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The Nordic Morning Group's corporate responsibility report 2013 complies fully with the reporting guidelines established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The report complies with GRI Application level C.

The GRI Content Index lists the standard indicators from the current GRI Guidelines (G3) on which we report, and shows where the relevant information can be found in this report and in Nordic Morning's Financial statements 2013. The extent to which we report on each indicator is also specified.

The Application Level has been checked by a third party, PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy.

GRI Application level check 2013

GRI Indicator	GRI Content	Reported	Remarks
	Strategy and Analysis
1.1	CEO's statement	Yes
	Organizational Profile: Strategy
2.1	Name of the organization	Yes
2.2	Primary brands, products and services	Yes
2.3	Operational structure	Yes
2.4	Location of organization's headquarters	Yes
2.5	Number of countries and location of operations	Yes
2.6	Nature of ownership and legal form Corporate Governance	Yes
2.7	Markets served Business	Yes
2.8	Scale of the reporting organization Financials	Yes
2.9	Significant changes regarding size, structure or ownership Strategy CEO's review	Yes	No significant changes during the reporting period
2.10	Awards received in the reporting period	Yes	No awards received in the reporting period.
	Reporting Principles: Corporate responsibility
3.1	Reporting period	Yes
3.2	Date of most recent report	Yes
3.3	Reporting cycle	Yes
3.4	Contact point for questions regarding the report	Yes
3.5	Process for defining report content (materiality, prioritizing topics and stakeholders using the report) CR program	Yes
3.6	Boundary of the report	Yes
3.7	Limitations on the report's scope or boundary	Yes
3.8	Basis for reporting subsidiaries, joint ventures, leased facilities, outsourced operations and other entities affecting comparability	Yes
3.9	Data measurement techniques and bases of calculations Environmental responsibility Financial responsibility Social responsibility Environmental responsibility	Partly
3.10	Explanation of re-statements	Yes	No re-statements
3.11	Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary or measurement methods	Yes	No significant changes from previous reporting period
3.12	GRI content index	Yes
3.13	Assurance policy and practice	Yes
	Governance, commitments and engagement
4.1	Governance structure of the organization Corporate governance	Yes
4.2	Position of the Chairman of the Board Corporate governance	Yes
4.3	Independence of the Board members Corporate governance	Yes
4.4	Mechanism for shareholder and employee consultation Corporate governance	Yes	No employee representatives on the Board of directors
4.5	Impact of organization's performance on executive compensation (inc. social and environmental performance) Corporate governance	Yes	Linkage to CR performance not reported
4.6	Processes for avoiding conflicts of interest Corporate governance	Yes
4.7	Processes for determining Board members' expertise in strategic management and sustainability Corporate governance Board of directors	Partly
4.8	Implementation of mission and values statements, code of conduct and other principles Corporate responsibility CEO's review	Yes
4.9	Procedures of the Board for overseeing management of sustainability performance, including risk management Corporate responsibility Risk management	Yes
4.10	Processes for evaluating the Board's performance Corporate governance	Yes
4.11	Addressing precautionary approach Coporate governance Risk management	Yes
4.12	Voluntary charters and other initiatives Memberships and certificates
4.13	Memberships in associations Memberships and certificates	Yes
4.14	List of stakeholder groups Stakeholders	Yes
4.15	Identification and selection of stakeholders Stakeholders	Yes
4.16	Approaches to stakeholder engagement Stakeholders	Yes
	Economic Performance Indicators: Financial responsibility
	Management approach to economic responsibility Financial responsibility Corporate governance	Yes
EC1*	Direct economic value generated and distributed Financial responsibility	Yes
EC2*	Financial implications, risks and opportunities due to climate change Corporate responsibility	Partly
EC3*	Coverage of defined benefit plan obligations Corporate governance Financial Statements	Partly	Financial statements 2013, Appendix 24, Pension obligations p. 45
EC4*	Significant subsidies received from government	Yes	No subsidies received from government during the reporting period
	Environmental Performance Indicators: Environmental responsibility
	Management approach to environmental responsibility	Yes
EN1*	Materials used by weight or volume	Yes
EN2*	Recycled materials used	Partly	Cardboard boxes (85 tons in 2013) and recycled paper (25 tons in 2013).
EN4*	Indirect energy consumption	Partly
EN5	Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements	Partly
