Code Of Conduct Employees- responsible business conduct

Embedding Sustainability Into Our Everyday Operations

Our independence empowers us to build a workplace founded on sustainability. We strongly value our people and the part they play in upholding our commitments in accordance with the international standard for responsible business conduct.

The international standard on responsible business conduct focuses on business impacts in three core areas: social, environmental and economic sustainability - and in turn, this creates expectations for our employees in these areas.

Our Code of Conduct for Employees (CoCE) sets out our expectations of you as an ICL employee and guides you on what our sustainability commitment means in practice for your daily work.

A. GENERAL EXPECTATIONS

In your capacity as an ICL employee, we expect you to:

Comply with the law
Comply with this CoCE
Raise questions where you are in doubt
Listen - and refrain from retailing - where others raise concerns
Ensure that business relationships are made aware that we expect them to act responsibly in accordance with the ICL Code of Conduct for Business Relationships.

B. Social Sustainability

In accordance with our social sustainability commitments, we expect you to:

Prevent and denounce discrimination on all discrimination grounds, such as gender, sexual orientation, 'race', color, national origin, ethnicity, religion, language, disability, functional variations, health challenges, age, union- or political affiliation or other status. This also means interrogating your own biases and not acting on prejudices that may arise.
ICL has zero-tolerance towards discrimination and harassment, and we expect you to avoid and denounce any form of degrading treatment, bullying, or harassment.

Ensure equal opportunities by way of promotion and equal pay for equal work.
Foster safe and healthy working conditions and provide ideas to further improve these conditions in the workplace. This includes diligently reporting on near-misses and contributing to further improvements in our services.
Appreciate and seek to accommodate differences in opinions and persuasion.
Seek to accommodate expecting persons or recent parenthood.
Assist in training new employees, attend to your own professional development, and display fairness when you need to let a colleague go.
Appreciate the right to rest, leisure and paid holidays when planning your activities and those of your colleagues.
Ensure that employees are not put in a situation where they do not feel free to leave employment with due notice.

Appreciate and acknowledge the work of others, colleagues or third parties when you make use of their work in your deliveries.
Share information with your colleagues that they require for performing their tasks and ask for the information you need to perform yours.
Respect and protect the privacy of others, including appropriate handling of personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
When limiting freedom of expression of others, provide reasoning for why. Please note that all communication to media on behalf of ICL must be approved by our President, CEO, CFO or Head of Compliance.
Treat others with dignity.

C. Environmental Sustainability

In accordance with our environmental sustainability commitments, we expect you to:

Continue developing ideas and innovations that improve the lifespan of our services, promote circular approaches, reduce the use of raw material and packaging materials, and increase the use of reusable materials.
Always consider energy alternatives with a view to reducing the carbon footprint and emissions arising from our actions or decisions. Our ability to save energy may directly impact the climate.
Continuously seek to improve ICL's ability to reuse and reduce waste.
Set a good example in preventing or mitigating environmental impacts, including:
1. handling and disposing of chemicals with the utmost care for the environment
2. using environmentally friendly technologies where possible.

D. Economic Sustainability

ICL has a zero-tolerance towards corruption and bribery. In accordance with our economic sustainability commitments, we expect you to:

Abstain from offering or accepting bribery or facilitation payments to obtain advantages.
This extends to offering or accepting via intermediaries and by trading in influence.
Abstain from receiving or giving gifts of a disproportionate size.
Gifts or entertainment given to, or received from, the same legal body or person totaling more than EUR 250 annually must be reported and approved by the CEO - or otherwise rejected. Where gifts or entertainment spending is approved, ensure they are recorded in our gift register.

Abstain from cronyism and nepotism
At ICL, we expect to remain clear of allegations of extortion, fraud, embezzlement, anti-competitive behavior, or tax avoidance. Always say 'no', if you are concerned that a decision, action, or omission could negatively impact our reputation if made public. Ask if you are in doubt.
Refrain from any other activities that undermine economic sustainability.

E. Tell Us & Whistleblower Mechanism

Please speak up - we have an open-door culture, and we welcome your input. Reach out to us if you experience adverse impacts - and also with ideas for improving our performance across social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Our Head of Sustainability is ready to hear from you or you can submit your input through our grievance mechanism.
Please bring grievances to your immediate manager. If your grievance concerns your immediate manager, then escalate to the level above this role.
If you suggest that an adverse impact also amounts to a violation of law, are not comfortable raising the grievance directly with management and would prefer to submit your grievance anonymously - our whistleblower mechanism is available to you.
ICL assures you that grievances brought forward in good faith will not be met with any kind of reprisal.

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