GRI Index

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Mercedes-Benz Group locations

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AR > Business model
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Our vehicles generally contain several thousand parts and components, and our supply chain is correspondingly complex. It comprises around 40,000 direct suppliers for production and non-production materials, with most of them based in Europe, North America and Asia. These suppliers in turn have sub-suppliers, and sometimes a supply chain can contain up to seven or eight sub-levels, with additional sub-suppliers on each level. With every innovation and every market development, the supply chain dynamically develops further — and this also occurred during the reporting period.

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(PDF:) Memberships and participation

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(PDF:) Memberships and participation

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Corporate Governance
AR > Combined Management Report
AR > Fundamental change in the corporate structure

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AR > Targets and comparison parameters of variable components of the remuneration of the Board of Management

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AR > Overall profiles of requirements for the composition of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board

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AR > Corporate Governance
Remuneration report

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AR > Report of the Supervisory Board

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Remuneration of the Supervisory Board
Remuneration of the Board of Management

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SR > People
SR > Resource conservation
AR > Combined Management Report

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AR > Risk and opportunity management
AR > Non-financial declaration

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SR > People
SR > Resource conservation
AR > Non-financial declaration

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SR > Integrity and compliance
AR > Non-financial declaration

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Remuneration report

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Remuneration report

Remuneration report

Remuneration report

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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Changes in reporting

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AR > Financial position
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AR > Risk and opportunity report

AR > Combined Management Report
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AR > Refinancing

Remuneration report

Remuneration report

Remuneration report

Ratios of standard entry level wage by gender compared to local minimum wage

Information about the minimum wages across countries in which the Group’s companies are located is not centrally available. The “standard entry salaries” are specific to particular groups within the workforce (e.g. industrial employees, university graduates, temporary workers during vacations etc.) As many of our companies are bound by collective bargaining agreements, and also because employee remuneration is market-oriented, the standard entry salaries do generally lie above the minimum wages.

Proportion of senior management hired from the local community

The proportion of senior managers who are recruited from a local community is defined locally in the respective sales market or at the production location. The percentage of managers in this category can currently not be determined centrally for the entire Group.

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Significant indirect economic impacts

Comprehensive data about the indirect economic impacts are currently not available. We are steadily working to improve our knowledge about indirect external impacts. As part of the materiality analysis conducted in 2020, we, among other things, comprehensively assessed the potential or actual positive and negative effects of our business operations on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Proportion of spending on local suppliers

The cooperation with the suppliers at our locations is variable. It is governed by our central purchasing standards, which serve as orientation guidelines for the units that purchase production materials and non-production materials. Specific information about specific purchasing volumes cannot be provided by the current database.

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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SR > Integrity and compliance
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The information is not categorised according to the plant/business activity because the point of reference for our risk assessment is the level of the entity – in other words, the legal unit or the management unit. As a result of the risk assessment, the Mercedes-Benz Group assigns each controlled unit a final risk level that is based on all of that unit’s business activities.

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A differentiation or break down of the data by region would not be meaningful because the Mercedes-Benz Group is organised by divisions and not by region.

205-2 a and d) This also applies to the Supervisory Board, the central controlling body of Mercedes-Benz Group AG.

205-2 b) The corporate principles and code of conduct are contained in the Integrity Code of the Mercedes-Benz Group. Compliance with all applicable laws, e.g. for the prevention of corruption, is one of the principles of conduct. The Integrity Code is binding on all employees of Mercedes-Benz Group AG and our controlled Group companies and is made available in the uniform rules and policies database. This is the reason why the information is not broken down by region and employee category.

205-2 c) We also formulate clear compliance requirements for our business partners via our Business Partner Standards. These also contain the fundamentals of anti-corruption activities. For strategic reasons, we do not communicate our business partners’ specific key figures regarding anti-corruption activities. The Business Partner Standards are published on the website and thus openly accessible to all.

