FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
AMCOR PLC
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Jersey
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001-38932
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98-1455367
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(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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83 Tower Road North
Warmley, Bristol
United Kingdom
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BS30 8XP
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Ron Delia, Chief Executive Officer
+44 117 9753200
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(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report)
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Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which
this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:
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x
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Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31,
2020.
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Section 1 – Conflict
Minerals Report
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Item 1.01
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
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Introduction
This Specialized
Disclosure Report on Form SD for the year ended December 31, 2020, is presented by Amcor plc (which may be referenced as “Amcor,”
“it,” “we,” “us” or “our”) to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “Rule”). The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)
to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to “conflict minerals” in the form of columbite-tantalite, cassiterite,
gold, wolframite or their derivatives (“3TG”), which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten, as directed by the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants for which conflict
minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured by the registrant or contracted to be manufactured
by the registrant. The reporting and disclosure requirements apply to all registrants, wherever the geographic origin of the conflict
minerals.
Amcor is
a global manufacturer of packaging products, including flexible packaging, rigid packaging, specialty cartons and closure products, which
are sold to customers participating a range of attractive end-use areas throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and the
Asia Pacific regions. Amcor requires suppliers that provide us with products, materials or components containing 3TG to submit information
to us that allows us to conduct due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the 3TG in our supply chain. We expect our suppliers
to adopt policies and establish their own due diligence programs to ensure the 3TG in our mutual supply chain is “DRC conflict free,”
meaning that it does not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining
country (the “Covered Countries”) or is from recycled or scrap sources, and to provide us only with 3TG or products containing
3TG that are DRC conflict free. If we become aware of a supplier whose supply chain includes 3TG that is not DRC conflict free, we will
take appropriate steps to remedy the situation in a timely manner, including reassessment of the supplier relationship. We expect our
suppliers to take similar measures with their own suppliers.
Amcor Practices Sustainability
in Procurement and Supply Chain Activities
Amcor is
committed to managing, understanding, and reporting on our environmental footprint, which includes reporting on our responsible procurement
activities. We also acknowledge such an expansive supply chain as a potential source of environmental, labor, and human rights risks.
Though the packaging industry’s supply chain is less susceptible to such issues than many other industries, we must remain vigilant
to protect ourselves, our customers, and our communities. Amcor’s procurement function works closely with our suppliers to maintain
a supply chain that is responsible, ethical, and transparent by proactively tracking and managing the environmental and social impacts
of our purchasing activities. All Amcor suppliers are required to comply with the principles outlined in our Supplier Code of Conduct,
which covers the areas of business integrity, labor standards, occupational health, and environmental management and improvement. Our
goal is for 100% of strategic and critical suppliers to sign our Supplier Code of Conduct or to demonstrate they have an equivalent internal
code of conduct in place. As of our fiscal year 2020, approximately 93% of these suppliers representing 74% of the $4 billion USD total
spend within their categories have achieved this benchmark.
Amcor also
requests all our strategic and critical suppliers to complete assessments through the EcoVadis global supply chain sustainability rating
platform. EcoVadis helps us evaluate each supplier’s performance in the areas of environment, labor practices and human rights,
fair business practices and procurement sustainability. Based on a supplier’s responses, our procurement and sustainability teams
can assess whether additional interventions are necessary to reduce risk and, if so, correctively engage with the supplier. In our fiscal
year 2020, we set a goal for 75% of our strategic and critical suppliers to have completed an EcoVadis assessment within the past two
years. Approximately 48% of these suppliers met this goal, representing 54% of spend within those supplier categories. Engaging with suppliers
to achieve increased participation rates remains a key fiscal year 2021 goal across our global procurement teams
Several Amcor
Business Groups also require suppliers to answer a set of sustainability-related questions during the onboarding process. This helps our
procurement teams assess and address potential environmental and social risks before we initiate a relationship with the supplier. To
ensure our procurement functions remain informed and current on the latest goals and issues related to responsible procurement, our sustainability
team conducts ongoing trainings for all procurement team members at or above the category manager level. Amcor also works with customers
and peers to advance responsible procurement across the industry through groups such as AIM-PROGRESS, which offers a pre-competitive environment
for collaboration and brainstorming on human rights and environmental issues in the supply chain.
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Amcor has
developed an intra-company Conflict Minerals Questionnaire that each year requires designated senior personnel within the procurement
function of each of Amcor’s business groups to review the group’s products and operations and determine whether the group
manufactures, or contracts for the manufacture of, products containing 3TG. Where the response to these inquiries is in the affirmative,
the designated personnel are required to identify the suppliers of such 3TG, or products containing 3TG. Senior Amcor procurement personnel
then contact all identified suppliers of such 3TG, or products containing 3TG, to inform them about the 3TG issue, to advise them of Amcor’s
commitment to sourcing 3TG responsibly and to elicit information about the suppliers’ sourcing of all such 3TG supplied to Amcor.
Amcor made
a good-faith inquiry of responsible personnel within Amcor’s business groups that manufactured products, or that contracted for
the manufacture of products, during the year ended December 31, 2020, to determine whether any of those products contained 3TG. Based
on this inquiry, Amcor determined that certain products it manufactured, or for which it contracted for the manufacture, during the year
ended December 31, 2020, contained 3TG (principally, tin).
Amcor then
made a further good-faith inquiry of its suppliers of 3TG, or products containing 3TG. The inquiry was reasonably designed to determine
whether any of such 3TG originated in a Covered Country or were from recycled or scrap sources.
Based on
Amcor’s suppliers’ responses, Amcor has determined that the 3TG in its products manufactured, or contracted to be manufactured,
during the year ended December 31, 2020, did not originate in a Covered Country, and Amcor has no reason to believe that the 3TG
in its products originated in a Covered Country. In addition, all suppliers who supply Amcor with any 3TG for the manufacture of products
containing such 3TG have confirmed that such suppliers source 3TG through smelters or refiners verified as conformant with the Responsible
Minerals Initiative’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, a widely recognized standard that uses independent, third-party audit
assessment of smelter and refiner management systems and sourcing practices for responsible mineral procurement.
This Specialized
Disclosure Report on Form SD is available on Amcor’s publicly available Internet website at https://www.amcor.com/investors/financial-information/sec-filings.
Not applicable.
Section 2 – Exhibits
Not applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.
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Amcor plc
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(Registrant)
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Date: May 28,
2021
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By:
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/s/ Damien Clayton
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Damien Clayton
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Corporate Secretary
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