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Corporate Report 2018
The Corporate Report for 2018 encompasses the annual and
sustainability reports. 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 man-
agement and the progress the Group has made in implement-
ing it in the past fiscal year. As a result, this report for
2018 updates the content that was published in the 2017
Corporate Report (published on March 16, 2018). At
the same time, it serves as the annual Communication on
Progress of Global Compact.
The Reporting Period
All financial and human-resource information in the Group
Management Report and the Consolidated Financial Statements
for 2018 refer 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 January 1 and December 31, 2018
(previous year: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017).
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 speci-
fications of the International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS), as adopted by the EU, and the additional requirements
of German commercial law pursuant to section 315 e
of the German Commercial Code (HGB). As in the previ-
ous years, this 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_2018.
This corporate report has been prepared in accordance
with the GRI Standards: Comprehensive option. It is also oriented
to the International Integrated Reporting Council’s
(IIRC) reporting framework. In 2018, ALTANA did not have the
key performance indicators based on the standards of
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) tested by an independent
auditor. Detailed information is available online at
www.altana.com/facts_figures_sustainability_2018.
Information on the selection of content based on GRI
Standards 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 criteria based on the GRI
Standards that ALTANA provides information about is avail-
able online at www.altana.com/facts_figures_sustain-
ability_2018.
This report is available in German and English.
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