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TDSL only procure timber via the Timbmet Group. Our goal is that all our timber and wood products will derive from legally and sustainably managed forests. To achieve this goal we are committed to:

• Progressively increasing the proportion of our timber and wood products that come from credible, independently certified legal and well-managed forest sources

• Working with suppliers worldwide to increase the proportion of our timber and wood products that come from independently verified legal forest sources that are actively progressing towards credible independent certification

• Eliminating timber and wood products originating from illegally-harvested trees, non-certified high conservation value forest, and forests that are being inappropriately cleared or converted

• Continually improving our performance according to explicit targets set within our environmental management system

• Regularly reporting our performance to internal and external interested parties

Underpinning delivery of this policy commitment is implementation of our supply risk assessment system within our environmental management system. This process analyses the forest source of every timber and wood product that we purchase: in addition to knowing the country of origin, we seek evidence of forest of origin, traceability of product from forest to our sites, legal right to harvest and legal compliance, and standard of forest management practices.

We use an external consultancy to advise on the gathering of product evidence, to provide second party checks on the validity and veracity of the evidence we hold and to assist in assessment of risk associated with a purchase. We work with producers to reduce the assessed product-specific risk exposure and/or switch purchasing to producers that already meet our requirements. Several producers have been encouraged, through TDSL's Verified Timber Initiative to strive for credible, independent forest management and chain of custody certification.

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