The RESPECT program launched in 2005 extends Danones’ ‘dual economic and social project’ to its entire supply chain, except milk producers (addressed in the FaRMs program)
following a specific process of:
• contracting with suppliers within the framework of the signature;
• contracts and/or general terms of procurement about the respect of the Sustainable Development Principles (social, environmental and ethics)
• sharing information through supplier self-declarations concerning their Corporate Social Responsibility performance, using the SEDEX platform shared by all consumer goods industry players, in the AIM-progress association;
• external CSR audits using the SMETA benchmark for suppliers viewed as at-risk based on this information exchange, with a view to implementing an appropriate action plan (see diagram below)