OUR STORY IN THE MAKING ACCOUNTABLE BY NATURE
STEWARDS OF THE LAND TREASURE TROVE OF TALENTS BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
THE GOVERNANCE MODEL
2 Committees supporting the BoD
7 members of the Strategic Sustainability Committee
2 meetings held in 2021
Sustainable management of the organisation
THE CODE OF ETHICS Complementing governance, we have defined the rules governing the ethical conduct of all employ- ees and partners in their everyday work in the Code of Ethics. Specifically, the Code of Ethics: • Expresses the set of values and principles of conduct guiding the business. • Recommends, advocates or prohibits certain behaviours, requiring compliance by the people in the winery. The Strategic Sustainability Committee (SSC) con- sists of seven members (four of whom are on the Board of Directors), representing all the organisa- tion’s areas of operation. The SSC defines strategic decisions and monitors progress of the strategic plan. The Committee was established in May 2021 and met twice during the year to address a range of issues connected to the sustainability strategy. In particular, it met to approve the sustainability gov- ernance model, set up the sustainability plan and The Sustainability Contacts Committee (SCC) con- sists of representatives drawn from the key business functions. The goal is for the operational persons to discuss and share ideas to encourage them to work together and to draw up a common vision by draw- ing on the experiences of all the people who work with us. The establishment of the SCC also helps raise the awareness of operators and to develop more sustainability-focused individuals within each function . Each committee member is assigned specific respon - sibilities in the field of sustainability and acts as the contact person on this issue for their colleagues in their respective areas of responsibility. The Commit- tee was formally established in the second half of 2021 and did not hold any meetings during the year. Prior to its establishment, we held training and align- ment sessions with representatives of the different business areas, including future Committee members.
approve the materiality matrix.
• Informs third parties about the ethical principles that the organisation recognises as its own and which it requires its associates to comply with. • Lays down sanctions commensurate with the seriousness of the infringements committed. • Represents a valid code of conduct to boost the employees’ awareness and knowledge of the business policy. • Gathers input from the various stakeholders. • Participates in preparing the sustainability report. • Reviews sustainability communication requirements. • Sets up analyses on specific sustainability issues • to be referred to the SSC. • Proposes training initiatives. • Identifies the strategic sustainability guidelines. • Defines sustainability governance. • Approves the strategic sustainability plan and monitors its progress. • Reviews sustainability risks. • Approves the sustainability report. • Contributes to defining the sustainability strategy. • Identifies quality objectives, targets and necessary resources • to be included in the sustainability plan. • Shares the progress of the various projects • and assesses the revised targets.
SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE MODEL
BoD Board of Directors
SSC Strategic Sustainability Committee
SCC Sustainability Contacts Committee
After 60 years at the helm of the winery, Franco Zil- iani decided to pass the tradition and his expertise onto the next generation. His children Cristina, Ar- turo and Paolo now run the business jointly, sup- ported by the new generation, who are beginning to passionately enter the scene. Sustainability underpins the organisation’s major decisions . With a view to consolidating this vision, in 2020, after we published our first Sustainability Report, we embarked on a path to structure our in- ternal sustainability governance and make it part of our daily operations. The prerequisite for operating sustainably is for all the business functions to agree
on the definition of the strategy and its implementa - tion. Specifically, input from the different functions is important, experiences must be shared, objec- tives jointly identified and results assessed together in order to determine possible improvements. For this reason, we have set up a new internal gov- ernance system, assigning specific responsibilities. The Strategic Sustainability Committee (SSC) and the Sustainability Contacts Committee (SCC) were set up to support the 2021 five-member* Board of Directors , which is responsible for all the strategic business decisions.
*The BoD dropped to 4 members after the death of the President, Franco Ziliani.
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