How to read this definition
Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.
Can establish this activity
Included when supported
Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.
5 criteria
- 01Criterion
Include entities that directly cultivate, harvest, or manage commercial oil-palm plantations.
- 02Criterion
Include landowners or concession holders where oil palm is currently cultivated on the controlled land and the entity retains substantive economic or operating responsibility.
- 03Criterion
Include integrated agribusinesses with direct oil-palm plantation ownership or operation.
- 04Criterion
Include entities whose current agricultural, regulatory, certification, concession, or operational disclosures establish oil-palm cultivation.
- 05Criterion
Include jointly controlled plantation ventures only where the evaluated entity’s ownership, control, and operating role are separately evidenced under the global relationship rules.
Does not establish this activity on its own
Excluded on this basis alone
These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.
5 criteria
- 01Criterion
Exclude milling, processing, refining, trading, distribution, and downstream use when no plantation ownership or operation is evidenced.
- 02Criterion
Exclude traders, distributors, buyers, retailers, and consumer-goods manufacturers without direct oil-palm cultivation or plantation control.
- 03Criterion
Exclude cultivation of coconut, soybean, rapeseed, sunflower, olive, or other oil crops without oil-palm activity.
- 04Criterion
Exclude forestry, agricultural, land-development, or real-estate holdings where current oil-palm cultivation is not established.
- 05Criterion
Exclude fully divested or ceased plantation operations from current involvement while preserving historical involvement, location, and effective dates.
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