The Norwegian Transparency Act

Brødrene Aa has great respect for fundamental human rights and decent working conditions. We are thus positive to The Norwegian Transparency Act (the Act) that entered into force Friday 1 July 2022.​

The Act is based on UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and OECD’s Guidelines for multinational companies.​ ​The aim of the Act is to ensure that large Norwegian companies are working to promote compliance with fundamental human rights and decent working conditions in the companies themselves, in their supply chains and with their business partners. Furthermore, the Act imposes an obligation for the companies to respond to requests which may come from the public on how the company is handling this risk, both in general and specifically linked to certain goods or services. ​

Brødrene Aa has implemented systems and procedures that comply with the requirements in The Norwegian Transparency Act and has conducted a due diligence assessment.​ The Management in Brødrene Aa AS has approved and supports the establishment and implementation of policies and routines which satisfies the requirements of the Act. A working group has been established to implement and continuously monitor and improve our effort to address and reduce actual and potential negative impact on human rights and decent working conditions.​

The yearly report/statement in accordance with the Transparency Act is available in Norwegian here.

Upon written request, any person has the right to information from a company regarding how the company addresses actual and potential adverse impacts on fundamental human rights and decent working conditions that the company has either caused or contributed toward, or that are directly linked with the company’s operations, products or services via the supply chain or business partners. ​

To register a request for information please follow this link.