Company: AKO-B
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000473
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Company: ANDINA BOTTLING CO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
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 mandatory employee benefits, include safe working and sanitary conditions at industrial installations within Paraguay. PARESA maintains all of its licenses, permits and registrations issued by these institutions and ensures compliance with the regulations and ordinances of the municipalities where its plant is located.
Environmental Matters
It is our policy to conduct environmentally sound operations on a basis consistent with applicable laws and within criteria established by The Coca-Cola Company. Although regulation of matters relating to the protection of the environment is not as well-developed in the franchise territories as in the United States and other industrialized countries, we expect that additional laws and regulations may be enacted in the future with respect to environmental matters that may impose additional restrictions on us which could materially or adversely affect our results of operations in the future. As of December 31, 2024, we have no knowledge of any material legal or administrative proceedings pending against us in any of the franchise territories with respect to environmental matters, and we believe that, to the best of our knowledge, we are in compliance in all material respects with all environmental regulations applicable to us.

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Chile
The Chilean government has several regulations governing environmental matters relating to our operations.
Law N° 19,300 addressing general environmental concerns, passed in March 1994, regulates general environmental issues and fundamental aspects applicable to our activities and that could require the hiring of independent experts to conduct studies or environmental impact statements of any future project or activity that may be affected by the provisions of Law N° 19,300. In January 2010, the aforementioned law was amended by Law N° 20,417, which created a new environmental agency, the Environment Ministry, the Environmental Assessment Service and the Environment Superintendence. In January 2012, Law N° 20,600 was published which created the Environmental Tribunals (3), which came into operation on December 2012.
Law N° 20,920 passed in June 2016, sets the framework for waste management, the extended liability of the producer and the promotion of recycling, which aims to reduce waste generation and encourage reuse, recycling and other types of valorization, in order to protect people’s health and the environment. Law 21,368 was published on August 13, 2021, which requires that the composition of disposable plastic bottles must contain a percentage of plastic that has been collected and recycled within the country.
Brazil
Our Brazilian operations are subject to several environmental laws, none of which currently impose substantial restrictions on us. The Brazilian Constitution establishes the broad guidelines