Performance Indicators

Management of objectives and performance indicators

With our Sustainability Program and this data section, we detail the Group’s most important objectives and performance indicators in the 2006 reporting period. These indicators comprise data for environmental, social, and economic performance. Our self-commitment and increasing external requirements are, together, augmenting the meaningfulness of our performance indicators.

This year, we have become one of the first companies to include indirect greenhouse gas emissions in our reporting and are thereby presenting a comprehensive climate balance for our Group. We have also decided to newly include the social security coverage of our employees worldwide. Progress rather than stagnation is at the heart of our commitment. And the performance indicators are the yardstick against which we allow ourselves to be judged. The latter also entails the subjection of our data to an independent assurance process.

Bayer has captured data from all of the relevant organizational units and companies worldwide in which the Group held a participating interest of at least 51 percent in 2006. The performance data for these affiliated companies have been fully consolidated, regardless of the exact share held by Bayer in each company. We have based our selection and measurement of these indicators on the international recommendations and current guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC).
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