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The governance of sustainability topics and IROs identified through the double materiality assessment is organized through various boards, working groups, and reporting streams to ensure full alignment and the involvement of all relevant parties. The central Sustainability function at TRATON reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and the other Truck Board members via the TRATON Sustainability Board and is responsible for coordinating sustainability management at TRATON. Developing TRATON's sustainability strategy is a cross-functional task with responsibilities embedded in several central TRATON functions and at the level of the brands. [...] The TRATON Sustainability Board (TSB) consists of the Truck Board, Heads of Sustainability at TRATON GROUP, and all brands and the Head of ESG. The TSB sets the overall direction and ambition level and approves commitments, group targets, and binding regulations. It also oversees the overall approach for managing impacts, risks and opportunities identified via the DMA. New programs and measures, commitments, and the DMA receive their final approval from the TSB and at the level of each brand. The TSB held four meetings in 2024 and approved in particular the material impact, risks and opportunities of the DMA. The outcomes of the TSB are documented through meeting minutes, signed by the CEO and the Chief Sustainability Officer."
"The TRATON Sustainability Board played an active role in these efforts by defining sponsors for sustainability matters to ensure effective implementation and accountability. [...] The Chief Sustainability Officer of TRATON GROUP holds the highest level of accountability for this policy. [...] The TRATON Sustainability Board has approved circularity as a TRATON joint impact area, and approved circularity commitment to decouple resource use from business growth. [...] Sponsors were appointed within the TRATON Sustainability Board to ensure the effective implementation of these sustainability matters. [...] The TRATON SE Executive Board is responsible for approving these regulations. [...] TRATON SE is registered in the German lobby register for the representation of interests vis-à-vis the German Parliament and the Federal Government under registration number R001565. The TRATON Public Affairs department is in direct (with politicians) and indirect (via associations, NGOs, other stakeholders) contact to decision-makers. The TRATON GROUP's responsibilities for monitoring lobbying activities are set out in the TRATON Code of Conduct for employees and other Group policies (Donations and sponsoring, Public affairs one-voice-policy, state aid and grant register as well as Handling gifts, hospitality and invitations to events and conflicts of interest).

To establish suitable framework conditions, the TRATON GROUP and our brands maintain consistent dialogue with political, scientific, media, and business representatives. This engagement includes participation in associations, hosting events, and contributing to discussions in the political sphere. [...] For this reason, the TRATON GROUP, encompassing its Scania, MAN, Navistar and Volkswagen Truck & Bus (VWTB) brands, is committed to advising political decision-makers by leveraging its expertise in commercial vehicles, logistics flows and drive technologies. \"We actively and constructively engage in political legislative processes that shape the business models of TRATON GROUP brands and drive the transformation of the commercial vehicle industry,\" says Dirk Höke, Head of Governmental Relations in the TRATON GROUP. \"To establish suitable framework conditions, the TRATON GROUP and our brands maintain consistent dialogue with political, scientific, media, and business representatives. This engagement includes participation in associations, hosting events, and contributing to discussions in the political sphere.\"

Navistar works to develop incentive programs through law and regulation, set reasonable standards, deploy charging infrastructure, and address other issues that affect the enabling conditions for the EV transition. Navistar also cautions state and federal governments on the implementation of mandates without proper deployment of the infrastructure needed by customers to use the vehicles we produce. [...] "As a manufacturer of buses and trucks, we have the entire North American market in mind, and the only way to ensure that governments and customers meet their zero-emission goals is for governments to create programs, policies, and regulations, that are aligned and that enable the deployment of vehicles and infrastructure," says Andrew Lund, manager of federal government affairs at Navistar. [...] "Navistar prefers uniform standards for ease of implementation, but above all we advocate for requirements that are feasible and understandable for our customers and ourselves and that also provide certainty in the market." [...] "Navistar works with both major parties to address concerns, develop consensus where we can, and create that clear and achievable path for our business and our customers." [...] "The successful electrification of transportation in the United States will require extensive cooperation between all stakeholders including federal regulators, state and local governments, OEMs, supply chain vendors (especially for batteries), and utilities and power producers, and importantly require the confidence of customers that these vehicles meet their requirements for operational performance, and cost-effectiveness," says Brien Sheahan, a former chairman and CEO of the state public utility commission of Illinois and a senior advisor for government relations and regulatory policy at Navistar.