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Integrated Annual and Sustainability
Report 2016
With this report on the 2016 fiscal year, ALTANA is presenting
an integrated annual and sustainability report for the first
time. With it, the ALTANA
Group informs the public, its employees
and business partners,
as well as public authorities,
nongovernmental organizations, and all other interested parties
about the Group’s development in economic, ecological,
and social respects. In addition to the Group Management
Report and the Consolidated
Financial Statements
(condensed version), as well as information
on the Group’s
corporate governance, this report contains a description
of ALTANA’s understanding of sustainable management and
the progress the Group has made in implementing it in
the past fiscal year. As a result, this integrated report 2016
updates the content that was published in the 2015 Annual
Report (published on March 17, 2016) and the 2015
Sustainability Report (published on June 30, 2016). At the
same time, it serves as annual
Communication on Progress
(COP) on ALTANA’s implementation of the principles of the
United Nations Global Compact Initiative.
The Reporting Period
The facts and key performance indicators included in this
report are based on different reporting periods.
As in the previous year, all financial and human resource
information in the 2016 Group Management Report and
the Consolidated Financial Statements refers to the period
from January 1 to December 31.
The reporting period for the environmental key performance
indicators changed. They are based on values that
were collected between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016
(previous year: October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015). As
in the previous year, the data on occupational health and
safety refer to the period from January 1 to December 31.
Reporting Principles
In terms of the Group Management Report and the Consolidated
Financial Statements, the report adheres to the
specifications
of the International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) as adopted by the EU and the additional requirements
of German commercial law pursuant to section
315a of the German Commercial Code (HGB). As in the
previous years, this procedure was audited and confirmed by
an independent auditor. The complete Consolidated Financial
Statements including the Notes to the Consolidated Financial
Statements are available online at www.altana.com/consolidated_
financial_statements_2016.
In addition, this report is based on the G4 guidelines of
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the “Comprehensive”
option. The report is also based on the International
Integrated
Reporting Council’s (IIRC) reporting framework. In
2016, ALTANA did not have the key performance indicators
for the G4 specifications tested by an independent auditor.
Detailed information is available online at www.altana.com/
sustainability_performance_indicators_2016.
Information on the selection of content relevant to GRI
G4 and regarding the definition of sustainability issues
important
for the ALTANA Group and its stakeholders can
be found in the “Sustainability Management” section
(page 7 of this report). A detailed list of all GRI G4 criteria
that ALTANA
provides information about is available online
at www.altana.com/gri_index_2016.
This report is available in German and English.
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