205-2 e) We publish the absolute number of employees who were trained in corruption-prevention methods during the reporting year. The defined cycles for these training courses are oriented according to the regularly assessed need for them. This is based on criteria such as the business model, the location in a specific high-risk country, and the functions. Because of this systematic training strategy, the Mercedes-Benz Group does not believe that publishing the percentage of participating employees compared to our total workforce or breaking them down by region would be meaningful. Not all employees have the same need for these training courses, and therefore such figures should not be used as the basis for determining the rate of participation in corruption-prevention training courses.

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205-3 a) The number of cases of corruption is reported in the Compliance management chapter. Additional information about the type of corruption is not provided. We do not give any details about the cases, due to the need to protect the privacy of the individuals affected and of the people who provide the information.

205-3 b and d) Generally, the Mercedes-Benz Group does not provide any information about human resources measures taken against employees. We are convinced that providing such information would contravene our employees’ personal rights as well as our duty of care as an employer. Because of the small number of cases of corruption that are publicly reported, it would be possible to deduce the human resources measures taken against individuals affected. Irrespective of this policy, the Mercedes-Benz Group does not receive any information about the outcome of any criminal proceedings against employees. The company is not a participant in such criminal proceedings. As a result, we cannot make any statements as to whether or not an accusation of corruption has been confirmed in criminal proceedings.

205-3 c) The Mercedes-Benz Group generally does not make any statements about the total number of confirmed cases in which it terminated or refused to extend contracts with business partners either extraordinarily or in connection with corruption. The underlying reasons for this policy are as follows: Because of the small number of individual cases — in relation to the entire sales network of the Group — it would be possible to identify the business partners in question in a certain region. Such a procedure would not be compatible with the professional confidentiality provisions regarding business partners.

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SR > Integrity and compliance
AR > Risk and opportunity report

SR > Sustainable corporate governance
AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

Country-by-country reporting

In line with OECD guidelines, the Mercedes-Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG) has been submitting to Germany’s Federal Central Tax Office a country-by-country (CbC) report as the Ultimate Parent Entity for the whole group since financial year 2016. The CbC report is distributed to all participating tax authorities around the globe on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements. Also in line with OECD guidelines, the current Council Directive (EU) 2016/881 and German tax law, the Mercedes-Benz Group chooses to forgo general publication of its CbC reports, as the required transparency vis-à-vis fiscal authorities, which are able to appreciate the content of the figures and data, has already been guaranteed.

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We are currently measuring the use of metals and non-metals in our vehicles. At the moment it is not yet possible for the Group as a whole to break down the total weight of its vehicles into renewable and non-renewable materials. In the future we want to continually expand the use of renewable materials and integrate them into our calculation methods.

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We are currently reporting the data at the individual vehicle level. Information on all materials and fleets is not currently available.

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No information about recycled products and their packaging materials is available, because our vehicles are delivered without any packaging material.

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SR > Climate protection
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SR > Climate protection
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SR > Key figures environment

302-1 c) Our Energy Monitoring Tool also records energy consumption by the energy carriers that the Mercedes-Benz Group purchases externally. Other energy conversions within the plants to final energy in the form of (cold, heat, steam, compressed air, etc. (ii-iv)) are not specified further. The conversion losses are all recorded at the Mercedes-Benz Group.

302-1 d) Sold energy is recorded as a transfer to third parties and is already subtracted in the published energy consumption.

302-1 f) Energy consumption is recorded worldwide by a data collection tool and aggregated for reporting purposes. The data basis is provided by calculations or measurements. Expert estimates are taken into account for individual cases if calculations or measurements are not (yet) available.

302-1 g) Conversion factors are taken from location-specific calculations (e.g. calorific values) or derived from standard accounting standards.

Energy consumption outside of the organization

Because there is currently no international guideline for the determination of energy consumption in Scope 3, we have no such data at the Mercedes-Benz Group at present. We want to create a possible data collection and calculation system in the medium term. We collect information about the energy consumption outside the Group indirectly via the Scope 3 emissions. Our ascertainment of the Scope 3 emissions complies with the international guideline according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

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SR > Key figures environment

The specific values in the key figures tool are calculated on the basis of our consolidated production locations’ quotient of absolute energy consumption (excluding fuels) and the number of vehicles produced, with regard to the respective division. In the category of energy consumption we also take into account our production locations for major assemblies, components, and CKD vehicles. The unit figures only include vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz Group (excluding production from other companies).

