The nature and location of the business

Easee develops, produces and sells smart charging solutions for electric cars. The Group consists of a parent company and seven wholly owned subsidiaries:

Parent company:
Easee ASA, Norway

Subsidiaries:

  • Easee UK Ltd
  • EASEE Deutschland GmbH
  • Easee Netherlands BV
  • Easee France SAS
  • Easee IP AS
  • Easee Production & Sales Nordics AS
  • Easee Energy Services AS

The Easee Group headquarters is in Stavanger where development work is carried out on existing and new products as well as sales, marketing and operational support functions. The subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and France mainly focus on sales, marketing, delivery and customer support. The production of Easee’s products mainly takes place at the company’s subcontractors in Horten and Hadeland in Norway and Vänersborg in Sweden.

Our guidelines and procedures for Human rights 

Easee is a member of the UN Global Compact. As a member of the UN Global Compact Easee also report yearly on the 10 principles.

Easee has incorporated the United Nations Guiding Principles for Human Rights into our own Human Rights Policy which guides our work. The Human Rights policy is an integrated part of our governance, and our code of conduct commits Easee and all its employees. The supplier code of conduct is in alignment with the UN Guiding Principles for Human Rights.

Easee’s Human Rights Policy also addresses the Company’s responsibilities and commitments should a situation arise where human rights are violated.

  • As a member of the UN Global Compact we also report yearly on the 10 principles.
  • In 2023, Easee also became members of the Responsible Minerals Initiative.
  • As the Norwegian transparency act took effect in 2022, Easee has established routines to manage any incoming requests and formalized its human rights due diligence process.

Our Human rights due diligence

Easee has conducted a human rights due diligence. In this process we looked at human rights risks in the different production steps in our supply chain, from the raw materials involved, to components and manufacturing. We considered geographical risks and corruption risks and used the opportunities to also evaluate environmental impacts.
Our human rights due diligence process did demonstrate that the highest risk for human rights violations is at extraction/raw materials level, followed by components and then for assembly.

Highest level of risk identified:

  1. Generic risks associated with mining and extraction:
    • Toxic waste and toxic waste exposure
    • Labour conditions in artisanal mining
    • Lack of traceability in the supply chain.
  2. Mineral specific risks:
    • Risk of armed conflict associated with 3TG minerals
    • The high energy intensiveness of transition minerals
    • Pressure on Indigenous People’s land and human rights abuse allegations.

After extraction, minerals are sent to smelting before being sent to producers of components. On this level in the supply chain, the labour condition risks are considered high across a range of issues such as living wages, bonded labour, lacking health and safety measures and lacking the right to organize and for collective bargaining.

At the end of the supply chain is manufacturing which is considered low risk in Easee as manufacturing is conducted in Norway and Sweden and is aligned with Norwegian and Swedish labor standards. The risk of human rights abuse in manufacturing in Scandinavia is considered low due to national legislation and its enforcement.

Actions and mitigations

Our human rights policy states that if human rights are violated in our supply chain, we want to know about it, because only that would enable us the opportunity to remediate the situation.

We have a series of ongoing activities:

  • We have a supplier’s code of conduct which is implemented in our supply chain outlining our expectations to our suppliers.
  • Annual supplier evaluations including due diligence assessments and risk classification of suppliers based on country and industry.
  • Supplier audits covering, but not limited to, human rights, conflict minerals, and RoHS/Reach materials.

A consequence and risk analysis has been conducted for our operations and our suppliers. No serious incidents or deviations related to human rights and decent working conditions have been uncovered during 2024.

For further questions about our human rights’ due diligence, please reach out to us at compliance@easee.com

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