General Standard Disclosures
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Strategy and Analysis |
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G4-1 |
Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization |
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G4-2 |
Key impacts, risks, and opportunities |
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Organizational Profile |
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G4-3 |
Name of the organization |
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G4-4 |
Primary brands, products, and services |
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G4-5 |
Location of the organization’s headquarters |
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G4-6 |
Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries where either the organization has significant operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability topics covered in the report |
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G4-7 |
Nature of ownership and legal form |
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G4-8 |
Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers and beneficiaries) |
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G4-9 |
Scale of the reporting organization |
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Company Profile |
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G4-10 |
Total number of employees by employment contract and gender |
Supervised workers such as temps are currently not logged in our employee data system. We are investigating possibilities to record information on supervised workers throughout the company. |
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G4-11 |
Percentage of total employees covered by collective bargaining agreements |
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G4-12 |
Organization's supply chain |
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G4-13 |
Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, ownership, or its supply chain |
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G4-14 |
Whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organization |
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Management Environment |
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G4-15 |
Externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or which it endorses |
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G4-16 |
Memberships of associations |
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Identified Material Aspects and Boundaries |
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G4-17 |
Entities included in the organization's consolidated financial statements |
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G4-18 |
Definition of report content |
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G4-19 |
Material Aspects identified in the process for defining report content |
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G4-20 |
Material aspects within the organization |
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G4-21 |
Material aspects outside the organization |
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G4-22 |
Effect of any restatements of information provided in previous reports, and the reasons for such restatements |
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G4-23 |
Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the Scope and Aspect Boundaries |
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Stakeholder Engagement |
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G4-24 |
Stakeholder groups engaged by the organization |
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G4-25 |
Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage |
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G4-26 |
Organization’s approach to stakeholder engagement |
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G4-27 |
Key topics and concerns raised through stakeholder engagement |
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Report Profile |
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G4-28 |
Reporting period |
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G4-29 |
Date of most recent previous report |
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G4-30 |
Reporting cycle |
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G4-31 |
Contact point for questions |
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G4-32 |
GRI Index |
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G4-33 |
External Assurance |
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Governance |
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G4-34 |
Governance structure of the organization |
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CR strategy and organization |
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G4-35 |
Process for delegating authority for economic, environmental and social topics from the highest governance body to senior executives and other employees |
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CR strategy and organization |
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G4-36 |
Responsibility for economic, environmental and social topics |
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G4-37 |
Processes for consultation between stakeholders and the highest governance body |
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G4-38 |
Composition of the highest governance body and its committees |
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Management |
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G4-39 |
Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer |
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G4-40 |
Nomination and selection processes for the highest governance body and its committees |
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Diversity and inclusion |
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G4-41 |
Processes for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided and managed |
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G4-42 |
Highest governance body's and senior executive's roles in the development, approval, and updating of the organization's CR strategies, policies, and goals |
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G4-43 |
Measures taken to develop and enhance the highest governance body's collective knowledge of economic, environmental and social topics |
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G4-44 |
Evaluation of the highest governance body's performance with respect to governance of economic, environmental and social topics |
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G4-45 |
Highest governance body's role in the identification and management of economic, environmental and social impacts, risks, and opportunities |
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CR strategy and organization |
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G4-46 |
Highest governance body's role on reviewing the effectiveness of the organization's risk management processes for economic, environmental and social topics |
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G4-47 |
Frequency of highest governance body's review of economic, environmental and social impacts risks, and opportunities |
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G4-48 |
Highest committee or position that formally reviews and approves the organization's sustainability report |
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G4-49 |
Process for communicating critical concerns to the highest governance body |
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G4-50 |
Nature and total number of critical concerns that were communicated to the highest governance body |
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G4-51 |
Remuneration policies for the highest governance body and senior executives |
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G4-52 |
Process for determining remuneration |
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G4-53 |
How stakeholders' views are sought and taken into account regarding remuneration |
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G4-54 |
Ratio of annual total compensation for the organization's highest-paid individual to the median annual total compensation for all employees in the same country |
Competitive salaries and additional benefits increase not only our attractiveness as an employer; they also motivate employees and build loyalty to the company. At Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, compensation is based on market analyses in the relevant field and the value of the respective position, as well as the employee's skill set and performance. Our Global Rewards Policy defines the framework for compensation and benefits across the entire company. We strive to offer all our employees the most comparable compensation structures possible. In addition to this, we monitor compliance with minimum standards. We do not consider the information required under G4-54 and G4-55 to be relevant to assessing the fairness of our compensation structures. |
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G4-55 |
Ratio of percentage increase in annual total compensation for the organization's highest-paid individual to the median percentage increase in annual total compensation for all employees in the same country |
Competitive salaries and additional benefits increase not only our attractiveness as an employer; they also motivate employees and build loyalty to the company. At Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, compensation is based on market analyses in the relevant field and the value of the respective position, as well as the employee's skill set and performance. Our Global Rewards Policy defines the framework for compensation and benefits across the entire company. We strive to offer all our employees the most comparable compensation structures possible. In addition to this, we monitor compliance with minimum standards. We do not consider the information required under G4-54 and G4-55 to be relevant to assessing the fairness of our compensation structures. |
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Ethics and Integrity |
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G4-56 |
Organization's values, principles, standards and norms of behavior |
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G4-57 |
Internal and external mechanisms for seeking advice on ethical and lawful behavior, and matters related to organizational integrity |
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G4-58 |
Internal and external mechanisms for reporting concerns about unethical or unlawful behavior, and matters related to organizational integrity |
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