Promotion of Green Procurement
In order to deliver eco-friendly products to customers, the FDK Group commits itself in green
procurement. This includes raw materials and parts as well as packaging materials.

Promotion of Establishing Environmental Management System
in Business Partners
The FDK Group purchases items that satisfy simultaneously the two conditions designated by the Group only. The conditions include (1)the supplier has established and is operating an environmental management system, such as ISO14001 and (2) the items are free fromhazardous chemical substances designated by the Group. For a supplier which hasn t established any environmental management systems,
the FDK Group is promoting and encouraging the supplier to establish it.

Targets of the Third Environmental Action Plan

Promotion of EMS to suppliers■To encourage suppliers in Japan with no EMS to introduce it.
■The scope of EMS includes those certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation organization such as ISO14001, EMAS, Eco-Action 21, EcoStage, equivalent local environmental management systems, Fujitsu Group Environmental Management System (FJEMS), FDK Group
Environmental Management System (equivalent to FJEMS), and other EMS systems unique to each supplier approved by FDK.

Outline of Green Procurement

Concept and Action

The Second Environmental Action Plan

The Third Environmental Action Plan

Requirement

LevelⅤ

Requirements exceeded those required by ISO14001
Eco-Stage 3 to 5
Requirements covered those required by ISO14001

certiﬁcation with Eco-Action 21 available)
LevelⅣ (MutualISO14001, Eco-Action 21, Eco-Stage 2,
KES Step 2 and Michinoku EMS

Requirements under ISO14001 to be simpliﬁed.

LevelⅢ (Mutual certiﬁcation with Eco-Action 21 not available)
Eco-Stage 1 and KES Step 1

Basic requirements of PDCA underLevelⅡ ISO14001

FJEMS and FDKEMS Step 2
Minimum requirement for basic PDCA

LevelⅠ for environmental improvement
FDKEMS Step 1

21EMS certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation organization

EMS Requirement Level

Green Procurement by the FDK Group=The FDK Group announced in 2001, when its Second Environmental Action Plan was started, that it would purchase only fromsuppliers which engage in environmentally-conscious businessactivities, when prioritizing its purchasing policy, and has beenrequesting that its suppliers establish the Environmental Management System (EMS). In the Third Environmental Action Plan, thescope of requesting EMS was expanded from manufacturers toinclude trade companies (sales companies). The reason for this wasthat our green procurement activity can only be improved andfurther promoted when awareness of protecting the environment
is raised and actions are taken throughout the Group s supplychain.
For those suppliers which have diﬃculty in establishing an EMS incompliance to the international standard, a simple version of anenvironmental management system developed by the FDK Group(FDKEMS) was proposed to them in two stages. The FDKEMS
manages on basic requirements of ISO14001. In the future, suppliers which established the FDKEMS will be required to raise thelevel of the EMS to a third-party certiﬁed EMS.
As to the procurement of raw materials and components freefrom prohibited chemical substances designated by the FDKGroup, another pillar of green procurement requirements, we willcommit ourselves to take appropriate actions, within the above
framework, to totally eliminate hazardous chemical substances
contained in products as explained in P25.

Establishment and operation of ISO14001 orother environmental management systems＋Raw materials and parts free of hazardous chemical
substances designated by the FDK Group

Green Procurement
Up to FY2005, a series of green procurement explanation meetings
was held to explain the ideas and processes of the FDK s green
procurement to its suppliers, and to ask their cooperation with it.
In FY2006, no meetings of this type were held. The FDK Groupapproached to individual suppliers which hadn t introduced anEMS to explain the necessity of it and the details of the FDKEMS,
and asked them to establish an EMS in their premises. A systemof support to establish this was provided as well.
As a result, 125 suppliers introduced the EMS in FY2006, making
the total suppliers which introduced the system during the past
three years 188. Among them, 36 introduced the FDKEMS.

Green Procurement of Office Supplies
Though it was not included in the Third Environmental Action
Plan, the FDK Group is committed to procuring green oﬃce
supplies with an Eco-Mark that certiﬁes that the product considers energy-saving, recyclability, resource-saving, elimination of
hazardousness and easiness for disposal.

Future Actions
The FDK Group will continue to encourage establishment of theenvironmental management system to its suppliers within theframework of the Fourth Environmental Action Plan.

Results of the Third Environmental Action Plan
■Suppliers with the environmental management systemincreased to 188. (Out of them, 36 introduced the FDKEMS.)