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Set on making sustainability a must

ACCIONA works to transfer its commitment to sustainability throughout its supply chain and between its clients through specific activities. The purpose is to harness longlasting relations of mutual support that generate value throughout the organization.

To achieve this, we focus on two main points:

  • Our supply chain: We introduce ethical, environmental and social questions into the company´s supply chain management.

  • Our quality management model: we are actively commited to sustainability, incorporating criteria of sustainability and profitability into its processes.

EXCELLENT MANAGEMENT

Responsible Management of our supply chain

ACCIONA conveys its commitment to Sustainability to the whole supply chain, in any of the relations and communications it establishes.

With the aim of identifying, mitigating and managing
risk, ACCIONA has an internal risk management mechanism that is essentially structured over three elements:

  • The Risk Map, a tool for controlling the supply chain thatsupports decision-making criteria for procurement and the identification of potential areas for improvement in suppliers.

  • The PROCUR-e platform, an electronic procurement tool that supports management of the supply chain through a Supplier Portal and a Bidding Tool.

  • The Procedure for Supplier Qualification and Evaluation, an integral, objective process where a full analysis is performed on the supplier, thereby minimising the risks, recognised for the supplier and infrastructure, such as corporate responsibility (CR) position, solvency or legal position, amongst others.

Supply chain

Ethical principles for suppliers, contractors and partners, and ethics channel

ACCIONA sees the dissemination of the company's Ethical Principles to its supply chain as key to consolidating a network of suppliers, contractors and collaborators that is consistent with corporate values.

These principles cover aspects of transparency and ethics, human and social rights, health and safety, and quality and the environment and are updated terms of Human and Social Rights of the Ethical Principles for Suppliers, Contractors and Collaborators in order to align them with the commitments acquired by ACCIONA in the new Human Rights Policy.

In addition, suppliers have two-way channels to raise questions about their business relationship with ACCIONA. Similarly, they can use the Ethic Channel available in different languages to inform the company of any irregular practices detected and encourage their analysis.

Ethics clauses in orders, contracts, and bid terms of reference

The clauses included in all ACCIONA’s orders, contracts, and bid terms of reference specifically refer to its Ethical Principles for Suppliers, Contractors, and Partners. These clauses include in addition , its commitment to the Principles of the Global Compact, the Law of Effective Equality of Women and Men, the integration of the differently-abled clause, and the availability of the Ethics Channel for suppliers and contractors, so that they can also report any irregular practice that involves a violation of these principles.

During 2023, the mandatory clauses on data protection, ethical principles, workers welfare and taxes on non-reusable plastic containers were updated. And, in order to adapt to the new legislation on the criminal liability of legal entities, a series of clauses have been included in all the model contracts of the corresponding companies, through which the company informs the supplier of both its Code of Conduct and its Crime Prevention Model.

No Go Suppliers

The NoGo Policies summarize the set of minimum standards in terms of ethics and integrity, corporate responsibility and sustainability, economic solvency and performance that must be met by the partner and/or supplier. In the event of non-compliance, the company may not be contracted by ACCIONA until it resolves the reasons for the situation.

In December 2022, the new revised edition of these policies has been implemented reinforcing the social safeguards criteria. In 2023, 166 suppliers have been considered as No Go, of which 26 have exited this category following the implementation of audits, action or improvement plans, or enhanced due diligence. 

During 2023, ACCIONA has been working on the first case of contracting a NoGo supplier, which was detected in 2022, applying the Action Plan established for its detection and actively monitoring it. Finally, the extraordinary Approval Committee has considered this case as completed after having fulfilled all the requirements.

Training for suppliers

The Supplier Campus of ACCIONA's Corporate University is integrated into PROCUR-e, available and free of charge for 100% of the supply chain.

In 2023, all courses were reviewed by the corresponding corporate areas and the ‘Climate Change’ course has been updated and the content and accessibility of the ‘Prevention of Discrimination and Equality’ course has been revised. Currently, there are 8 available courses for suppliers.

Integration of ESG principles into the procurement process

In order to identify sustainable procurement, ACCIONA has developed the “Sustainable Procurement Guide”. Since 2016, the indicators for its identification have been implemented, both in PROCUR-e and in the main management systems. In 2023 ACCIONA continued to promote its Strategic Decarbonization Plan and its ESG challenges by launching a new updated version of its Sustainable Procurement Guide, which includes the following new features:

  • The new SCRM system encourages contracting with the new ESG Preferred Supplier segment of suppliers: those that stand out in aspects such as transparency and business ethics, human and social rights, health and safety, quality, sustainability and environment.
  • The social aspect in the definition of sustainable purchasing has been enriched by leveraging the ESG training and improvement programs that ACCIONA has offered to its suppliers.
  • The environmental aspect of the product has been reinforced by deepening its analysis through the Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and the results obtained in the scope 3 pilot study for concrete deployed by the Construction business.

As part of ACCIONA's commitment, the guide is continuously updated. Throughout 2024, it will continue to evolve with the integration of the latest results from emissions studies and pilot projects.