The SCHOLL­GLAS Group's Code of Con­duct

 

With this Code of Con­duct, the Scholl­glas Group in­tends to de­fine in more de­tail the prin­ci­ples that it un­der­stands nec­es­sary for its busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ties. Prin­ci­ples of eth­i­cal and le­gal stan­dards are in­dis­pens­able in busi­ness and must be fol­lowed at all lev­els.

This Code of Con­duct ap­plies to all com­pa­nies in the Scholl­glas group of com­pa­nies (Scholl­glas).

 

1. Com­pli­ance with laws

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with ap­plic­a­ble laws and reg­u­la­tions in all coun­tries in which Scholl­glas does busi­ness. These in­clude, in par­tic­u­lar, recog­nised hu­man rights reg­u­la­tions, oc­cu­pa­tional health and safety laws, anti-cor­rup­tion laws, data pro­tec­tion laws, com­pe­ti­tion laws, an­titrust laws and en­vi­ron­men­tal laws.

 

2. Avoid­ance of con­flicts of in­ter­est

 

Scholl­glas takes care to avoid con­flicts of in­ter­est as much as pos­si­ble. To the ex­tent that con­flicts of in­ter­est could arise, Scholl­glas will try to counter such con­flicts of in­ter­est in each in­di­vid­ual case with pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures in or­der to pre­vent them from aris­ing.

 

3. Fair com­pe­ti­tion

 

Scholl­glas will con­tinue to en­gage in hon­est, fair, re­spon­si­ble and merit-based com­pe­ti­tion.

Scholl­glas does not en­gage in or tol­er­ate in­ad­miss­ible com­pet­i­tive prac­tices or un­law­ful agree­ments un­der an­titrust law.

 

Scholl­glas also does not tol­er­ate any ac­tive or pas­sive bribery or ac­cep­tance of ad­van­tages.

Cor­rup­tion and in­ad­mis­si­ble forms of po­lit­i­cal in­flu­ence will not be tol­er­ated or sup­ported by Scholl­glas. Only gifts on spe­cial oc­ca­sions that have grown out of tra­di­tion on a small scale are tol­er­ated.

 

Crim­i­nal acts dur­ing com­pe­ti­tion will not be tol­er­ated by Scholl­glas.

 

4. Money Laun­der­ing Pre­ven­tion

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with all rel­e­vant le­gal reg­u­la­tions on the pre­ven­tion of money laun­der­ing and does not par­tic­i­pate in money laun­der­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

 

5. Equal treat­ment and non-dis­crim­i­na­tion

 

Scholl­glas pro­motes di­ver­sity in the com­pany and does not tol­er­ate any un­equal treat­ment or dis­crim­i­na­tion in the em­ploy­ment of em­ploy­ees (ILO Con­ven­tions No. 100 and No. 11). Only an ob­jec­tive rea­son can jus­tify un­equal treat­ment in in­di­vid­ual cases, in­so­far as this is in ac­cor­dance with the statu­tory pro­vi­sions.

 

 

6. Oc­cu­pa­tional Health and Safety / Forced Labour

 

Scholl­glas strictly re­jects child labour and com­plies with the ap­plic­a­ble pro­vi­sions pro­hibit­ing child labour (ILO Con­ven­tions No. 138 and No. 182).

 

Scholl­glas does not tol­er­ate forced labour in any form and does not use any kind of forced labour (ILO Con­ven­tions No. 29 and No. 105).

Scholl­glas also en­sures that work­ers are not sub­jected to in­hu­man or de­grad­ing treat­ment, cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment or sim­i­lar ef­fects.

 

The safety of peo­ple, es­pe­cially em­ploy­ees, is im­por­tant to Scholl­glas.

For this rea­son, Scholl­glas of­fers a safe and healthy work­ing en­vi­ron­ment, safety-re­lated mea­sures and

the safety of their prod­ucts and ser­vices.

