Wherever our activities are carried out, both in France and internationally, we ensure that all the following conditions are met:
• our practices comply with applicable local anticorruption regulations and accounting procedures in effect within the group;
• contracts and agreements with third parties are systematically subject to due diligence, in particular for customers, suppliers, and industrial, strategic or scientific partners;
• membership of non-profit organisations and sponsorship/patronage activities performed in the name of Naval Group are vetted in advance;
• gifts, meals and hospitality are declared whenever they are given to or received from persons outside Naval Group, in accordance with pre-defined thresholds;
• our decisions are free of any conflict of interest, particularly as regards the recruitment of new employees, the choice of new business partners, or the selection of new suppliers;
• our actions in terms of representing interests are declared in the digital register of the HVTAP (High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life).
• our employees are all trained in the prevention of corruption
The Code of Conduct
The Naval Group Anticorruption Code of Conduct sets out the following main rules for behaviour:
• any new business relationship with a third party requires prior compliance checks on the third party;
• no persons may offer or grant, at their request, an undue advantage to public officers or public officials, directly or indirectly, in return for a decision favourable to Naval Group or in return for them misusing their actual or assumed influence to obtain a decision favourable to Naval Group;
• no facilitating payments may be made, meaning an illegal or unofficial payment of a sum in return for services that the person making the payment would have been legally entitled to receive without such a payment;
• an approval circuit must be followed for any request for sponsorship, membership or partnership (scientific or schools), including the opinion of the Compliance Department;
• all gifts and meals, whether received or offered, must be declared to and submitted to the Compliance Department for its opinion, in accordance with the thresholds defined in the Code;
• under the duty of loyalty to the company, no professional, financial, family, political or personal interests may interfere with the judgement of individuals in the performance of their duties;
• everyone plays a role, at their own level, in maintaining good accounting practices.