EN6	Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services	Partly	Initiatives are listed in the box "How we reduce our carbon footprint". Reductions in energy consumption not reported.
EN7	Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved	Partly	Initiatives are listed in the box "How we reduce our carbon footprint".
EN8*	Total water withdrawal by source	Yes	Nordic Morning uses municipal water only.
EN16*	Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions	Yes
EN17*	Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions	Yes
EN18	Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions	Partly	Achieved reductions not reported.
EN22*	Total amount of waste by type and disposal method	Yes
EN26*	Mitigating environmental impacts of products and services	Partly	Reductions not reported.
EN28*	Significant fines and sanctions for non-compliance with environmental regulations	Yes	There have been no fines and sanctions in 2013.
EN29	Environmental impacts of transportation	Yes	Carbon calculations include CO2-emissions from transportation.
	*Social Performance Indicators: Social responsibility, GRI annex** *Klikkicom group is not included in the figures of LA2, LA4, LA6, LA7, LA10 and LA12
	Management approach to social responsibility	Yes
LA1*	Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region	Partly	Permanent employees: Sweden 406, Finland 332, Ukraine: 22 Temporary employees: Sweden 15, Finland 12, White collar: Finland 220, Sweden 323, Ukraine 22. Blue collar: Finland 112, Sweden 82.
LA2*	Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender and region	Partly	Total left of own choice: Sweden 57, Finland 13, Ukraine 3 Total left due to restructuring measures: Sweden 56, Finland 14, Total recruited externally: Sweden 51, Finland 24, Ukraine 4 Rate of total employee turnover: Finland 0,21, Sweden -0,29, Ukraine 0,02 The %-shares by country and gender : Finland, men 52,2%, women 47,8%, Sweden, men 47%, women 53%, Ukraine, men 100%
LA4*	Coverage of collective bargaining agreements	Delvis	Sweden: 83% Finland: 73% Ukraina: 0%
LA5*	Minimum notice period regarding operational changes	Yes	Sweden: 2 months if up to 25 employees may be redundant, 4 months if 26-100 employees may be redundant; 6 months if more that 100 employees may be made redundant Finland: For any organizational changes that have direct influence to the work of the employees the employer shall invite employee representatives to negotiate with a written invitation five days prior to negotiations. If organizational changes may lead to redundancies of less than 10 employees, a negotiation period of two weeks shall be applied. If organizational changes may lead to redundancies of more than 9 employees, a negotiation period of six weeks shall be applied.
LA 6	Percentage of employees represented in joint health and safety committees	Partly	All companies have occupational safety committees in which the staff members share is under 25% of the total amount of the staff.
LA7*	Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, fatalities and absenteeism	Partly	Accumulative total sick leave: Finland 2,7%, Sweden 3,1%, Group 2,9% Number of long term sick leaves (unpaid): 3 Number of accidents at work: Finland 4, Sweden 0 LTIF1 (lost time injury frequency up to 1 day): Sweden 0, Finland 1,61 LTIF3 (lost time injury frequency up to 3 days): Sweden 0, Finland 4,83
LA10*	Average training hours per year per employee per personnel group	Partly	Sweden 18, Finland 14, Ukraine 23, Group 15
LA 11	Programs for skills management and lifelong learning Social responsibility	Yes
LA12	Employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews Social responsibility	Yes	68,2 percent of the Group’s staff had at least one development discussion with their manager.
LA13*	Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees Social responsibility	Partly	Breakdown of governance bodies: Management team: 4 men, 3 women Board of directors: 3 men, 3 women.
	Product and Service Labeling
PR3*	Product information required by procedures Environmental responsibility	Partly
PR5	Practices related to customer satisfaction and results of customer satisfaction surveys CR program	Partly	Results not reported
* GRI Core indicator

The Nordic Morning Group's corporate responsibility report 2013 complies fully with the reporting guidelines established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The report complies with GRI Application level C.

GRI Application level check 2013

Strategy and Analysis

Organizational Profile: Strategy

Reporting Principles: Corporate responsibility

Governance, commitments and engagement

Economic Performance Indicators: Financial responsibility

Environmental Performance Indicators: Environmental responsibility

**Social Performance Indicators*: Social responsibility, GRI annex**

Product and Service Labeling

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