qualify for an A+ rating from RightSupply , which additionally requires the following requirements to be met.
The added value A+(PLUS), is obtained when the following requirements are met:
1. HAVE A SCORE OF MORE THAN 1,200 POINTS ON THE SCOREBOARD OF THE RightSupply
2. MATRIX / MATERIALITY ANALYSIS (Minimum requirement for categories A and B+)
Have a materiality matrix o a system for assessing the aspects or impacts relevant to stakeholders (stakeholders and interest groups) in the area of sustainability. The materiality analysis shall also consider the impact of these aspects in relation to the significance for the organisation itself, assessing, where appropriate, the double financial materiality derived.
The organisation shall show evidence of actions, plans or management systems by which it responds to the risks, expectations, needs and opportunities arising from the material aspects identified as key or significant.
3. CLIMATE CHANGE
To have its own renewable energy production facilities in its own centres or under the ownership of the organisation, covering 50% of the total energy consumption of the production or service provision facilities or, failing this, to ensure that 100% of the CO2 emissions generated directly (scope 1) and indirectly (scope 2 - emissions associated with non-renewable energy consumption acquired from third parties) are compensated in an accredited manner.
In addition and in order to qualify A++ (>1400 points)the organisation shall have calculated its emissions in the three scopes 1,2,3 in accordance with the GHG verified or under ISO 14064-1, and have an emission reduction plan that meets the following criteria:
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- Plan for compliance with the Paris Agreement, revised at COP26. Requires a commitment to quantitative reduction and offsetting of total CO2eq emissions, including Scope 3, by 2030.
- A CARBON NEUTRAL target for 2050 will be determined on these emissions, although full decarbonisation with Net-Zero Standardtargets is recommended.
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4. CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Have a life cycle analysis of the product or service (the main or most representative one), or an eco-design plan, which establishes actions or good practices for resource management, reuse, recovery, recycling, reverse logistics or dematerialisation - including raw materials, products, components and packaging. Failing this, the organisation may initiate the calculation of the Material Circularity Index (MCI) by setting quantitative targets for optimisation in the short, medium and long term.
In addition and in order to qualify A++ (>1400 points)The organisation must approve a Circular Economy Roadmap or Master Plan with quantitative targets associated with the Circularity of Matter Index (CIRM) of its organisation and/or main products. This plan shall cover at least 80% of the weight of the materials involved in the processes of the activity itself as well as the volume of materials involved in the use of products or in the provision of services.
5. SUPPLY CHAIN. SUPPLIER EVALUATION
To have a system for assessing the sustainability of its suppliers. The evaluation of suppliers shall be annual and shall cover at least the following aspects of the ISO 26000 standard: HUMAN RIGHTS, LABOUR PRACTICES, ENVIRONMENT, FAIR OPERATIONS, CONSUMER/CUSTOMER AFFAIRS, COMMUNITY PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNANCE AND TRANSPARENCY.
Unless there is a justified justification, the evaluation shall include a minimum of 50% of the total number of SUPPLIERS or those that represent AT LEAST 50% of the VOLUME of RAW MATERIALS or of SERVICE PROVIDED. The organisation may justify a lower percentage based on the criticality or representativeness of the chosen suppliers or their influence within the organisation.
6. SUPPLY CHAIN. HUMAN RIGHTS
Have at least one effective and enforceable contractual clause applied to suppliers at risk of non-compliance on human rights protection and implement policies and codes of ethics that include human rights due diligence requirements for suppliers.
Ensure that the organisation adopts the guiding principles proposed by the United Nations: Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights .
DUE DILIGENCE involves a process of ongoing, two-way communication with stakeholders. The company is expected to explain how it identifies and addresses adverse impacts - actual or potential - as well as the action plans to be developed to mitigate these risks of rights violations:
- Right to work.
- No one shall be held in slavery, servitude or forced labour.
- Right to privacy.
- Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
- Right to protection of the family and freedom of marriage, protection of children and adolescents.
- Right to equality before the law, without discrimination.
- The right to just and favourable conditions at work.
- Right to health and safety at work.
- The right to form and join trade unions.
- Right to property.
- Right to social security.
- Right to live in a pollution-free environment.
7. EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION: EQUALITY PLAN
To have an Equality Plan that addresses the following elements through analysis, policies and planning for prevention and improvement:
- Equal pay for women and men with a narrowing wage gap (demonstrated by statistics or trend over a period of at least three years).