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303-1 a and b) One of the central themes of our environmental management is the responsible use of water with regard to its sourcing, consumption, discharge, and effects due to wastewater and process water. Examples of our measures for the efficient use of water are described in the chapter “Efficient water utilisation”. The status of our international data regarding water does not currently allow us to provide a more differentiated overall account of process water-related impacts. We are planning to standardise and improve the data situation in the medium term.

303-1 c) We expect our suppliers to work with an environmental management system certified according to ISO 14001 or EMAS that includes relevant KPIs and processes relating to the topic of water. We require that our direct suppliers commit themselves to conforming to our sustainability standards, communicating them to their employees and their upstream value chains and ensuring compliance with them. This is intended to improve the water stewardship in our supply chain.

303-1 d) The Group Sustainability Board (GSB) is our central management body for all sustainability issues and reports regularly to the Board of Management. It works and decides on relevant sustainability issues, including water, and commissions the Sustainability Competence Office (SCO). The SCO coordinates and controls sustainability activities across the Group and acts as a preparatory and advisory body for the top management on the GSB. The GSB debates and takes decisions concerning sustainability topics. These include the Group's Sustainable Business Strategy and its implementation in the business areas.

303-1 e) For our production sites around the world, we have set ourselves targets for reducing water consumption per vehicle, for which we collect key figures on a monthly basis. The GSB regularly examines these key figures and the achievement of goals and is the top management body for this.

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303-3 a) The water comes from various sources, which is recorded by the production locations worldwide. That includes water from public utilities, well water, surface water, rainwater, and groundwater from site remediation. Seawater isn’t used. All amounts are for fresh water. This data is available in the overview of the key indicators of our corporate environmental protection measures.

303-3 b) The first analyses according to the WWF Water Risk Filter were carried out at some production sites in 2021. Figures for water abstraction in all areas suffering from water stress are not currently available.

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303-4 a) Wastewater flows are recorded at the production sites depending on the treatment technology. When collecting data at Group level, a distinction is made between direct and indirect discharge.

303-4 b) The status of our international data regarding water does not currently allow us to provide a more differentiated overall account of water discharge. We are planning to standardise and improve the data situation in the medium term.

303-4 c) The first analyses according to the WWF Water Risk Filter were carried out at some production sites in 2021. Figures for water abstraction in all areas suffering from water stress are not currently available.

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303-5 a) The total consumption of water is recorded in our environmental data management system and shown in our key figures for corporate environmental protection. Information regarding water consumption is primarily included in the key figures for the specific water consumption per vehicle produced.

303-5 b) The first analyses according to the WWF Water Risk Filter were carried out at some production sites in 2021. Figures for water abstraction in all areas suffering from water stress are not currently available.

303-5 c) Water storage data is not collected.

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SR > Calculation and documentation of CO₂ emissions

The base year 2018 for the CO₂ reduction target was chosen according to the criteria of the Science Based Targets Initiative for the selection of a base year. Accordingly, the last year should be selected for which a representative database is available. In 2018 the Scope-1 emissions amounted to 650,000 tons of CO₂.

The CO₂ emissions from the use of fossil fuels at production sites of the Mercedes-Benz Group are accounted for and reported in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The appendix "Calculation and documentation of CO₂ emissions" explains the assessment approach as well as the associated assumptions and limits.

The data for biogenic CO₂ emissions were not collected separately for 2021, because these emissions are only produced to a small amount. It is expected that Ambition 2039 will lead to an increase in the use of biogenic fuels at the company. Biogenic CO₂ emissions are to be recorded accordingly in the future.

