Responsible Care Program
In 1999, Unipetrol, a.s. enrolled in the "Responsible Care" program* – the chemical industry's global voluntary initiative. In 2000, 2003 and 2005, the company was able to repeatedly prove that it had met its obligations associated with membership in the program and, based upon its successful public defense of its activities justifying its right to use this accreditation, the Association of the Chemical Industry of the Czech Republic (SCHP ČR) lent to the company the right to use the program's logo.
Due to the character of the company (acting as the managing entity of the UNIPETROL Group) Unipetrol, a.s. had to verify compliance with the program's policies, based on 16 mandatory criteria of the program. Additional 20 criteria, which focus on manufacturing type activities, were not evaluated by the company. However, the company did submit a report to SCHP ČR on the relevant activities carried out by the manufacturing entities of the Unipetrol Group, which confirmed that all of its subsidiaries have been properly attending to meeting their obligations under the program and it successfully verified that these subsidiaries had been meeting their commitments to the Responsible Care Program.
The current license for the use of the Responsible Care Program logo, as held by Unipetrol, a.s. expires in September 2007. In response to this approaching deadline, Unipetrol, a.s. is submitting to SCHP ČR a progress report on the program for the period from 2005-2007 and is requesting a review of this report, based on its public defense of its participation through documentation verifying its activities the company is requesting an extension of its right to the use of the program's logo for an additional period, from 2009-2011.
