Promoting Green Procurement
In order to supply products to our customers that are even more eco-friendly, we conduct
eco-friendly procurement of raw materials, parts and packing materials used for our products.

Promoting Environmental Management Systems at Business Partner Sites
Since the beginning of our Second Environmental Action Plan in 2001, we have been requesting our business partners cooperation inconstructing their own environmental management systems (EMS), and we have prioritized procurement from business partners whoconduct eco-conscious business activities.

Aim of the Fourth Environmental Action Plan
Promoting environmental management systems (EMS) at business partner sites＋Raw materials and parts that are free of the hazardous
chemical substances designated by us
Raw materials and parts that do not contain harmful chemical
substances are procured as a part of our quality assurance
program.

Requirement Levels for the Establishment of an EMS
Requirements
Requirements surpassing ISO 14001 requirements

LevelⅤ Eco-Stages 3 to 5

Fulﬁlling the majority of ISO 14001 requirements(can be mutually certiﬁed with Eco-Action 21)

LevelⅣ ISO 14001, Eco-Action 21, Eco-Stage 2,
KES Step 2 and Michinoku EMS

Simpliﬁed ISO 14001 requirements

LevelⅢ (cannot be mutually certiﬁed with Eco-Action 21)
Eco-Stage 1, KES Step 1

Only the basic PDCA elements ofThird Party Certiﬁed EMS

During the Third Environmental Action Plan phase, we expanded
the scope of EMS establishment from manufacturers to sales sites.
We will continue to promote the establishment of our environmental management system into the Fourth Environmental Action
Plan phase. We have speciﬁcally focused on the permeation ofEMS to sales sites, so that we may promote enhanced environmental awareness and activities throughout our supply chain.
For those business partners that have diﬃculty in establishing anEMS that complies with international standards, we have prepared
two simpliﬁed FDK environmental management systems (FDKEMSfor short) as templates to assist them in the establishment of anEMS. The FDKEMS helps partners conduct management activities
in line with basic ISO 14001 requirements.
We do require, however, our business partners to eventually upgradefrom our simpliﬁed EMS to a third party-certiﬁed EMS.

Construction and operation of our environmental management
system based on standards such as ISO 14001

The Third and Fourth Environmental Action Plans

Strategy and Procedure for Deployment

FDK Group s Green Procurement=The FDK Group has established two conditions for green procurement, namely that our suppliers must construct and operate anenvironmental management system based on standards such as
ISO 14001 and that our raw materials and parts must not containthe hazardous chemical substances designated by us. We givehigher priority to procurement from business partners that fulﬁllthese two conditions. We, further, request business partners toconstruct their own environmental management systems if they
have not already done so.

Overview of Our Green Procurement

The Second Environmental Action Plan

Overview of Our Green Procurement

LevelⅡ ISO 14001 requirements

FDKEMS Level II, FJEMS
Only the very basic PDCA elements

LevelⅠ for environmental measures
FDKEMS Level I

Green Procurement Results
While we did not host green procurement explanation meetings
for business partners during FY2007, we did introduce the requirement of establishing an EMS, made our FDKEMS available and requested that each of our business partners without an EMS establish one.
As a result of our eﬀorts, 56 more business partners establishedan EMS during FY2007. Six of those business partners utilized
FDKEMS.

FDK Group
Green Procurement
Standards

FDKEMS Certiﬁcation

Green Procurement of Office Supplies
Although it is not included in our mission for the Fourth Environmental Action Plan, we actually promote green procurement throughthe purchase of oﬃce supplies with environmental marks, supplies
which take energy saving, recycling, resource saving, eliminationof hazardous substances, and ease of safe disposal into consideration.

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