Responsible Business Supply Chain Policy
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BRPL is committed to the principle of responsible sourcing throughout the supply chain. BRPL understand that there are risks of associated with extracting, trading, handling and exporting minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas, and we recognize that we have the responsibility to respect human rights and not contribute to conflict, and protect the environmentIt will implement these principles by :
- Establishing processes to prevent use of its organization in money laundering operation or crimnal activities. These would be based on the guidelines set forth by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) Guidance and Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict Affected and High-Risk Area, third edition.
- Ensuring that minerals originating from notified regions that are mined to benefit armed groups or to finance conflict‚ are not used in its products. This includes illegal financial support got by armed groups (non government/ private) through the extraction, transport, trade or export of mineral.
- Our endeavour is to ensure that the actors in the supply chain are not involved in violation of international humanitarian law, human rights abuse in any forms of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, forced or compulsory labour, child labour, and sexual violence.
- Additional steps will be taken to ensure that the miners have paid the taxes, fees and royalties due to government and has not fraudulent misrepresentation of the origin of minerals. Steps will be taken to ensure that the miners and other actors are not involved in bribery related to the metals.
- Including measures to assess and mitigate the risk of financing terrorism within the supply chain, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
- Implementing a comprehensive management system that encompasses strict risk based due diligence before entering into new commercial relationships as well as continuous monitoring of transactions on a risk based approach.
- Widely disseminate and incorporate in contracts and/or agreements, with suppliers the following policy on responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.
- Further BRPL is committed to support measures to create a Gold Supply chain from mines to market that will be responsible, secure, transparent and verifiable by establishing long-term relationships with precious metals suppliers and customers.
- BRPL will perform appropriate due diligence of our counterparties before conducting any business with them. We will also conduct periodic monitoring of the relationship in order to assess the risk of contribution to conflict, money laundering and serious human rights abuse and implement a strategy to respond to identified risk and maintain adequate records to demonstrate that appropriate and ongoing due diligence have been followed.
- BRPL will encourage and assist it’s suppliers to be part of the Larger Global supply chain for responsible gold. If some suppliers are found to have minor infractions, steps will be taken to help them correct the same. If it's not feasible then such business relationships will be terminated.
- Any action required to be undertaken under this Policy shall be taken by the Compliance Officer in accordance with this Policy. The Compliance Officer shall have a functional reporting to the Designated Director. Aggravated cases of breach of this AML Policy shall be escalated to the Board of Directors of our Company through the Designated Director. Please send an email to umesh@bangalorerefinery.com for any query regarding this policy.
NOTE: The above policy is implemented with effect from 22 July 2023.
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