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GRI

The Sustainability 2004 report follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as far as it is appropriate and applicable to Stora Enso. The index below shows how and where Stora Enso addresses GRI indicators in the Group’s web annual report for 2004. In addition, the level of reporting (fully reported, partially reported or not reported) is indicated by coloured circles.

Vision and strategy
Profile
Governance structure
Economic performance indicators
Environmental performance indicators
Social performance indicators

GRI Report Content	Location in Stora Enso Reports 2004	Comments
1. Vision and strategy
1.1 Vision and strategy regarding Stora Enso's contribution to sustainable development.	Mission, vision, values
	Welcome from Deputy CEO
	Value Chain
1.2 CEO Statement	Welcome from Deputy CEO
2. Profile
Organisational profile
2.1 Name of reporting organisation	Profile and scope
2.2 Products and services	Product areas in brief
2.3 Operational structure of the organisation	Organisation chart
2.4 Divisions	Paper product area
	Packaging Boards product area
	Forest Products product area
2.5 Locations	Mill Map	The Mill map shows the location of Stora Enso's production facilities. The list of sales companies can be found from Contacts.
2.6 Nature of ownership; legal form.	Share and shareholders
2.7 Nature of markets served.	Product areas in brief
2.8 Scale of the reporting organisation.	Profile and scope
2.9 Stakeholders	Stakeholder engagement
	CSR Principles
Report scope
2.10 Contacts	Contacts	Environmental contacts can be found for mills, divisions and geographic regions. Sustainability communications and CSR contacts can be found under Corporate contacts.
2.11 Reporting period	Profile and scope	The reporting period is the calendar year 2004.
2.12 Previous reports	Profile and scope	The last report was published in March 2004.
2.13 Boundaries of report	Profile and scope
	Accounting principles
2.14 Significant changes	Profile and scope
	Board Report
2.15 Reporting principles	Profile and scope
2.16 Re-statements of information	Restatement
Report profile
2.17 Application of GRI principles and protocols	Profile and scope	Energy protocol: Indirect energy consumption related to e.g. fuels for generation of purchased electricity and transport operated by suppliers are not included in the Group's figures.
2.18 Accounting criteria for costs and benefits.	Profile and scope	Environmental and social performance data is reported according to internal Group guidelines. The guidelines for reporting environmental liabilities, capital expenditures and operating expenses are based on IFRS and EU recommendation on the recognition, measurement and disclosure of environmental issues in the annual accounts and annual reports of companies.
	Accounting principles
2.19 Changes in measurement methods	Profile and scope	Due to improvements in data management, some figures do not correspond exactly to those reported on pages 46-49 of the Sustainability 2003 Report.
2.20 Internal quality assurance	Profile and scope
2.21 Independent assurance		The printed report has been verified by an independent third party. The assurance statement can be found on page 60 of the Sustainability Report.
2.22 Additional information	Profile and scope
3. Governance structure and management systems
Structure and governance
3.1 Corporate governance	Governance
3.2 Board of directors	Board of Directors	Nine of the eleven (82%) directors of the Board of Directors are independent.
3.3 Board-level processes for expertise needs	Board of Directors	The background and experience of all board members are reported.
3.4 Board-level processes for management of economic, environmental, and social risks and opportunities.	Governance	The head of the Sustainability Committee, the Deputy CEO, is a board member.
3.5 Executive compensation	Staff costs
	Employee bonus programmes
3.6 Organisational structure and responsible persons	Governance
3.7 Mission and values statements	Mission, vision and values
	Environmental and social responsbility policy
	CSR Principles
3.8 Shareholders' rights	Share and shareholders
Stakeholder engagement
3.9 Selection of major stakeholders.	Stakeholder engagement
3.10 Stakeholder consultation	Stakeholder engagement	Stora Enso is currently developing a more systematic approach in stakeholder engagement.
3.11 Information generated	Stakeholder engagement	Stora Enso is currently developing a more systematic approach in stakeholder engagement.
3.12 Use of information	Stakeholder engagement	Stora Enso is currently developing a more systematic approach in stakeholder engagement.
Overarching policies and management systems
3.13 Precautionary principle	Environmental and social responsbility policy	From the Environmental and Social Responsibility Policy, Stora Enso has derived its GMO Principle. The Group will refrain from any commercial use of controversial genetic engineering techniques on trees or any other organisms.
	Environmental management systems	Environmental management systems ensure a systematic and pro-active assessment of environmental risks.
3.14 External charters	Welcome from Deputy CEO	Stora Enso has signed the ICC Business Charter for Sustainable Development. Stora Enso supports the United Nation's Global Compact and its ten initiatives.
3.15 Memberships in industry and business associations	Activities in international forums	Stora Enso is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), RespecTable, BLICC (Business Leaders in Climate Change), CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), Finnish Business and Society, Finnish Forest Industries Federation (Mets�teollisuus ry), Swedish Forest Industries Federation (Skogsindustrierna) and German Paper and Pulp Association (VDP)
3.16 Management of upstream and downstream impacts	Value Chain	Stora Enso�s Principles on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) apply to all suppliers. In wood procurement, internal and external audits are done to verify and improve suppliers� environmental and social performance. Field audits are done in co-operation with the suppliers and they cover e.g. health and safety issues. Stora Enso has also defined a preliminary set of environmental and social requirements for other material and service suppliers.
	Chemical suppliers
	Wood procurement
	Economic impacts
	Transport
3.17 Management of indirect impacts	Value Chain
	Indirect economic impacts
	Transport
3.18 Changes in locations and operations	Acquisitions and disposals
	Workforce reductions
3.19 Performance programmes	Value Chain	The printed report has been verified by an independent third party. The assurance statement can be found on page 60 of the Sustainability Report.
