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    Objective and Scope 

    The objective of this operating procedure is to define roles, responsabilities responsibilities and lead times for SBS, CCT(Customer, Credit and Trade Service Line) CTC (Customs and Trade Control), to provide the service of partners manual screening to the GBU Composite Materials Med-Lab site.GBUs.


    Partners manual screening is done for:

    - Projected partners, wherever located before prospection, bid, sale, order approval, issuance of any purchase order or signature of any agreement;
    - Business transactions where there is no link The distribution site Med-Lab ERP SAGE is not linked to any trade control IT tool , no automatic screening of partners is done at order entry. Embargo situations are manually handled(the distribution site Med-Lab ERP SAGE, R&I Solvay centres).


    The group policy is nevertheless turned towards the best level of compliance and the solution to ensure that the GBU shipments are authorized is to manually screen the recipients against restricted party lists and economic sanctions.   


    Effective date

    October 1, 2018


    Reviewed date

    August 20, 2020 



    1. Context

    Solvay currently exports U.S., European and other Foreign produced materials from numerous Solvay locations globally. To prevent the sale or purchase of good goods or services from or to a restricted party, it is Solvay’s policy to screen business partners (for exports, re-exports, domestic transactions) against the various Governments published restricted party, sanctioned countries and products licensing requirements.Composite Materials GBU has internally defined a list of countries of concern for which an End Use Statement is a pre-condition of sale.

    The site Med-Lab estimates the amount of 3000 shipments per year.


    2. Screening frequency

    SBS, CCT, CTC will provide screening assessment on demand within 48 hours.

    The agreed screening frequency between Med-Lab and SBS and Solvay R&I centres and SBS is for new customers when an account is opened within 24 hours and for all other customers at least once every 12 months.


    3. Operation sequence


    The GBU will have to check in advance whether the destination country is listed as a "country of concern", see Annex 1. 
    Any shipment to a country of concern will require an End Use Statement.
    The GBU
    sends the new account details at SBS CTC generic email address: trade.control@solvay.com

    Mandatory fields for an efficient screening:

    1. full name of the recipient;
    2. the country of destination;
    3. the End Use Statement (if required).
    CTC 
    1. (see Appendix 32 ).

    The GBU will have to check in advance whether the destination country is listed as a "country at risk", see Appendix 07  of the Group Export Compliance Program (GECP).  Any shipment to a country at risk will require a Compliance Statement, see Appendix 11  of the GECP.

    CTC Customs specialists perform screening of the

    account in Thomson Reuters World Check One and verify the validity of the provided End Use Statement in case of accounts located in a "country of concern".

    account through Dow Jones' "Risk and Compliance" and "Factiva" solutions, which contains two main parts as follow:

    • Sanctions Lists : more than 800 sanctions lists (UN, US and EU consolidated lists, Interpol, FBI, etc.) including ownership research and links to Politically Exposed Persons and Special Interest Persons.
    • Adverse Media : more than 1 billion reliable news stories articles including 35 years of archives (over 42% is not freely available on the web) on corruption, financial crime, competition, human rights, and much more.
    Within 24 hours after reception of the email containing all mandatory fields,

    SBS, CCT, CTC answers back to the requestor's email and provides the approved/denied result

    on the transaction.

    The analysis includes:

    Analysis include
    • the partner screening report from
    Thomson Reuters, verification
    • Dow Jones with analysis in case of sanctioned partners;
    • the Dow Jones credentials  to access the adverse media news if any;
    • the  verification and approval/denial of the End Use Statement.

    CTC Customs specialists perform batch screening of existing customers on Dow Jones Risk and Compliance at least every 12 months for both Med-Lab and Solvay R&I centers.

    Any issues related to trade control has to be reported to the GBU Empowered Official.


    For urgent request, outside of Portugal time zone (GMT+1) and which cannot wait a response time of 12 hours, GBU should contact CTC backup contacts as follows:

    ZONES

    SBS MEMBER

    EMAIL

    TELEPHONE

    AMERICAS

    Janice Sarmiento

    janice.sarmiento@solvay.com

    001 (609) 6199 814

    APAC

    Cindy Xiong

    cindy.xiong@solvay.com

    00862 123 502 299

    Teresa Liang

    teresa.liang@solvay.com

    00862 123 502 123


    CTC Process Expert audits the process once per year. 

    4. Roles and

    responsabilities 

    responsibilities


    Actor
    Role
    ResponsabilityResponsibility
    GBUSiteverifies the country of destination and request an End Use Statement when required
    GBUSite

    sends emails to CTC with new account details for manual screening along with a copy of the End Use Statement if needed

    CTCCustoms specialists

    daily check of the new accounts to be analyzed

    CTCCustoms specialistsanalyze new partners in Thomson Reuters Dow Jones and follow internal procedure in case of perfect match
    CTCCustoms specialistsanalyze, approve/deny End Use Statements for accounts located in countries of concernat risk
    CTCProcess Expertprovides support for the license determination
    CTCCustoms specialists

    answer back to the GBU, within 24 hours for Med-Lab and R&I centres or within 48 hours for other requests, after email reception and provide account status (approved or denied)

    CTCCustoms specialistsarchive the screening analysis with resolution case on World Check One Risk and Compliance
    CTCCustoms specialistsperform batch screening of existing customer on World Check One Dow Jones Risk and Compliance at least every 12 months for both Med-Lab and Solvay R&I centers
    GBUEmpowered Officialmanages non compliance issues related to the site
    CTCProcess Expertsupports CTC specialists and audit audits the process once per year



     




     

     

     






    Scope


    UK


    ERP

     



    SAGEThomson

    ReutersDow Jones

    References


    Attachments


    ANNEX:

    1- End Use Policy

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JnjujXhS4CEJcL3EIIcmnk6KGC7RwxkH1I9wFaJY3RkhiZOOxfLNJCH9M9WYkqpPQ