Handouts and checklists > Your “contract stack” may include
Context and application of this tool is explained in "Sustainability in your contract stack" (in Module II. Contracts as drivers of sustainability).
Your “contract stack” may include
- Main contract document: The core agreement
- General Terms and Conditions (GTCs): Standard terms that apply across relationships
- Product or service specifications: Technical and performance requirements, including concrete sustainability criteria
- Supplier Code of Conduct (SCoC): Sustainability standards and expectations regarding human rights, environment, and good governance
- Supplier Requirements: Technical and operational requirements designed to translate sustainability standards set in (S)COC into practice (often including references to international standards)
- Policies: Internal documents that set out a company’s principles, commitments and rules on specific topics (such as environment, health and safety or anti-corruption).
- International guidelines and principles: The UNGPs, the OECD Guidelines
- Standards and certificates: ISO standards, international/national certificates
- Applicable law