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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

Suppliers Self-Assessment (SFA)
Introduced in 2020, the SFA tool allows our suppliers to conduct a self-evaluation questionnaire to check
their alignment with our NDPE policy and to identify supply chain risks. Suppliers flagged as high-risk through
the SFA are encouraged to join the PSEP, CARE, and SVP for necessary corrective measures. The SFA tool
has been crucial in maintaining engagement with our suppliers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic
restrictions, and remains in active use.

manner. Our commitment to sustainability is at the
heart of our business, positioning us to effectively
tackle significant global challenges and comply with
Apical Supplier Platform (SFA) evolving ESG standards, including the recent EUDR.

Apical launched SFA, which has been live We are committed to protecting and conserving
since August 2023. The SFA is designed to forests, biodiversity and social well-being, to ensure
streamline and improve the collection and our supply chain is traceable, sustainable and
management of vital supplier information deforestation free, in line with EUDR requirements.
and data. It efficiently includes NDPE The EUDR aims to reduce deforestation, greenhouse
Compliance and traceability information gas emissions, and biodiversity loss worldwide
from the enormous pool of suppliers. by providing screening requirements for 6 main
This platform is crucial for ensuring a commodities which are wood, cattle, oil palm, soy,
sustainable and deforestation-free supply coffee, cocoa. It was passed by the EU parliament in
chain. SFA features: June 2023 and will be enforced from December 30,
2024.
• Data Streamlining – streamlines data
collection and management from To comply with EUDR, we conducted due diligence on
supplying mills. our suppliers based on several criteria, among others:
• Supplier Collaborations – improves • Compliance with the producing country’s relevant
supplier collaboration with the user- legislation.
friendly interface.
• Traceability of FFB sources of origin using at
• Enhanced Traceability – enhances least one latitude and one longitude with at least
traceability by capturing accurate and 6 decimal digits for plot of land less than 4 ha
up-to-date data.
and polygon mapping with sufficient latitude and
longitude points to describe the perimeter of each
plot of land more than 4 ha.
• A comprehensive deforestation-free due diligence
process, including risk assessment and mitigation,
APICAL’S PROGRESS ON EUDR COMPLIANCE with a due diligence statement submitted for each
EUDR-compliant shipment.
As a global integrated processor of vegetable oils,
Apical can efficiently and sustainably manage its supply • Ensure no mixing implementation throughout the
chain and its processes in a transparent and traceable supply chain to prevent mixing with non-EUDR raw
materials.

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