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Federation of Migros Cooperativesfausta.borsani@mgb.ch

+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“