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Our supply chain

Responsible sourcing

Business partner onboarding and assurance

Principle: We are committed to sourcing materials and services in a manner that minimises climate, environmental and social impact.

Principle: We seek to only work with business partners whose standards are consistent with our own.

This includes responsible sourcing of biomass and non-biomass materials, land use management, and engaging and supporting business partners in a responsible manner.

We want our business partners to uphold similar ethics, values, and standards (to our own), to carry out their business in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to comply with our Supplier/Business Partner Code (where relevant).

We advocate for safe, fair, and humane working conditions for all workers within our value chain. We don't tolerate human rights breaches – either within Drax or across our supply chains. Wherever there's an impact upon human rights, we believe it's vital to address, mitigate and correct it.

If we work with an individual or organisation that can't uphold our expected standards, we'll take relevant action.

Progressively, through our procurement processes, we will engage across our value chain to measure and reduce our Scope 3 emissions and increase our use of suppliers that have Science Based Targets or equivalent.

What you need to do (where appropriate to your role):

• Comply with our Biomass Responsible Sourcing policy when sourcing biomass
• Comply with our Global Procurement policy when sourcing non-biomass goods or services
• Comply with our Indigenous Peoples policy

We should only enter into contracts with such business partners when relevant due diligence has been satisfactorily completed. This may include various types of due diligence (i.e. Procurement, Business Ethics, Data Protection, Information Security, Sustainability, Credit), on the goods and/or services being procured or sold.

We will monitor our business partners during the lifecycle of our commercial arrangements and will take a risk-based approach to assurance.

What you need to do:

• Follow our Ethical Due Diligence Guide to onboard a business partner
• Drax Procurement/Contract Owners are responsible for ensuring satisfactory due diligence has been concluded prior to entering, or renewing, any commercial/contractual arrangement with a supplier
• Drax Customer teams are responsible for ensuring satisfactory due diligence has been concluded prior to entering, or renewing, any commercial/contractual arrangement with a customer
• Never commit Drax to business or to paying a business partner without ensuring it has been appropriately approved