Coca-Cola Icecek AS

Lobbying Governance

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CCI's strong corporate governance structure is crucial to achieving our strategic goals. The Corporate Governance Committee has the ultimate responsibility of setting and implementing corporate strategy, with due regard to sustainability priorities. This responsibility is carried out by the CCI Executive Committee, which consists of the Executive Board and is chaired by the CEO. General sustainability issues sponsored by the CEO are led by the CCI Sustainability Steering Committee. CCI Sustainability Steering Committee members are Group Sustainability Office, Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Country General Managers. [...] Corporate governance is managed by CCI's Board of Directors in collaboration with the Board's Corporate Committees. The Corporate Governance Committee also performs the duties of the Ethics and Compliance Committee. [...] Together with Country Committees in all CCI countries, the Group OHS team coordinates and reports on OHS issues to the OHS Steering Committee, which meets every six months. [...] The Investment Committee, Risk Committee Ethics and Compliance Continuity Committee work together with the relevant working groups within the 6 capitals structure using an integrated systems thinking approach, make decisions at the group level and report to the Executive Committee. These committees come together regularly throughout the year and additionally as required.

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CCI Board of Directors considers sustainability as an integral part of its business strategy, and aligns its approach with creating value for all stakeholders. The company is focused on making use of its financial, natural, relational, manufactured, human and intellectual resources in the most efficient way, thereby continuously improving its impact. In order to achieve this goal, the company regularly reviews the inputs and resources for each capital factor as well as all activities performed in accordance with the desired output and the value created for each group of stakeholders as a result of these activities, and updates them in line with any requirements. CCI aims to continuously improve its holistic approach to assessing risks and opportunities, developing strategies, and identifying short, medium and long-term goals for the future. In all corporate activities, CCI is committed to comply with the applicable local regulations as well as the Corporate Governance Principles supervised by the Capital Markets Board of Turkey. We publish a Corporate Governance Compliance Report each year to communicate transparent performance information to our stakeholders. Performance of the Corporate Governance is managed by CCI Board of Directors in cooperation with Corporate Committees under Board of Directors. The duties of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee are also performed by the Corporate Governance Committee. CCI's strong corporate governance structure plays a vital role in achieving our strategic objectives. The Corporate Governance Committee has the ultimate responsibility in identifying and implementing the business strategy by taking sustainability priorities into account. This responsibility is assumed by CCI's Executive Committee, which is comprised of a representative from senior management and steered by the CEO. Under the sponsorship of the CEO, general sustainability topics are led by CCI Group's Sustainability Office. The Group Corporate Affairs Director, the Group Supply Chain Director, COO and country general managers act as sponsors for environmental sustainability topics. Separate task forces work in an integrated framework for 3 main focus areas: Climate Change, Water Leadership, and Sustainable Packaging & Waste Management. Transformation programs that we plan to adopt in our offices and the "Hand in Hand Environment Program" implemented in our production facilities act as complementary elements. A meeting is held by task forces 2-4 times a month, involving any relevant functions. They report to the Steering Committee on a quarterly basis. When it comes to Social Sustainability, the Group HR Director acts as a sponsor. The Occupational Health and Safety Steering Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board are also involved. Location-based OHS committees meet every month and report to the Country Health and Safety committees on a quarterly basis. In cooperation with Country Committees across the entire CCI geography, the Group OHS team coordinates OHS-related issues and reports to the Occupational Health and Safety Steering Committee, which meets every six months. The Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board focuses on 3 key areas: Gender Equality, Intergenerational Diversity, and Culture and Experience. On the governance side, Investment Committee, Risk Committee, Ethics and Compliance Committee, Information Security Steering Committee and Business Continuity Committee work separately in close connection with the relevant working groups around 6 capital factors through an integrated framework in order to achieve the objectives specified for each of the identified strategic issues, making group-level decisions and reporting to the Executive Committee. These committees convene at regular intervals throughout the year, as well as in a cases of urgency. Comprised of the CEO, COO, Chief Financial Officer and Group Supply Chain Director, the Investment Committee meets as deemed necessary prior to important investment decisions. In case of investment decisions on digital technology, the CIO also attends the meetings hold by the Investment Committee.

https://www.cci.com.tr/Portals/3/CCI_Integrated_Report_2021.pdf

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]We provide internal trainings to keep all of our employees updated about our climate-related public affairs strategies. Group Sustainability Office is responsible to communicate strategies and changes to the strategies to country teams.
We work with cross-functional teams to implement climate-related strategies, which include people from all departments and the members of the cross-functional teams are responsible for informing their own departments about the related strategies.
We also have a stakeholder engagement log. The stakeholder engagement log is a digital log that has to be filled in if there is a public engagement activity to be performed. The details of the engagement activity i.e., date, place, subject, etc. is filled in this log and it is reviewed by both the sustainability and public affairs departments and the engagement activity cannot be performed without the approval of both departments. Therefore, we make sure that the engagement activities of CCI employees are in line with our sustainability and climate-change related strategies.
We also have a disclosure policy where any presentation outside the company has to be sent to public affairs and sustainability departments and has to be approved by them.

CDP Questionnaire Response 2022