RELX Group

"We expect all of our suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and business partners along with their subsidiaries, affiliates, sub-contractors, and recruitment agencies (jointly “Suppliers”), to make these same commitments based on the 10 Principles of the United Nations Global Compact and in alignment with the Declaration on Human Rights and ILO standards. At a minimum, we require that all RELX Suppliers meet the following standards:..."

"Suppliers will not discriminate in hiring or employment practices, terms or conditions, including compensation, benefits, advancement, discipline, termination or retirement, and will not discriminate in sourcing, on the basis of race, religion, age, nationality, social or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, political opinion, disability, or any other category protected by law"

"Independent external audits of high risk suppliers, as determined by SRS programme criteria, such as those operating in areas where human rights, labour, environmental, corruption or other abuses have been known to occur, are performed on a regular basis. Results are communicated to suppliers along with any remediation required; remediation target dates are agreed and follow-up audits are performed to ensure issues identified have been resolved."

"RELX Group and its businesses are committed to: Comply with relevant legislation"[...]"We engage a specialist supply chain auditor who undertook 93 external audits on our behalf in 2019. Incidence of noncompliance triggers continuous improvement reports summarising auditresults, with remediation plans and submission dates agreedand signed by both the auditor and the supplier. Areas coveredin the audit include: [...] legal compliance" [...] "We work with our suppliers to purchase paper from well managed forests and known and legal sources. We support credible independent certification and we reject illegal logging of old growth forests and the use of any species on the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora) list or the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) red list. "

Reports volumes 2017-2021 in their 2021 CSR report. In 2021 the volumes were as follows: "Production paper (t): 40,910. Sustainable content (%): 98.

"Through our SRS database, we track suppliers[...] located in medium- and high-risk locations, as designated by a tool we developed with Carnstone. The tool incorporates 11 indicators[...] The tracking list changes year-on-year based on the suppliers we engage to meet the needs of our business. In 2021, there were 359 suppliers on the SRS tracking list, of which 44 are operating in high-risk locations and 50 in medium-risk locations. At year end, 96% of suppliers on the tracking list were signatories to our Supplier Code. We continue to work with non-signatories to gain agreement to our Code, and/or assess whether they have equivalent standards in place, in order to ultimately decide whether to continue doing business with them. "

"Incidence of non-compliance triggers continuous improvement reports summarising audit results, with agreed remediation plans and submission dates."[...]"The Supplier Code states, “Failure to comply with any RELX term, condition, requirement, policy or procedure…may result in the cancellation of all existing orders and termination of the business relationship between RELX and supplier."

"n 2021, there were 359 suppliers on the SRS tracking list, of which 44 are operating in high-risk locations and 50 in medium-risk locations. At year end, 96% of suppliers on the tracking list were signatories to our Supplier Code. We continue to work with non-signatories to gain agreement to our Code, and/or assess whether they have equivalent standards in place, in order to ultimately decide whether to continue doing business with them. We have embedded the Supplier Code into our sourcing processes and have a total of 3,670 suppliers who agreed to the Supplier Code in 2021, up from 3,457 in 2020."