Purpose and approach
The policy turns Blue Palm’s values of trust, care, pride, quality, performance and integrity into a practical responsible-business framework for procurement and sourcing. The company applies the OECD due-diligence cycle proportionately: embed standards, identify impacts, prevent or mitigate harm, track results, communicate accurately and enable or cooperate in remedy.
Responsible-business pillars
Blue Palm’s pillars are integrity and governance; people and human rights; responsible sourcing and quality; environment and climate; and communities and local value.
Annual proportionate plan
Each year Compliance identifies material impacts and customer or legal requirements, selects up to five priority actions with owners and indicators, consults relevant stakeholders where useful, reviews progress at least twice a year and prepares an internal summary.
Responsible sourcing and product stewardship
Blue Palm applies third-party due diligence and relevant product, food-safety, quality, origin and traceability checks. Material substitutions require customer approval. Supplier improvement plans are used where credible, while severe, concealed or repeated harm is escalated.
Environment and climate
The company identifies applicable environmental duties, reduces avoidable food and non-food waste, considers packaging impacts, plans logistics to reduce urgent shipments, empty journeys and spoilage, and tracks practical baselines where data can inform decisions.
Community support and claims
Community activities must respond to genuine need and avoid political endorsement or improper influence. Public sustainability or responsibility claims must be specific, evidence-based and clear about scope and limitations; material errors are corrected promptly.
Legal & standards reference
This is a concise website presentation of the legal and standards references contained in the supplied policy. The official text, local legal advice and applicable entity or licence conditions should be checked before relying on a provision.
| Instrument | Relevance |
|---|---|
| Iraq Environmental Protection and Improvement Law No. 27 of 2009 | Principal federal environmental protection framework referenced by the policy. |
| Iraq National Strategy for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment 2024–2030 | Current national environmental policy context cited by the policy. |
| UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024 on Reduction of Climate Change Effects | UAE climate framework, including free-zone applicability within its scope. |