With our long and varied experience in business, we value fair competition, abide by the laws that regulate our activities, and always choose transparent relationships with our customers, partners, suppliers and employees. We avoid conflicts of interest, which could soil our good name and negatively influence service provision. We are deeply committed to transparency and high standards in our work as key ways to ensure a good reputation.
We are convinced that our anti-corruption programme lays solid foundations for our long-term competitiveness and helps us to engage and work together with our customers and world-class partners.
- We act in keeping with our values of trust, responsibility, openness to change, and enjoyment of working together.
- We value and operate in accordance with the principles of honesty, transparency and exemplary behaviour.
- Our management is firmly committed to anti-corruption practices and we educate of our employees in these matters.
- We expect and demand fair and honest business dealings from our customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
- We abide by the requirements of the national legislation that regulates our activities along with the operating standards and norms of business ethics that they envisage.
- We strictly observe the laws, rules, and regulations that govern the acquisition of goods and services by any governmental entity and the performance of government contracts.
- We forbid our employees from any agreements or discussions with competitors about prices, costs, profits, bids or quotes for a specific customer‘s business.
- We understand and apply all related global trade laws and regulations to ensure no technology, data, information or materials will be imported or exported acting against the law.
- We fulfil our commitments fairly and honestly.
- We safeguard commercial secrets and confidential information. We also oblige our employees to ensure that confidential information is duly safeguarded.
- In performing our job duties, we follow internal instructions, policies and approaches.
- We assess our employees’ integrity and level of tolerance for corruption.
- We have explicitly defined behaviours that are not tolerated (giving or taking a bribe, unacceptable gifts, abuse of office, forgery, fraud, favouritism, nepotism, lobbying, disseminating misleading information, failure to comply with competition law, disclosure of commercial secrets, incorrect reporting of income, profit or assets, conflicts of interest, non-transparent support, subjective decisions in selecting a supplier’s services or products).
- We have employment policies and procedures in place with which employees are acquainted and the importance of which they are regularly reminded.
- We forbid our employees from directly or indirectly, on their own or through another person, offering a customer, potential customer or other person any gift or other type of favour in exchange for that customer, potential customer or other person purchasing services which we offer.
- We forbid our employees from directly or indirectly, on their own or through another person, requesting or demanding gifts, money or other types of favours from suppliers, potential suppliers or other persons.
- We do not involve in any form of non-transparent or irregular means of payment in order to prevent potential money laundering, which involves disguising, channelling unlawfully obtained money, or transforming such money into legitimate funds.
- We do not give or receive any gifts that could be interpreted as an incentive or a reward for taking a decision or as a sign of favouritism.
- We do not tolerate any manifestations or forms of corruption. We have a zero-tolerance attitude to corruption. When corruption is suspected, we will analyse the situation and identify the risks, consequences and preventive actions to be taken.
- We conduct purchasing transparently, making prudent and rational use of products, services and funds.
- We have defined procedures for the management, use and disposal of assets.
- We always pay taxes on time.
- We do not provide support to any political parties, political organisations or politicians.