Environmental Compliance Audits

Introduction

One of Kumba Iron Ore’s primary sustainable goals is to be a trusted corporate leader by striving for the highest standards of governance to drive transparency, and improving accountability with our stakeholders. We are committed to environmental management practices that comply with environmental legal and regulatory requirements. To this end, we acknowledge our auditing obligations under Regulation 34 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, requiring us to make its environmental authorisation and environmental management programme report audits available on our website. Compliance with these regulations requires environmental authorisation (“EA”) holders to:

• conduct EA and related environmental management programme/environmental management plan compliance audits in accordance with regulation 34 of the EIA Regulations;
• notify interested and affected parties ("I&APs") of the submission of all Regulation 34 Audit reports to competent authorities;
• make the Regulation 34 Audit reports available to anyone on request; and
• place the Regulation 34 Audit reports on a publicly accessible website.