The new tesa Antitrust Compliance Program helps ensure fair competition by providing information on aspects relevant from an antitrust law standpoint.
Integrity and proper conduct
Integrity and responsibility are vital and essential components of our actions. We conduct our business as a company in strict compliance with laws and regulations. The tesa Group categorically rejects all forms of corruption and unlawful or immoral conduct. In 2010, the Management Board therefore passed an anti-corruption guideline for the Group, in coordination with Beiersdorf, which is intended to help employees recognize corruption risks and avoid breaches of law. The guideline will be further implemented and included in training measures in the course of 2011.
When a company does business worldwide, it is forced to appeal to its partners’ own sense of responsibility to a certain extent. With the tesa Code of Conduct, we give our own employees a clear understanding of our values. It provides guidance and fosters both integrity and responsible conduct. And if questions arise in individual cases, a Compliance Manager is available to act in an advisory capacity. We also expect our suppliers to uphold values and standards that are comparable to our own. Our cooperation with our partners is defined in the tesa Purchasing Charter.
tesa traditionally stands for trust. This image is associated with virtues that guarantee free markets and fair competition. To ensure that this is the case consistently, all over the world, we established the tesa Antitrust Compliance Program at the end of 2009. It raises our employees’ awareness of antitrust issues in order to prevent potential violations. We operate a special intranet platform that features the most important information on aspects that are relevant from an antitrust law standpoint as well as guidelines for conduct that complies with antitrust law in our day-to-day business dealings.
In June 2010 we successfully concluded training sessions in Germany for all decision makers and employees with contacts that could involve antitrust law issues, such as sales and marketing employees. Since the fourth quarter of 2010, an e-learning-program has been available in several languages, with the assistance of which we have already trained all the European affiliates. Likewise, in 2011 we will train colleagues in North and South America as well as in Asia via e-learning.
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