Corporate Sustainability

CREATING AN INTEGRATED TOTAL,

Sustainable and Innovative

Oakpar Group adopts the highest standards of corporate sustainability, by ensuring the economic-financial viability and preservation, incorporation and optimization of the economic value of the company, its companies, assets and capital, in order to positively impact the lives of people and society.

Oakpar Group’s management, control and monitoring system is based on all of its internal operating and integrity guidelines relating to sustainability and on the Executive Sustainability Management Committee of the Oakpar Group Companies, which includes auditors from their respective Audit and Risk Committee and sustainability coordinators from all the subsidiaries, as well as those responsible for integrated reporting.

4.0 SUSTAINABILITY

Oakpar Group and Companies

Oakpar Group ensures the integrity of its economic, environmental, social and governance results, anchored in organizational intelligence, which gives the company the collective capacity for continuous transformation and sustainable development.

As a result of the best market practices with regard to corporate sustainability and social and environmental responsibility, Oakpar Group monitors and permeates the various processes inherent in its business, based on integrated action coordinated with senior management, with a view to incorporating innovations and technologies, managing risks and generating value for all its stakeholders.

INCORPORATION OF

Innovations and Technologies

Oakpar Group anchors its business in the incorporation of technological innovations and high-value solutions that promote the implementation of novelties and/or improvements in the productive or social environment, resulting in new processes, products and services for the Company and its enterprises, which are increasingly digital, sustainable and in rapid transition.

In accordance with its Research, Development and Innovation Policy for the Company and its enterprises, it promotes the systemic and continuous incorporation and implementation of infrastructure and access to information and communication technologies for its entire ecosystem, connecting machines, systems and assets, supported by technological innovations in automation and control.

Through Oakpar Capital, invests in private equity and in the acceleration of start-ups and innovative projects connected to the low-carbon economy, with the aim of developing new digital products and clean technologies, especially those applicable to the sectors in which it operates.

RISK

Management

Oakpar Group operates according to its internal integrity guidelines, based on its mechanisms for identifying, analysing, monitoring and managing strategic, economic-financial, operational, compliance and reputational risks, with the purpose of ensuring the preservation, incorporation and optimisation of the economic value of its companies, assets and capital, as well as to safely conduct the decision-making process related to operations within the sphere of the Company and its subsidiaries, in order to annul any negative externalities referring to and/or linked to its global businesses and operations.

In addition to organizational improvement and effective operational performance, the Governance, Sustainability, Compliance, Risk Management and Internal Controls policies establish the environmental, social and governance criteria to be observed when making decisions and resolutions related to the incorporation, merger and acquisition of assets and companies, leading to the risk ambition of the Board of Directors and Shareholders.

VALUE

Generation

Oakpar Group ensures the generation of sustainable and shared value by basing its management and relations on Prosperity, Planet, People and Partnerships, in accordance with the following pillars:

Prosperity
  • Independent Audit
  • Process Certification
  • Integrated Reporting
  • Fiduciary Duty and Accountability
  • Protection of Intellectual Capital and Intellectual Property
  • Security and Reliability in Operations
  • Respect for Legislation and Internal Integrity Guidelines
  • Respect for Stakeholders’ Interests
  • Financial Return on Invested Capital
  • Dividend Distribution
  • Brand Enhancement
  • Creating Sustainable and Shared Value
People
  • Good Labour Practices
  • Participatory Dialogue
  • Professional Training and Economic Growth
  • Promoting Occupational Health and Well-Being
  • Human Development
  • Employment and Income Generation
  • Inclusion and Social Strengthening
  • Community Involvement and Development
  • Protection of Human Rights
Planet
  • Decarbonisation
  • Conscious Consumption
  • Rational Use of Materialand Natural Resources
  • Promoting a more Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Environmental Conservation and Preservation
Partnerships
  • Fair Price Contracting (Sustainable)
  • Training of Service Providers
  • Fair Operating Practices
  • Responsible Partnerships
  • Synergy with 4.0 Industry

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