Social & Environmental Report 2006

Promotion of Green Procurement

In order to provide eco-friendly products to our customers, the FDK Group promotes green procurement of raw materials,
parts and packaging materials.

Promotion of Establishing Environmental Management System inBusiness Partners

Targets of the Third Environmental Action Plan

Procedures and Actions

Outline of Green Procurement

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 under

LevelⅡ ISO14001

FJEMS and FDKEMS Step 2
Minimum requirement for basic PDCA

LevelⅠ for environmental improvement
FDKEMS Step 1

EMS certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation organization

The Second Environmental Action Plan

The Third Environmental Action Plan

Requirements exceeded those required by ISO14001＋Raw materials and parts free of hazardous chemical
substances designated by the FDK Group

Green Procurement
In FY2005, a series of green procurement explanation meetings
was held following to the previous year to communicate our business partners with the idea and process of our green procurement to ask their cooperation to it. As a result, 88 business partners established their environmental management system.
Among them, two business partners introduced
the FDKEMS. We willcontinue our eﬀorts toestablish the environmental management system
to our business partners
a nd supp or t e st abl is h ment of FDKEMS.

Site Report

Requirement

Establishment and operation of ISO14001 orother environmental management systems
Environmental Protection
Activity ReportEMS Requirement Level

Green Procurement by the FDK Group=In the third Environmental Action Plan, the scope of requiring
setup of the environmental management system was expanded
to distributors (trade companies) as well as to manufacturingcompanies. This is due to the belief that trade companies should
know the importance of the environmental management systembecause they purchase items from manufacturing companies andare in a position to provide instruction and guidance to their
manufacturing companies. For suppliers which feel it diﬃcult toestablish the environmental management system, a simple management system, FDKEMS is provided to them for observationin two stages. The FDKEMS contains basic requirements ofISO14001. For users of FDKEMS, the FDK Group requires themto upgrade it in the future to an environmental management
system certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation entity.
Procurement of raw materials and parts that are free from hazardous chemical substances designated by the FDK Group ispromoted in a procedure shown in Approaches to Totally Eliminate Hazardous Substances in Products. See P22 for the details.

LevelⅤ

Social performance

Promotion of EMS to suppliers・ To encourage suppliers in Japan with no EMS to introduce it.
・ The scope of EMS include those certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation organization such as ISO14001, EMAS, Eco-Action 21,Eco-Stage, local environmental management system equivalent to them, 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.

Management andOrganizational Structure

Believing that, in order to produce eco-friendly products, the materials used for them should be eco-friendly as well, the material function of the FDK Group promotes green procurement. In this process, the following two conditions are set in selecting suppliers andproducts to purchase: (i) the business partner has established and is operating environmental management system such as ISO14001, (ii)no hazardous chemicals designated by the FDK Group are contained in raw materials and parts. Items satisfying both of the two conditions are taken as a priority to purchase by the FDK Group.

Explanation Meeting to Business
Partners (Kosai Plant)

Green Procurement of Office Supplies
Though it is not included in the Third Environmental ActionPlan, 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.
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