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 Group 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."

"Suppliers will comply with all applicable local, national and international laws, regulations, treaties and industry standards" "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"

Reports volumes 2015-2019 in their 2019 CSR report. In 2019 the volumes were as follows: "Production paper (t): 34,599. Sustainable content (%): 100.

"Suppliers will authorize RELX and its designated agents, auditors and third party representatives to engage in monitoring activities to confirm compliance with this Code of Conduct, including unannounced on-site inspections of Supplier’s and its subcontractors’ employment sites and employer-provided housing"

"Through our SRS database, we track key suppliers and those located in medium and high-risk countries as designated by our supplier risk tool. This incorporates ten indicators ... The tracking list changes year-on-year based on the suppliers we engage to meet the needs of our business. In 2019, there were 354 suppliers on the SRS tracking list, of which 102 are in high and medium risk countries. At year end, 91% of suppliers on the tracking list were signatories to our Supplier Code. Of the 33 non-signatories, 9 suppliers are in high or medium risk countries. 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"

"An incidence of noncompliance triggers continuous improvement reports summarising audit results, with remediation plans and submission dates agreed and signed by both the auditor and the supplier [...] 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.”

In 2019, there were354 suppliers on the SRS tracking list, of which 102 are in highand medium risk countries. At year end, 91% of suppliers on thetracking list were signatories to our Supplier Code. Of the 33non-signatories, 9 suppliers are in high or medium risk countries.We continue to work with non-signatories to gain agreement toour Code, and/or assess whether they have equivalent standardsin place, in order to ultimately decide whether to continue doingbusiness with them. We have embedded the Supplier Code intoour sourcing process, and have a total of 3,202 suppliers whohave agreed to the Supplier Code in 2019, up from 3,082 in 2018.