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Our
About This President’s About 2023 Apical2030 Approach to Transformative
Report Statement Apical Highlights Highlights Sustainability Partnerships

APICAL GROUP
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2023
TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

Our Traceability Verification Guidance (TVG) offer a detailed methodology for data verification, introducing a
standardised approach to protocol implementation across our operations. This guidance ensures consistency
among all participants in our supply chain, setting uniform criteria and expectations for verifying the traceability
of Tier 1 suppliers. As a result, we anticipate that all entities within our supply chain will motivate their Tier 1
suppliers to adopt this guidance, thereby reinforcing their commitment to traceability.

The development of this guidance was in line with established protocols, including the NDPE IRF and the
ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 standards.

The following flow chart illustrates Apical’s simplified supply chain and the expected responsibilities for
traceability verification by each supply chain actor.

Material flow

Traceability data flow:
Traceability data TTM, TTP, traceability
flow: TTP verification result

FFB suppliers Mills Refineries

Tier 1 supplier Tier 1 supplier
traceability verification traceability verification
Traceability requirements flow

Apical2030 Target
Engage 100% of our suppliers for independent verification
of traceability data by 2025

We are pleased to report that we surpassed our 2023 To further improve the effectiveness of our TTP
goal by verifying 72% of our suppliers, exceeding programme, we have introduced a Risk Calibrated
the initial target of 50%. For 2024, our objective is to Approach. This strategy enhances our insight into the
have 90-100% of our TTP data confirmed by an specific risks faced by our suppliers and their ability to
external verification body. adhere to NDPE commitments, tailoring our support
and interventions more effectively.
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