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**(69 amended)*

• If all employees are paid an adequate wage, stating this and the benchmarks used for its assessment is sufficient to fulfil this requirement.

**(AR 72 amended)*

• The basis of this calculation is the lowest wage among the undertaking’s employees, excluding interns and apprentices. This means basic wage plus any fixed additional payments that are guaranteed to all employees. The lowest wage shall be considered separately for each country in which the undertaking has operations, except if the relevant adequate minimum wage is defined at sub-national level.

**(AR 73 amended)*

• The adequate wage benchmark used for comparison with the lowest wage shall not be lower than:

(a) in the EU: the wage level established through collective bargaining or the statutory minimum wage set in accordance with Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council³ on adequate minimum wages in the EU;

(b) outside of the EU:

• i. the adequate minimum wage established by legislation or collective bargaining which provides a decent standard of living as confirmed by a calculation in line with the ILO principles on estimating a living wage; or
• ii. any living wage estimate, including estimates produced by an institution mandated by the public authorities of the country where the workers are based, which takes into account the ILO principles on estimating a living wage. > ³ Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33).