Scholl­glas elim­i­nates and min­imises, as far as pos­si­ble and reas­on­able, all haz­ards in the work­ing en­vi­ron­ment, on the ba­sis of the gen­eral state of knowl­edge in the field of safety and health for the re­spec­tive sec­tors of Scholl­glas's ac­tiv­ity.

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with the ap­plic­a­ble laws and stan­dards on oc­cu­pa­tional health and safety and work­ing hours.

 

7. Work­ers' rights

 

In ac­cor­dance with the re­spec­tive na­tional leg­is­la­tion, Scholl­glas re­spects the rights of em­ploy­ees to form an em­ployee rep­re­sen­ta­tion by free elec­tion and to con­duct col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing on be­half of em­ploy­ees as well as to set in for the pro­tec­tion of the rights of em­ploy­ees in the re­spec­tive af­fil­i­ated com­pa­nies.

 

Scholl­glas re­mu­ner­ates its em­ploy­ees ap­pro­pri­ately and in ac­cor­dance with the re­spec­tive na­tional laws and stan­dards.

 

As far as pos­si­ble and reas­on­able, Scholl­glas uses to per­form work on the ba­sis of a reg­u­lar em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship, as de­fined by the re­spec­tive na­tional laws.

 

8. Sus­tain­abil­ity and en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with all rel­e­vant en­vi­ron­men­tal laws and cur­rent en­vi­ron­men­tal stan­dards.

 

Scholl­glas is aware that sus­tain­abil­ity of pro­duc­tion and busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ties should be achieved as far as pos­si­ble and reas­on­able.

In this con­text, Scholl­glas strives to de­velop prod­ucts that are as re­cy­clable as pos­si­ble, to avoid waste or to re­cy­cle it in the best pos­si­ble way be­fore pos­si­ble dis­posal, and, as far as pos­si­ble and reas­on­able, to han­dle re­sources such as wa­ter and en­ergy care­fully and to con­tin­u­ously op­ti­mize the use of re­sources.

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with all le­gal reg­u­la­tions, guide­lines and reg­u­la­tions in the field of reg­u­lated sub­stances, such as the REACH Di­rec­tive, the RoHS Di­rec­tive, the CLP Reg­u­la­tion, etc.

 

With re­gard to so-called con­flict min­er­als, Scholl­glas also com­plies with the rel­e­vant le­gal reg­u­la­tions and reg­u­la­tions, such as the EU Con­flict Min­er­als Reg­u­la­tion (Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/821), the US Dodd-Frank Act, etc.

 

9. Prod­uct safety

 

The safety, re­li­a­bil­ity, qual­ity and per­for­mance of the prod­ucts is es­sen­tial for Scholl­glas.

All Scholl­glas prod­ucts must there­fore com­ply with the na­tional and in­ter­na­tional le­gal stan­dards, tech­ni­cal stan­dards such as DIN stan­dards and as­so­ci­a­tion stan­dards, as well as in­ter­nal qual­ity guide­lines.

 

 

10. Con­fi­den­tial­ity and data pro­tec­tion

 

Scholl­glas com­plies with all le­gal reg­u­la­tions on data pro­tec­tion.

The con­fi­den­tial­ity of com­pany and busi­ness se­crets is main­tained by Scholl­glas and its em­ploy­ees.

 

11. Ex­port/Im­port and Sanc­tions

 

With re­gard to its global busi­ness ori­en­ta­tion, Scholl­glas en­sures com­pli­ance with all ap­plic­a­ble laws and reg­u­la­tions for the im­port and ex­port of goods, ser­vices and in­for­ma­tion as well as the ap­plic­a­ble em­bar­goes and sanc­tions.

 

 

 

Bars­ing­hausen, 24.11.2023

 

Scholl­glas Hold­ing- und Geschäftsführungs­ge­sellschaft mbH

 

 

 

 

Günter Wei­de­mann

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Ralf Ludewig

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Sven Völlmer

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Michael Stock

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Guido Steimann

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

In­golf Rüpke

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Bernard Pavlic

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor

 

Alexan­der Loth

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor                                    

 

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