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SR > Calculation and documentation of CO₂ emissions

The CO₂ emissions from the use of fossil fuels at production sites of the Mercedes-Benz Group are accounted for and reported in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The appendix "Calculation and documentation of CO₂ emissions" explains the assessment approach as well as the associated assumptions and limits.
The data for biogenic CO₂ emissions were not collected separately for 2021, because these emissions are only produced to a small amount. It is expected that Ambition 2039 will lead to an increase in the use of biogenic fuels at the company. Biogenic CO₂ emissions are to be recorded accordingly in the future.

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SR > Calculation and documentation of CO₂ emissions

See GRI 305-1: Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions for the explanatory notes regarding the selection of the base year.

Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS)

The legal regulations concerning the emission of ozone-depleting substances are complied with at all Mercedes-Benz Group production sites. However, we cannot exclude the possible emission of very small amounts of ozone-depleting substances. These emissions would be within the legally permissible limits, and we therefore do not separately collect the relevant data.

Nitrogen oxides (NO_X), sulfur oxides (SO_X), and other significant air emissions

Depending on the production processes, our production locations record the parameters NO_X, SO₂, particulate and VOC emissions in kg. However, no data concerning slowly degradable organic substances are collected at our locations.

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At present, no data is collected as to whether waste is treated for further processing on site or elsewhere.

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SR > Key figures environment

In general, the waste is collected by a waste disposal company and an approved waste processing firm then processes the waste at a different location.

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SR > Climate protection
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SR > Resource conservation

In 2021 we conducted a total of 805 on-site checks at suppliers of production materials in order to determine whether they had an environmental management system according to ISO 14001. In the medium term we are planning to cooperate even more closely with our suppliers and sensitise them to environmental issues.

SR > Climate protection
SR > Resource conservation

Due to the large number of suppliers, the complexity of the entire supply chain and the challenging task of gaining an overview, we cannot provide any absolute and percentage data regarding actual or potential negative environmental impacts by our suppliers. As part of our efforts to make our supply chains more transparent, we are also continuing to strive to gain a better overview of any negative impacts on the environment.

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SR > Key figures Human Resources

Our human resources system does not currently track information on new employee hires according to age groups or regions.

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SR > Key figures Human Resources

Our human resources system does not currently track the total number of employees who were still employed twelve months after their return to work from parental leave or the retention rates of these employees. However, we have numerous measures in place to ensure job security as well as opportunities for further professional development for all of our employees returning from parental leave.

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Minimum notice periods regarding operational changes

According to the German Works Council Constitution Act, the works council must be informed about major operational changes in a timely manner. However, this Act does not define a precise deadline for providing this information.

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AR > Non-financial declaration

SR > People
AR > Non-financial declaration

SR > People
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AR > Non-financial declaration

The Mercedes-Benz Group operates on the basis of globally uniform guidelines for risk prevention. Our occupational health and safety policy (A30.2) and our occupational health and safety guidelines serve as overarching, internationally valid Group regulations. They are based on international standards and national laws and emphasise the managers’ obligation to act responsibly. However, they also underscore the employees’ own responsibility. Policy A30.2 covers all Group companies. It is binding on all employees and members of governance bodies at Mercedes-Benz Group and all controlled Group companies.

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All of our employees have to take on personal responsibility for health and occupational safety by performing their work in a safety-conscious manner. We respect the employees’ right to withdraw from work situations in which they can understandably assume that they face a clear and present danger to their lives or health. In such situations, they are protected against unjustified consequences. Unsafe conditions and near accidents must be reported to the location’s manager and are addressed on the shop floor. We record information about work accidents, risks and near accidents in our systems medAS and SAFE. We have our employees contribute to the design of their workstations, their working environments and their work processes in order to continuously improve them.

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At each of our locations we have established occupational safety committees in which employees can participate. At the Mercedes-Benz Group, temporary employees are subject to the same regulations as regular employees. Temporary employees can also raise issues in the committees.

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SR > People

In order to prevent and mitigate negative impacts on occupational safety in external companies, we adhere to a variety of safety regulations, such as our “A30 – Occupational Health and Safety” policy, as well as the applicable legal regulations. The process of instructing and monitoring external companies with external employees is being implemented as required. In addition, the Business Partner Standards (BPS) also describe safety and health-related requirements for the workstations of employees from business partners.

