A software solution used to evaluate suppliers' environmental performance has been expanded to evaluate suppliers' social performance. The criteria will become stricter step-wise and implementing these criteria at the local level will be one of the priority areas in 2003. Areas currently under evaluation include:

• Business practice
• Health and safety
• Harassment (sexual, racial, ethnic)
• Child and forced labour
• Discrimination (gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation)
• Freedom of association

Stora Enso Purchasing has also prepared a document entitled 'How to do business with Stora Enso', outlining the Group's expectations regarding how its partners do business with Stora Enso. This document has been sent to all Group suppliers.