Glossary

Business units Subsidiaries of PJSC MMC NORILSK NICKEL
Complaint/report Message containing information on a current or potential issue pertaining to the Company’s activities and raising a legitimate concern, as well as on an adverse impact on the Company’s stakeholders and employees, violation of human rights, protection of assets and corporate interests, prevention of abuse, theft, and other violations at the Company’s units
Corporate Trust Line The Company’s internal grievance mechanism for receiving and addressing complaints pertaining to breaches of ethics, security risks, and human rights violations
Grievance mechanism Additional corporate procedure available to external stakeholders (local and indigenous communities, suppliers, or contractors, etc.)
Human rights Rights that belong to every person in the world regardless of their origin, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, or status
Human rights due diligence Set of measures that includes assessing impacts and risks in the value chain and conducting business responsibly in order to prevent and mitigate human rights abuses and hold businesses accountable for such abuses in which the businesses may be implicated through their own operations or relationships
Human rights risk Potential adverse impact on right holders resulting in their rights being infringed or restricted and arising inadvertently from the Company’s activities and/or violation of the Company’s policies and codes by its employees
Indigenous small‑numbered peoples of the North Peoples traditionally living within the Company’s operating regions, who lead a traditional way of life and have a special legal status
Nornickel Group PJSC MMC NORILSK NICKEL and its subsidiaries
Risk The effect of uncertainty on objectives
Stakeholder engagement The Company’s activities aimed at identifying stakeholders’ expectations and concerns and their engagement in the decision‑making process
Stakeholders Individuals, legal entities, groups, associations, and other organisations whose interests can be potentially affected by the Company’s operations, as well as parties that can influence it