Day 059 - 01 Dec 94 - Page 60
1 Q. Well, you are the senior Vice President, surely you would
2 know something like that?
3 A. No, I would not. I cannot be responsible to know what
4 happens on every committee and every task force, unless
5 I am told or I ask about a particular subject.
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7 Q. Was this not something that would affect your department?
8 A. I do not think it did directly.
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10 Q. Right, OK. So, you would not know when it was adopted by
11 the company?
12 A. No. I think this is something that you should ask
13 Perseco, because in terms of packaging they act on our
14 behalf.
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16 Q. Can I just ask, Mr. Mike Matthews, it says, is the manager
17 of the Local Government Affairs and Special Projects. What
18 does that mean?
19 A. He was at that time. He is not today, but at that time
20 he would have liaised directly with local government
21 authorities on any issues concerning McDonald's, not just
22 packaging or environment.
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24 Q. So that would be things like planning and things like that?
25 A. He may get involved in planning. It is usually the
26 planning, the real estate department would handle their own
27 planning issues, but he could have got involved in that
28 area.
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30 Q. Can you get pink Volume V down, please? Keep your
31 statement there because we may need it again.
32 A. OK.
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34 Q. Can you turn to tab 30?
35 A. Yes.
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37 Q. Is that the policy statement you are talking about or not,
38 or is it something different, I mean, I do not know, so?
39 A. I am sorry, what policy statement?
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41 Q. Your corporate environmental policy?
42 A. Oh, "The task force developed and published our
43 corporate environmental policy", yes, I believe so.
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45 Q. You think that is it?
46 A. I believe it is. I am not -- yes, I believe it is.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remind me what you have in mind. You say,
49 "Is that the policy statement you were talking about",
50 when and in what terms was he talking about it?
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52 MS. STEEL: I did not use the word "statement" previously but
53 the corporate environmental policy. We were talking about
54 that previously.
55 A. Are you waiting for me?
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57 Q. Yes. So you think that is probably the policy?
58 A. As far as I am aware it is. I was not involved so
59 I cannot be certain but it looks like it.
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