Parlevliet & Van der Plas

Sustainability strategy
Parlevliet & Van der Plas discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Lobbying and advocacy
Parlevliet & Van der Plas discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
Parlevliet & Van der Plas demonstrates its commitment to sustainable seafood of environmental sourcing criteria.

Ecosystem impacts of fisheries
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Ecosystem impacts of aquaculture
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No leading practices were identified in the traceability area.

Forced Labour
Parlevliet & Van der Plas prohibits the payment of any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, and it does not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its operations.

Respect human rights
The company discloses a policy statement committing to respecting human rights and the fundamental rights at work declared by the ILO in its operations.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and provides evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards.

Act ethically
The company discloses a privacy statement on the use of personal data. Also, it discloses a policy on bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contractual agreements with business relationships.

Sustainability strategy
While Parlevliet & Van der Plas discloses some sustainability objectives/targets, it has an opportunity to disclose more time-bound and quantitative targets with a clear baseline year and a target year covering its entire operation on other key seafood sustainability topics such as traceability and social responsibility.

Accountability for sustainability strategy
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Stakeholder engagement
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Lobbying and advocacy
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
Although Parlevliet & Van der Plas demonstrates a commitment to sustainable seafood and sources from certified fisheries, it has an opportunity to disclose a target to achieve sustainable seafood across its entire portfolio.

Ecosystem impacts of fisheries
Parlevliet & Van der Plas reports that 58% of its seafood products are certified but it does not disclose a breakdown between the part of its portfolio that is Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Friends of the Sea. Therefore, the company has an opportunity to increase its transparency by providing more detailed information about the types and percentages of certifications held within its portfolio. Beyond certification, the company has an opportunity to disclose how ecosystem impacts are addressed (if needed) in fisheries that are not certified.

Traceability systems and commitments for seafood products and aquaculture feed ingredients
For the products that come from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fisheries, Chain of Custody certification is in place, ensuring some level of traceability. However, the company has the opportunity to strengthen its traceability commitment by setting a time-bound target to implement the GDST standards and reporting progress against this target.

Risk-based approach to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Parlevliet & Van der Plas provides general information about how it mitigates risks for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fisheries across its operations and supply chain. The company sources from certified fisheries and complies with EU seafood traceability requirements. Nevertheless, Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to disclose how it assesses IUU risks in its operations and supply chain and steps taken to address and mitigate identified risks.

Disclosure of the source of seafood products and marine feed ingredients
Parlevliet & Van der Plas discloses geographical locations for the source of its seafood products. However, it has an opportunity to including additional information such as management status and production method.

Forced Labour
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to turn its statements and expectations into policy requirements for suppliers. This includes clarifying the prohibition on retaining workers’ personal documents, restricting their freedom of movement, and ensuring there is no payment of recruitment fees. Moreover, the company should outline its collaborative approach with suppliers to prevent forced labor impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve fishers’ income resilience.

Working and living conditions on board fishing vessels
Parlevliet & Van der Plas discloses a detailed policy, the ‘Working and Living Conditions on Board Policy’ which shows a commitment to providing all crew members in their operations with adequate working and living conditions. However, the company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it monitors compliance against the policy across its operations and supply chains and addresses any non-compliances.

Respect human rights
Parlevliet & Van der Plas expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Additionally, it could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. Also, it could further disclose its processes for assessing its human rights risks, what it considers to be its salient human rights issues and how relevant factors are taken into account, such as geographical, economic, social and other factors. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to describe its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.

Provide and promote decent work
The company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees. However, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and describing how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Additionally, although the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it could add a requirement for them to pay a living wage and disclose how it supports the payment. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Act ethically
The company could disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption and a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns. Also, it has an opportunity to disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document and state that it does not make political contributions and divulge its lobbying expenditures.