Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 61 Working with suppliers to meet by assessing and qualifying over 3500 low-VOC 47K global requirements materials for use, helping our suppliers transition to these alternatives. In 2022, we continued to provide 47,000 validated We’re supporting our suppliers in their efforts to meet additional support for suppliers through trainings on the materials are stored our requirements. And we’ve created systems for our new regulations, which were attended by more than 800 in our comprehensive suppliers to learn about our material specifications, participants. By deploying a VOC specification worldwide, materials library. track and assess the materials they use, and regularly we’re also helping drive adoption of low-VOC alternatives communicate material usage. This also helps our around the world. And we’re working with our suppliers to 93% suppliers meet global standards and regulations identify and develop materials that meet the current and governing their operations. The FMD and CSD programs upcoming complex per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances We collected detailed require suppliers to gather, understand, and share (PFAS) regulatory requirements. chemical information of information on materials they’re using — a requirement 93 percent of Mac Studio beyond regulatory requirements. These programs, along with the RSS, allow us to engage computers by mass and with suppliers through ongoing training. This fosters over 91 percent on average We support supplier engagement with these programs — our partnerships and shared efforts to promote smarter for all iPhone, iPad, and Mac and the RSS — through ongoing training. This continued chemistry in our products and processes. products released in 2022. engagement is central to our partnership and to our shared efforts to promote smarter chemistry in our products and processes. Since 2020, our suppliers in China worked under the new regulations governing the use of materials containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs). And we went even further to support compliance We evaluate materials for substances restricted in our Regulated Substances Specification — including VOCs — using equipment like this gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) system.