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Represented by the Board of Management:
Ola Källenius, Chairman; Jörg Burzer, Renata Jungo Brüngger, Sabine Kohleisen, Markus Schäfer, Britta Seeger, Hubertus Troska, Harald Wilhelm
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Martin Brudermüller
Court of Registry: Stuttgart; commercial register no. 762873
VAT ID: DE 32 12 81 763
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Raw Material Report
For Mercedes-Benz, respecting human rights and environmental standards is non-negotiable. The Raw Material Report outlines our activities to respect human rights and to mitigate environmental risks in raw material supply chains. It is another step towards greater transparency and an example for our efforts to continuously improve.
We pursue the goal of ensuring that our products only contain raw materials and materials that have been mined and produced without violating any human rights and environmental standards. In our Integrity Code and our Principles of Social Responsibility and Human Rights, we commit ourselves to respect and uphold all internationally recognized human rights within our company as well as throughout our supply chain. Monitoring the supply chains of these raw materials is therefore a high priority for us. With our Mercedes-Benz Human Rights Respect System (HRRS) we have developed a due diligence approach to identify and avoid these risks and possible negative effects of our business activities on human rights early on.
Learn more about our goals in the sustainability report.
We acknowledge our responsibility in procurement of production and non-production materials and services, aiming to ensure a Mercedes-Benz vehicle is produced without violating human rights or harming the environment. This can only succeed if we strive for maximum transparency about the upstream stages of the value chain. Of course, this can only be achieved step by step, measure by measure. Due to the complexity of the supply chains and the large number of raw materials and materials in our products, Mercedes-Benz takes a risk-based and strategic approach.
We analyze 24 critical raw materials on human rights and environmental risks and take measures to reduce these risks. By 2025, we plan to assess 70 percent of the 24 raw materials identified by us. By 2028, appropriate measures for the prevention, reduction, or termination of violations of human rights and environmental standards should be defined for all critical raw materials.
In 2022 the first “Raw Material Report” published the assessments for the first six raw materials aluminum, cobalt, lithium, mica, tin and tungsten. Throughout the year 2023, the scope of the Raw Material Report has grown to over 15 raw materials, and in 2024, two new raw materials have been added. The latest Raw Material Report gives more insights on how we work with our direct business partners to drive effective due diligence management systems in the supply chain. On top of that, we improved the methodology by adding raw material specific “Theories of Change”. This comprehensive method is built on results from previous assessment steps such as the raw material analysis, the risk assessment, the supply chain evaluation as well as from stakeholder feedback. It aims to strategically identify and plan activities to mitigate significant risks in our raw material supply chains by helping us to better understand the root causes of environmental and human rights risks in the industry. We have chosen the example of lithium to illustrate, how we are integrating environmental risk areas such as water, air and biodiversity into a framework originating from human rights due diligence thinking.