	Environmental targets
	CSR targets
	OHS targets
	Business Excellence Guide
3.20 Certified management systems	Certified mills
5. Performance indicators
Economic
Direct economic impacts
Customers
EC1. Net sales	Direct economic impacts
EC2. Geographic breakdown of markets	Direct economic impacts
	Segment information
Suppliers
EC3. Cost of all goods, materials, and services purchased	Economic impacts
	Consolidated Income Statement
EC4. Contracts that were paid in accordance with agreed terms		Not available
EC11. Supplier breakdown	Direct economic impacts	Suppliers are broken down on a regional level.
Employees
EC5. Payroll and benefits	Direct economic impacts
	Staff costs
	Post-employment benefits
	Employee bonus programmes
Providers of capital
EC6. Interest on debt, and dividends	Economic impacts
	Net financial items
	Borrowings
EC7. Retained earnings	Economic impacts
Public sector
EC8. Taxes	Direct economic impacts
	Income taxes
EC9. Subsidies received	Direct economic impacts
	Other operating income: subsidies
EC10. Donations	Direct economic impacts
EC12. Non-core business infrastructure development		No Group-wide data available.
Indirect economic impacts
EC13. Indirect economic impacts	Indirect economic impacts	Stora Enso has taken steps to systematically analyse the Group's indirect economic impacts.
Environmental
Materials
EN1. Materials use	Material Flows	More information about material flows in available in Stora Enso's EMAS reports at www.storaenso.com/emas
EN2. Recycled materials use	Material Flows
Energy
EN3. Direct energy use	Material Flows	More information is available in mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Energy which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
	Energy and climate
EN4. Indirect energy use		Indirect energy consumption related to e.g. fuels for generation of purchased electricity and transport operated by suppliers are not included.
EN17. Renewable energy and energy efficiency	Environmental targets	More information is available in the mill specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Energy which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
	Energy and climate
EN18. Energy consumption of products		Not available
EN19. Other indirect energy use		Not available
Water
EN5. Total water use	Material Flows
	Water
EN20. Water sources affected		More information is available in the mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Water which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
EN21. Ground and surface water	Water	More information is available in the mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Water which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
EN22. Total recycling and reuse of water		Information is available in the mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Water which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
Biodiversity
EN6. Location and size of land in biodiversity-rich habitats		Stora Enso has divested forests in Finland and the USA in 2002, in Sweden and Canada in early 2004 as well as plantations in Indonesia in November 2004.
EN7. Impacts on biodiversity		More information about biodiversity impacts can be found from Stora Enso's EMAS reports.
EN23. Land	Wood procurement
	China
	Biological assets
EN24. Impermeable surface		Not available
EN25. Impacts on protected and sensitive areas	Veracel
EN26. Changes to natural habitats resulting from activities and operations		See EMAS reports of wood supply units at www.storaenso.com/emas
EN27. Protecting and restoring degraded areas	Veracel
EN28. Species with extinction risk
EN29. Operations in protected or sensitive areas
Emissions, effluents and waste
EN8. Greenhouse gas emissions.	Environmental performance	Only carbon dioxide is reported. Emission factors for reporting greenhouse gas emissions are coherent with WRI-WBCSD greenhouse gas protocol.
	Mill-specific data
EN9. Use and emissions of ozone-depleting substances.		No significant ODP sources used in Stora Enso's operations
EN10. NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions by type.	Environmental performance	Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide emissions are reported.
	Mill-specific data
EN11. Total amount of waste by type and destination	Environmental performance	More information is available in the mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Recycling and residuals which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
	Residuals and hazardous waste
	Mill-specific data
EN12. Discharges to water	Environmental performance	Effluent discharges are reported as COD, phosphorus, nitrogen and AOX.
	Mill-specific data
EN13. Spills	Non-compliances
EN30. Indirect greenhouse gas emissions		Not available
EN31. Hazardous waste	Environmental performance
	Hazardous waste
EN32. Impacts of water discharges	Water	More information about impacts of water discharges can be found in Stora Enso's EMAS reports
Suppliers
EN33. Supplier environmental performance	Value Chain	More information can be found in Stora Enso's EMAS reports at www.storaenso.com/emas
	Chemical suppliers
	Wood procurement
Products and services
EN14. Environmental impacts of products and services	Timber products	See http://www.paperprofile.com for further information about environmental impacts of paper products
EN15. Recycling and reuse	Recovered fibre	More information is available in the mill-specific EMAS reports and in the Stora Enso booklet entitled Recycling and residuals which can be found on www.storaenso.com/sustainability > publications
Compliance
EN16. Non-compliance	Non-compliances
	Contingencies
Transport
EN34. Environmental impacts of transportation	Transport
Overall
EN35. Environmental expenditures	Investments and costs
Social
Labour practices and decent work
Employment
LA1. Breakdown of workforce	Employee distribution by country
LA2. Net employment creation and average turnover	Employee distribution by country	The Group's average turnover is reported.
LA12. Employee benefits		No Group-wide data available
Labour/management relations
LA3. Independent trade unions and collective bargaining		The majority of production employees are members of labour unions with which either the Group or the forest industry customarily negotiate collective bargaining agreements in Europe. Salaries for management are negotiated individually.
LA4. Policy and procedures related to restructuring	Stakeholder engagement
	Workforce reductions
LA13. Worker representation		No worker representative in Stora Enso's Board of Directors or Management Group
Health and safety
LA5. Recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases	Health and safety