- Equal opportunities for women to access managerial positions
- Equality in staff recruitment processes
- Communication methods that exclude sexist terminology
- Eradicating the feminisation or masculinisation of jobs
- Prevention of sexual and gender-based harassment
- Reconciliation of work, family and personal life
8. ACCIDENT RATE
Maintain maximum accident rates in accordance with the following parameters:
At the end of the year the accident frequency rate IF = number of lost time accidents x 1,000,000/total hours worked) should be lower than the corresponding sectoral average value.
- Sector Agrícola: < 26,8
- Sector Industrial: < 31,4
- Sector de la Construcció: < 37,3
- Sector de Servicios: < 14,3
9. TRANSPARENCY
Proactively publicise its RS26000 Report and actively make it available to customers and stakeholders, as well as other Corporate Social Responsibility reports, non-financial reports or sustainability reports.
10. JUDICIAL ASPECTS
The organisation shall not dispose of The organisation shall not have unresolved condemnatory legal cases or cases which do not remedy or restore the damaged or infringed asset or right, within the financial year and in matters of:
- Offences against workers' rights
- Unfair competition offences
- Capital flight offences
- Bribery, corruption or money laundering offences
- Ecological crimes, dumping and illegal emissions.
- Misappropriation offences
- Offences against public or private property.
- Offences against the privacy and intimacy of individuals
RESPONSIBLE SELF-DECLARATION (Requirement applicable to all public RS26000 reports and certificates)
Any RS26000 Report or RS26000 Certificate to be published shall include the Responsible Self-Declaration issued on an annual basis by the organisation's top management or by a management body delegated by the organisation's top management. The self-declaration may be replaced by an external audit report provided that it includes a review of the entire contents of the RS26000 Report.
Content verification
The RS26000 Index is a quantitative assessment of sustainability based on a set of specific indicators of corporate social and environmental responsibility. It takes more than 200 variables as a reference and integrates the information declared by the organization within the framework of the ISO 26000 standard and Agenda 2030 .
The Indexes and Sustainability Reports RightSupply RS26000 generated on this platform have to undergo a process of content verification by ECOMUNDIS auditors . The organization will be able to opt for extended validations of its RS26000 Index, by official certifying bodies and within its own processes of certification of norms and standards.
RS26000 Certificate
Once the contents have been verified, the organisation can make public or communicate its RS26000 Index to its customers and other interested parties. The RS26000 Certificate Certificate is valid for a maximum of one year from the date of issue and, once the certificate expires, the platform will keep accessible this RS26000Report for a maximum of three months.
RightSupply reserves the right to revoke the RS26000 certificate and to remove the content declared by the organisation from this platform, if it is proven that the organisation has omitted relevant aspects or provided false information.
The contents, data and information included by the organisations in the RS26000 Report are additionally subject to a Responsible Self-Declaration regarding their accuracy and validity. Independently, this information may be audited or validated as a whole/totality or separately within the framework of the different external auditing processes to which the organisation is subject in compliance with other norms or standardised management and/or eco-labelling norms for its products.
Responsible self-declaration
Any RS26000 Report or RS26000 RS Sustainability Index RS26000 Certificate to be published requires a Responsible Self-Declaration issued annually by the organisation's senior management or a management body delegated by the senior management. The self-declaration may be replaced by an external audit report provided that it includes a review of the entire contents of the RS26000 Report.
The self-declaration is found at the end of the RS26000 form and can either be formalised in the same questionnaire or issued in documentary format including the following self-declaration text (document to be attached to the form as a signed and dated pdf file):
DECLARATION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY AND VALIDITY
OF THE DATA REPORTED IN THE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT RIGHTSUPPLY RS 26000
Mr/Ms ______________ in his/her capacity as head of _____________________________
of the Organisation ___________________________________________________________
with CIF or tax identification number ___________________ and address for notification purposes at
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Ciudad:_________________ Estado/Región: __________________País:_________________
DECLARES:
- That all the information included in the RS26000 Report for the financial year _______ is true, current and complete to the best of our knowledge and belief.
- That as a member of the Supplier Network RightSupply, our organisation will make the RS26000 report public from today and for the year of its validity.
- That this report is made available to any other interested party or stakeholder for review and contrasted assessment, establishing the e-mail address _____________________ as a means of communication for attention and response to related queries.
Therefore, I hereby sign on ___________.
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