Supplier sustainability
Supplier Sustainability
Involvement Program
The Philips Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program is built on five pillars: create commitment by setting out our requirements; getting suppliers to understand our requirements and monitoring identified risk suppliers through audits; working with suppliers to resolve issues; and engaging stakeholders.
Building block 1: Create commitment
In 2012 we updated the Philips Supplier sustainability declaration in accordance with the updated EICC
Code of Conduct (www.eicc.info), and supplemented the Philips appendix with additional requirements on
Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining.
This is in keeping with our General Business Principles.
In cases where Freedom of Association and Collective
Bargaining are restricted by law, we look to see if there are other means of ensuring open communication between the supplier’s management and workers. The topics covered in the Declaration include labor and human rights, health and safety, environmental impact, ethics, and management systems.
Philips maintains a Regulated Substances List (RSL) for products which include substances banned by law or by Philips, substances whose use needs to be monitored due to regulatory requirements, or substances which Philips chooses to monitor as a precautionary measure.
Our Supplier Sustainability Declaration and the
Regulated Substances List form part of the Philips
Terms of Reference for suppliers, and all suppliers are required to comply with these. The Supplier Sustainability
Declaration requires suppliers to cascade the EICC Code of Conduct down to their next-tier suppliers.
The updated Declaration includes four entirely new provisions, and 14 updates to existing provisions. The new provisions relate to responsible sourcing of minerals, protection of privacy, non-retaliation, and supplier responsibility to monitor compliance with the code of conduct at next-tier suppliers. We will roll out
Involvement Program
The Philips Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program is built on five pillars: create commitment by setting out our requirements; getting suppliers to understand our requirements and monitoring identified risk suppliers through audits; working with suppliers to resolve issues; and engaging stakeholders.
Building block 1: Create commitment
In 2012 we updated the Philips Supplier sustainability declaration in accordance with the updated EICC
Code of Conduct (www.eicc.info), and supplemented the Philips appendix with additional requirements on
Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining.
This is in keeping with our General Business Principles.
In cases where Freedom of Association and Collective
Bargaining are restricted by law, we look to see if there are other means of ensuring open communication between the supplier’s management and workers. The topics covered in the Declaration include labor and human rights, health and safety, environmental impact, ethics, and management systems.
Philips maintains a Regulated Substances List (RSL) for products which include substances banned by law or by Philips, substances whose use needs to be monitored due to regulatory requirements, or substances which Philips chooses to monitor as a precautionary measure.
Our Supplier Sustainability Declaration and the
Regulated Substances List form part of the Philips
Terms of Reference for suppliers, and all suppliers are required to comply with these. The Supplier Sustainability
Declaration requires suppliers to cascade the EICC Code of Conduct down to their next-tier suppliers.
The updated Declaration includes four entirely new provisions, and 14 updates to existing provisions. The new provisions relate to responsible sourcing of minerals, protection of privacy, non-retaliation, and supplier responsibility to monitor compliance with the code of conduct at next-tier suppliers. We will roll out