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The scope of application of the occupational health and safety policy (A30.2) ensures that all employees are covered by a management system for occupational health and safety. External companies are also instructed and monitored in this respect.

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SR > Key figures Human Resources

As part of our local risk management process for occupational safety risks, the Corporate Safety unit conducts safety risk management measures at our Group-owned production facilities. Together with Corporate Environmental Protection, safety engineers from the Corporate Safety Department conduct due diligence audits at all of our Group-owned production facilities every five years or so. The audit covers the implementation of our corporate policy for occupational health and safety; external employees and external companies are also included in the auditing scope. For reasons of confidentiality, the figures regarding risk management are not published.

Work-related ill health

Data on work-related ill health are not collected at the international level. For Germany, these data are held by the employers’ liability insurance association, which does not break down the data according to individual companies.

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SR > Key figures Human Resources

We report key figures on training and professional development or qualification days per employee on average for the entire workforce. In addition, we also provide the average training days per employee for our female workforce. A breakdown according to other employee categories does not take place in the system.

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The exact percentage is not currently determined. We comprehensively ensure that our employees’ performance is regularly assessed by means of various measures at different management levels.

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AR > Corporate Governance

SR > People
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For reasons of confidentiality, we do not publish any statistical information about cases of discrimination.

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SR > Human rights
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We do not currently record the percentage of employees who are trained in the organisation’s specific human rights processes and their application in the area of security.

In the area of security services, we work with service providers. These service providers are obligated to respect human rights in accordance with our sustainability standards. All of our external service providers have access to our Compliance Awareness module, which includes a special chapter dealing with corporate responsibility in the area of human rights. We do not publish any information (in absolute figures or percentages) about completion of the Compliance Awareness module by external service providers. We want to ensure that the relevant managers, their employees and the providers of security services are well-versed regarding the Group’s requirements with respect to human rights. To ensure this, we include these policies in the standard internal regulations and in the existing contracts with suppliers and providers of security services. We also continually review these contracts.

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SR > Integrity and compliance
AR > Non-financial declaration

The number of completed training courses is recorded. Because there are a number of human rights-related training modules, it’s not possible to give the number of employees or the corresponding percentage figure.

Significant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening

For reasons of confidentiality regarding our business partners, we do not publish any specific details about investment agreements and contracts with our partners.

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SR > Partnerships

The Mercedes-Benz Group is active at all major business locations. Most of the societally and socially beneficial activities of our business locations are decentrally organised and implemented. As a result, there is no central collection of data that could be used to calculate the percentage of business locations where measures that involve local communities have been implemented. All activities are recorded in our donation and sponsorship database. Information about centrally coordinated activities can be found in the “Social commitment” section of this report.

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SR > Human rights
AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

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AR > Non-financial declaration

Due to the large number of suppliers, the complexity of the entire supply chain and the challenging task of gaining an overview, we cannot provide any absolute or percentage data regarding actual or potential human rights violations by our suppliers. As part of our efforts to make our supply chains more transparent, we are also continuing to strive to gain a better overview of any impacts on society.

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SR > Traffic safety
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We use strict quality management systems and checks to determine the safety of all of our vehicles.

Incidents of non-compliance concerning the health and safety impacts of products and services

Our technical Compliance Management System (tCMS) serves to identify risks within the product creation process (product development and certification) at an early stage and to implement preventive measures. The tCMS defines values, principles, structures and processes in order to provide our employees with guidance and orientation especially with regard to challenging questions on how to interpret technical regulations. If vehicles held by customers exhibit anomalies with regard to safety, conformity or emissions, our processes for evaluating and regulating such situations in the field come into play. We respond to such situations by performing customer service activities, for example, or by recalling vehicles, if necessary.

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There is no total number of submitted and substantiated complaints of customer data privacy violations at the global level, because such an abstract figure is of no significance for the company.

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AR > Legal proceedings
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