Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Document Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Assessment Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Document Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Attaching Document.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Managing Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Document Confidentiality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Check List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
a relevant level
of operational
scope
The CSR performance of the company under assessment could be under or overestimated if
evidence is provided solely from subsidiaries/sites and/or parent company. Therefore, under
certain circumstances, policies, actions and results from subsidiaries/sites and/or parent
company might not be fully credited due to uncertainty that the information provided is
applicable to the scope of assessment.
Note 1: under certain conditions, policies and results may be credited at subsidiaries/sites’ level.
Note 2: under certain conditions, actions and results may be partially credited from parent level documents.
Note 3: documents from sister companies will not be credited.
Document
format File size Validity
1 2 3
Only the following formats will be File size of each document The most recently updated
accepted: docx, .doc, .xls, .xlsx, .pdf, cannot exceed 30MB for documents (validity period
.odt, .ott, .sxw, .stw .ods, .odp, .jpeg, uploading. for both policies and actions
.jpg, .png, .bmp, .txt, .html is 8 years while that
of reported KPIs is 2 years).
5 4
Main reasons why documents are not processed during the assessment:
Not Relevant Document Invalid Document
Document does not demonstrate Document cannot be processed
company’s CSR management system
A. Document is corrupted or falls outside
A. Document which does not provide C. Document prepared specifically to answer the accepted document formats.
information related to company CSR to the EcoVadis assessment, and not included
management system or not within the 21 in the CSR management system B. Document could not be analyzed
EcoVadis assessment criteria. of the company. because of its language and is not
in an editable format*.
B. Document which does not reflect a D. Document with CSR information but not
structural CSR management system in place. from the scope of assessment.
For example, not formalized documentation E. Document is not within the validity period.
(e.g. without company name/logo,
implementation/review date, etc), incomplete
documentation, unfilled template and/or
excerpts of large documents.
Not Relevant
2. Indicate the page where the evidence can be found and add
any comments.
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I confirmed that all the documents are credible formal and fully
integrated into my CSR management system.
I prepared my documents in accordance to the acceptable format, file No part of this document may be reproduced, modified or distributed in any
size and the documents are deemed to be still within the validity period form or manner without prior written permission of EcoVadis.
stated.
For reassessment, I have looked over all the documents submitted does not warrant the accuracy, reliability, completeness of the information,
in my last assessment and uploaded any new documents or recently content, text, and graphics herein, and is subject to change without notice.
reviewed documents.
I understand that my documents will be kept confidential and I have direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of
shared all documents relevant to this CSR assessment. the use of any opinion or information expressly or implicitly contained in
this publication.