Approach to environmental issues

The Śnieżka Group systematically and responsibly manages the impact of its activities on the natural environment. Issues related to environmental protection and impact on the climate are regulated by the Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety Policy of the Śnieżka Group, the Śnieżka 2023+ Sustainable Development Strategy (described in the Report in item 10.2.2) and the Climate Policy of the Śnieżka Group.

During the reporting period, the Śnieżka Group companies did not commit any non-compliance in the field of environmental protection and did not incur any related fines. The Group did not incur any financial or non-financial sanctions for violating environmental laws or regulations, and the Group’s activities in relation to it were not the subject of any complaints regarding a negative impact on its resources.

Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety Policy of the Śnieżka Group

The policy covers the Group’s value chain at its upstream and downstream levels, own operations and supporting activities primarily in Poland, but also in Ukraine, Hungary and Belarus. In accordance with its provisions, the Śnieżka Group companies strive to reduce their impact on the natural environment through the following:

  • continuous formal and legal supervision and implementation of obligations set out in environmental decisions,
  • efficient use of raw materials and energy,
  • normative emission of pollutants to air, water and soil,
  • rational waste and packaging management,
  • applying solutions that improve the operational safety of technological installations.

The policy obliges the Group’s companies to monitor the impact on the environment on an on-going basis and keep records of data on the use of the environment, including media consumption, pollutant emissions as well as waste generated and packaging introduced. The Group has all the necessary environmental decisions, pays fees for the use of the environment and participates in the creation and maintenance of a system for collecting, transporting, recovering or neutralizing packaging waste generated from the introduced packaging.

  • reduction of harmful impact on the environment,
  • promotion of environmental awareness among employees, contractors, customers and the local community,
  • designing products to minimize their impact on the environment at as many stages of the product’s life as possible,
  • using raw materials and components only from qualified suppliers, using technologies and producing environmentally friendly products,
  • quality control at individual stages of the production process,
  • preventing environmental failures through constant monitoring of equipment and systems,
  • striving to constantly improve occupational health and safety.

All companies comprising the Śnieżka Group are obliged to comply with it. Supervision over its compliance is performed by the Quality and Climate Management Department, and in the field of occupational health and safety – by the Occupational Safety Department. It obliges all subsidiaries of the Śnieżka Group to communicate its provisions to employees.

When implementing the provisions of the Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety Policy, the Group companies apply a number of good practices in the field of environmental protection, including: effective use of raw materials, water and energy, emissions of pollutants into the air, as well as waste and packaging management

The best recipes and technological solutions are searched, the use of which is to reduce the Group's impact on the natural environment and employee safety. All new investments of the Group are based on the best technological solutions and take into account the above assumptions.

Due to the production nature of operations of the Group companies – which has a direct impact on the natural environment – the Group is obliged to hold appropriate operating licenses. The Group’s production facilities in individual locations are strictly dependent on the permits, which set out specific conditions for using the environment.

Climate Policy of the Śnieżka Group

The document defines the Śnieżka Group’s approach to managing the impact of its activities on the climate throughout the entire value chain. The Policy expands environmental protection issues to include climate-related issues and is a complement to the Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety Policy of the Śnieżka Group. The document presents climate goals and information on the manner of managing and mitigating climate risks by Śnieżka.

The starting point for work on the Climate Policy and the provisions of the Śnieżka 2023+ Sustainable Development Strategy was the analysis of risks related to the impact on the environment and climate and parallel recognition of the impact of climate change on the Capital Group. The TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) Guidelines and the analysis of emissions under Scope 1, 2 and 3 developed on the basis of the GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gas Protocol) were used for this purpose.

In its approach to climate change, the Group places great emphasis on data analysis, based on which it sets long-term reduction targets. This approach applies to strategic decisions and operational activities throughout the entire value chain: starting from research and development processes (work on a portfolio of products with the lowest possible environmental impact), selection and purchase of raw materials, through efficiency and optimization of production, logistics and storage, and ending with sales and marketing processes.

The Group has set the following strategic objectives corresponding to the priority areas of climate impact:

In order to be able to define priority actions in the field of consumption reduction, tools, systems and processes for measuring energy consumption are implemented in the Group companies.

As part of the expansion of the management system, the Group intends to introduce full metering of energy consumption broken down by locations, buildings and processes. Based on the analysis of the obtained data, projects contributing to the best results in terms of energy efficiency will be defined and implemented.

Purchase and/or generation of green energy by investing in our own photovoltaic system.

The Group’s carbon footprint is calculated in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) standard and covers scopes 1, 2 and 3 for all the Group companies.
Based on the calculations, the Group develops a long-term reduction plan.

Data on the Group’s emissions in all three scopes in 2023 can be found in the Report in item 10.3.3.1.

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