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Fausta Borsani
Ethical and Environmental ProjectsCorporate Communications
Federation of Migros [email protected]
+41 1 277 20 39
Migros Group turnover € 13,5 billionMigros retail sales € 10 billionEthical products approx. 12 % of retail sales (€ 1.2 bn)
Staff number 83,200 (biggest employer)Store number (various sizes) 600Customers per day 1.4 million
Market share food: 25 %Market share non-food 9 %
2002 Key Figures
The sustainable Palm Oil Project
• Motivation
• Targets
• Stakeholders
The Content of the Criteria
Criteria in 5 sections• Transparency and verification• Legal compliance• Technical requirements• Environmental requirements• Social requirements
Migros Criteria
• Transparency and verification– Ensuring the source– Ensuring the criteria are implemented
• Legal compliance• Technical requirements
– Plantation management– Roads– Chemicals
Migros Criteria (continued)
• Environmental requirements– Minimising environmental impacts– Conservation and wildlife protection– Protecting natural forests
• Social requirements– Managing social impacts– Communication and consultation– Workers– Land tenure
Local Interpretation
• The environmental and social contexts ofoil palm plantations varies
• The precise requirements which must bemet need to be appropriate
• Migros Criteria must be adapted for localuse by local experts
Meeting the Criteria/ Audit
• Assessment of oil palm plantations carried out byan audit team including technical, social andenvironmental expertise.
• Three or more days visiting the office, theplantation, the nursery, workers, suppliers andlocal communities
• Where there is non-compliance this is noted andthe company must develop a plan to resolve theproblem
Meeting the Criteria (continued)
• The results of each assessment presented in areport to the oil palm plantation manager and toMigros
• The assessment is repeated annually• Local experts will be trained to carry out the
assessments to develop local capacity andminimise costs
Our next steps will be:• To audit further suppliers (at
the moment: 1 in Ghana, 1 inColumbia)
• Further work in the RoundTable
• Try to simplify logistics byvolume effects
• To convert the entire Migrosproduction and externalsuppliers to sustainable palmoil
• To inform a broad publicabout the project
Vision
The Migros Criteria forsustainable palm oil production
can be foundwww.migros.ch
link: „Engagement“