Suppliers

Sustainability is the base of Enel’s commitments also in relation with suppliers.

Enel has developed a system for monitoring suppliers’ respect for the rights of their workers and has enacted a revision of carefulprocedures from the safety point of view to align contracting firms with Enel’s safety standard.In addition, the Company always adopts fairness and transparency in selection process and relations with suppliers.
The Procurement Department manages the Company’s relations with its suppliers, and discussions take place mainly during planning and course of training meetings organized by Enel, especially on the subject of safety.

Green Procurement, which started in 2007, is a system for purchasing environment-friendly products and services.
Regarding the merchandise groups, careful specifications were defined that include indicating guidelines for recycling.

These include the following indications:

• Stationery and prints: use of paper manufactured from 75% of 100% recycled fibres.
• recyclable packages (or at least non synthetic-halogenated-material);
• cleaning: containers must be re-utilizable;
• portering : all products to be used must be manufactured from recycled/recyclable materials for at least 80% of their weight;
• ordinary maintenance: all products to be used must be manufactured from recycled/recyclable materials for at least 80% of their weight;
• decorations: packages must be recycled and in turn must be 100% recyclable, wooden parts must bear FSC or PEFC certifications or must be recycled;
• PCs: packages must be produced using the same process as for package recycling. The supplier must collect all packages that contained the installed device and assure they’re recovered and reutilized;
• bill paper and envelopes: regarding the pallet used for material circulation, it is requested that they comply with the “Europallet” standard, which requires that a pallet be reused after controlling the registry for pallet load and unload;
• industrial plant demolition: demolished and non-metallic materials must be recycled;
• civil buildings demolitions: demolished materials must be separated by categories and recycled, along with non-metallic materials such as pVc, pEad, pp and all other recoverable materials.

Concerning supplier qualification specifications, the following indications must be followed:

PCs – storage devices – unix servers – lan servers: Enel makes sure the packaging producer has agreed to comply a package recycling system and be sure the supplier recovers and reuses packages.