GRI Standards Report Registration
SystemGuide to Registering a GRI Standards Report© GRI 2023

ContentsContents........................................................................................................................................ 1

GRI Standards Report Registration System ...................................................................................... 2
How to register your GRI Standards-based report or material ................................................ 2
Step 1 – Submit your details....................................................................................................................... 3
Step 2 – Connect to your organization ................................................................................................. 3
Step 3 – Register your report ..................................................................................................................... 7
Step 4 – Registration completed .............................................................................................................. 9
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GRI Standards Report Registration System
The GRI Standards Report Registration System is a tool that allows reporters to register a GRIStandards-based report or any published material referencing the GRI Standards.
The system enables an organization to maintain an account for its current and future GRI Standardsbased reports. By uploading reports using this system, the organization notifies GRI of the use of theGRI Standards in its reports as per Requirement 9 of GRI 1: Foundation 2021.

How to register your GRI Standards-based report ormaterial
The GRI Standards Report Registration System can be found here:
https://www.globalreporting.org/reportregistration/
Click on the above link to access the GRI Standards Report Registration System. If you already havea MyGRI account, log in using those details. If you do not yet have an account, create one by clicking
on ‘Sign up now’ and follow the steps outlined on the page 3 of this document onwards.

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Step 1 – Submit your details
If you want to create a new account, you will need to submit your details. Enter these in and click on‘Save & next’. If you have logged in using your MyGRI account details, this step will be skipped.

Step 2 – Connect to your organization
To be able to manage your organization’s data and upload reports, you (as an individual user)
must first be connected to your organization. Already connected? Jump to page 6 (sub-heading: If
you are already connected to a reporting organization)•If you are not yet connected to a reporting organization

Add your organization details by either: (a) connecting to an existing organization, or (b) creating anew organization profile.

Page 3 of 9aba. To connect to an existing organization, use the search function to select your organization andclick on ‘Connect & next’. Try not to be too restrictive in the search term (e.g., if you work for‘XYZ Corporation’, try searching for XYZ or be careful when adding too many spaces).

If you cannot find your organization in the search results, it may not yet have a profile on thesystem. In this case, click on ‘Create new organization’ to enter your organization details.

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b. To create a new organization profile, fill in the details of your organization and click on ‘Save &next’.

•If you are already connected to a reporting organization

You can either use:a. The ‘Register a report’ button under ‘My Pages’ which will take you directly to the registration page.

b. Or select your reporting organization directly from ‘My Connected organizations.’

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Once you click on your company’s name, you will be redirected to the ‘Register GRI Standards
reports or published materials’ page.

In this view you will see a record of all registered GRI Standards-based reports issued by theorganization in previous years, if any. If the organization has not yet registered any GRI Standardsbased report, then no reports will be listed (as in the image above).
To add your new report, click on ‘Register new report’.

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Step 3 – Register your report
Fill in the report details, submit the declaration statement by checking the tick box and only then, youwill be able to click the ‘Submit report’ button at the bottom of the page.

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You will need to submit the following data to be able to complete the form above:
1. Organization profile: The organization name and legal name
2. Report details:
a. Report title
The name of the report or published material
b. Publication date
The date on which the report was publishedc. Publication year
The calendar year in which the report was published; this is not the year or period the reportcoversd. Report period fromThe start date of the reporting period; this is the period that the report covers
e. Report period toThe end date of the reporting period; this is the period that the report covers
f. Claim
The extent to which the GRI Standards have been applied to a report or published materialg. Check box ‘I am a consultant’Select this box only if you are a 3rd party representing the reporting organization and havebeen authorized by the reporting organization to register and verify the report on their behalf.
h. Additional report contact
Additional contact details of a representative from the reporting organization
3. Report links
Details to website and/or PDF address where the report or published material can be accessed

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a. Report PDF/URL address:
The PDF/HTML link to the report or published materialb. Claim location
The link to the page or the page number which contains the specific claim or statement
required for the chosen claim option (i.e., In accordance: Core option; In accordance (‘inaccordance’ or ‘with reference to’)c. Content index location
The link to the page or page number which contains the GRI content index.
4. Declaration check mark: Read the declaration text carefully and if you identify with one of the 2
representatives of the reporting organization, then you need to tick the ‘I declare’ check box
before you can submit the report. Before you click on the Submit button, please make sure thatthe registered information is correct, as there is no Edit button.

Step 4 – Registration completed
After registering the report, you will be redirected to the overview page of your registered Standards
reports. In this list, you will find now the newly registered report displaying the report status ‘Verified’.

Note: GRI does not check the content of the report. GRI does not verify, check, or pass
judgment on the quality of the disclosures within a report nor the process of preparing thedisclosures. That responsibility remains with the reporting organization and its stakeholders.

If you see the status ‘Unverified’ and would like toverify the existing report
If your report details have been already entered previously either by you, your colleague or a thirdparty, you can log in to the system to complete the process. If you have been added to this process
as an additional contact by your colleague or a third party, you will be notified via an automated email,and you may proceed with finalizing the process from there.
In the GRI Standards Report Registration view you will see the list of the GRI Standards-based reportthat has been entered and not verified. Click on the report title to be able to access the report
information.
Click the ‘Edit this report’ button that appear in the pop-up information. This will allow you to review
and fill in the missing report details.
Once the editing is complete, click on the declaration check box to be able to click the ‘Submit report’button at the bottom of the page afterwards and follow the Steps 4-5 above to complete theregistration process.

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