This is Toyota Motor Europe’s fifth Sustainability Report. It covers the environmental, social and economic performance for the financial year 2010 (FY10) from the 1st April 2010 to the 31st March 2011. This report follows our 2010 Sustainability Report which was published in September 2010. We have been reporting our environmental performance since 2001 when we published our first annual Environmental Report. A dedicated network of people in our company have contributed to this report by providing high-quality, accurate and transparent information. We thank them for their ongoing commitment and support.
Report Coordination Team (from left to right):
Willy Tomboy, Maria Isabel Rodriguez Leon,
Sharka Holler, Stephan Herbst
Data collection and measurement
The environmental performance data in this report is gathered from internal reporting procedures. The methodology used is in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute.
The social performance data is from formal statistics on customer relations, product quality, safety, health and human resources. The economic data comes from the finance group and is fully in line with corporate annual reporting procedures. There are no changes in the
reporting procedure from the previous year.
This report uses the international sustainability reporting framework, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 guidelines. The framework has helped to structure the content by enabling us to report on our environmental, social and economic performance. The report applies the GRI framework to an A level, which means we have undertaken the G3 Profi le and Management Approach disclosures and reported on all core indicators. The GRI index is available on pages 67-71.
Net Balance Management Group has checked our reporting and has confirmed it to be Application Level A.
About Toyota Motor Europe
Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA, (Toyota Motor Europe - TME) is 100% owned by Toyota Motor Corporation and has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. TME is responsible for all Western, Central and Eastern European countries including the Canary Islands, Turkey
and Russia, as well as Israel and a number of Central Asian markets (Armenia, Azerbaijan, East Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).
TME oversees the wholesale sales and marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and Toyota’s European manufacturing and engineering operations. TME has operations in 17 countries with 9 manufacturing plants, 9 vehicle logistics centres, and 14 parts distribution centres. The manufacturing plant Caetano in Portugal (TCAP) is a joint venture in which Toyota Motor Corporation has a 27% share. Until the end of March 2011, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia (TMMR) was fully owned by Toyota
Motor Corporation. Hence data of TCAP and TMMR are not included in this report in order to keep consistency with the final results of our Five Year Environmental Action Plan FY06-FY10. Both plants will be included in the Sustainability Report from FY12.
We welcome your comments on this report and invite you to share them with us via email at environment@toyota-europe.com.
We hope you find this report of interest.
