Product Life Cycle

To meet the company's environmental commitments, National Instruments works with suppliers who are equally invested in being responsible corporate citizens. NI also complies with international standards that regulate environmental management and manufacturing operations. No NI contracts with suppliers include criteria or screening on human rights.

Supplier Citizenship Requirements
To set citizenship expectations with suppliers, NI requires the following from them:

• Compliance with the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) Code of Conduct for the fair treatment of workers, a healthy and safe work environment, the protection of the environment, and outstanding business ethics. Suppliers sign the NI Supplier Code of Conduct, established in 2008, as an acknowledgement of this commitment. 100 percent of key suppliers and 65 percent of the total supplier base have signed the Code of Conduct, and no suppliers declined to sign it.
• Participation in the NI supplier assessment, which is sent to all new suppliers in its global supply base, ensuring they comply with key initiatives such as RoHS, REACH, and the NI Supplier Code of Conduct.
• Completion of a supplier citizenship survey to be used as a baseline for their current program. Citizenship surveys completed by suppliers are meant to evaluate a company's sustainability in the areas of energy and climate, material efficiency, natural resources, people, and community. Supplier progress in these areas is monitored through quarterly business reviews conducted by NI.

Environmental Management
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14000 is a series of international standards addressing environmental management that provides a framework to help participating organizations create an Environmental Management System.

The specific 14001 standard within the series applies to those environmental aspects that the organization controls and can influence. Both NI manufacturing facilities – one in Austin, Texas, and one in Debrecen, Hungary – are certified to ISO 14001. NI is using Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria to investigate effective energy and water saving strategies in the design and development of its new facility in Penang, Malaysia.

Manufacturing Operations
NI is working toward full conformance with the OHSAS 18001 standard, which helps companies control occupational health and safety risks. The standard is part of the OHSAS 18000 international occupational health and safety management system specification.

For the third year in a row, the manufacturing group at NI corporate headquarters has experienced only one recordable injury, and the site as a whole continues to experience injury and illness rates far below the national industry average.

Manufacturing Site Environmental Permits and Registrations
Visit ni.com/environment to read the company's environmental policy regarding manufacturing operations.

U.S. Federal

• EPA Waste Registration

State of Texas

• Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission Air Permit Exemption
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Industrial and Hazardous Waste Registration

City of Austin

• City of Austin Wastewater Permit
• Hazardous Materials Ordinance Permit

Hungarian Ministry
For information about waste registration, contact Mariann Murguly, 9011 36 52 5240, at NI Hungary.

Hungarian Regional

• Air Emissions Permit
• Wastewater Permit