Global Compact

Progress report on the implementation of the principles of the Global Compact

With our support of the United Nations Global Compact, we want to raise standards in the fields of human rights, labor rights and environmental protection. In the year covered by the report, the focus was on climate protection, our Group-wide communication program on anti-corruption and compliance, the expansion of our procurement management system and the integration of our human rights policy into our management systems. Our commitment to sustainable health care serves the goal of strengthening human rights. The following table shows which of the policies, programs and management systems already introduced at Bayer support the 10 principles of the Global Compact, what practical measures we took last year in this respect, and to what extent we were able to register concrete achievements or results in the period under review. Information on the Global Compact can be found at external link: www.unglobalcompact.org/.

	Systems	Measures 2007	Achievements 2007
Principle 1: Support of human rights	Human rights Image: link Procurement Community Policy Image: link Guide: “Requirements for our suppliers” Image: link	Health care programs and partnerships Image: link Differentiated drug pricing policy Image: link	Integration of Group-wide Human Rights Position into our management systems Image: link
Principle 2: Exclusion of human rights violations	Procurement management Image: link Human rights Image: link	Sensitization of employees and suppliers Image: link Supplier survey in non-OECD countries Image: link	Rigorously tackling of child labor in India Image: link Image: link
Principle 3: Observance of the right to freedom of association	Group Works Council Image: link Bayer European Forum Image: link Human rights Image: link
Principle 4: Abolition of all forms of forced labor	Human rights Image: link Procurement management Image: link	No measures necessary
Principle 5: Abolition of child labor	Human rights Image: link Procurement management Image: link	Extension of system for tackling child labor in India Image: link
Principle 6: Elimination of discrimination	Social Charter external link: Image: link Bayer Diversity Policy Image: link Bayer Diversity Councils Image: link Human rights Image: link	e.g. program for promoting talent and diversity in the Asia- Pacific region Image: link e.g. program for integrating disabled employees in Brazil Image: link
Principle 7: Precautionary environmental protection	HSEQ management systems Image: link	e.g. regular HSE audits Image: link	e.g. significant reduction in reportable environmental incidents Image: link
Principle 8: Specific commitment to environmental protection	Group Sustainability Program Image: link Image: link Bayer Climate Program Image: link	e.g. development of Bayer Climate Check Image: link	Renewed inclusion in Climate Leadership Index of Carbon Disclosure Project Image: link
Principle 9: Diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies	Core business of BMS and Currenta Image: link	e.g. start of construction of hydrochloric acid recycling plant in Shanghai, China Image: link	e.g. 18,000 metric ton reduction in CO₂ emissions thanks to the modernization of the thermal waste air incinerator in Dormagen Image: link
Principle 10: Measures to fight corruption	Program for Legal Compliance and Corporate Responsibility at Bayer Image: link	Group-wide communication campaign on anti-corruption and compliance (United States) Image: link	Some 70,000 employees were trained in anti-corruption and compliance issues Image: link

Sustainability 2007 (Textversion)

Progress report on the implementation of the principles of the Global Compact