1. Compliance@SCHOTT
“Compliance is a must, not an option,” – this is the guiding principle behind the Compliance Program at SCHOTT.
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Compliance@SCHOTT is the main title of the Compliance Program at SCHOTT, in other words the SCHOTT Code of Conduct, the corporate guidelines and measures derived from it and the Compliance Organization responsible for enforcing it. The main goal of Compliance work is to ensure that SCHOTT remains a successful company over the long-term. Making our people more aware of Compliance topics is one of the main objectives. The aim is to do preventive work in a systematic manner in order to prevent violations of the law and our corporate guidelines. SCHOTT mainly achieves this with the help of a worldwide training program, by setting internal Compliance standards and by systematically following up on the Compliance measures that have been established, but also by sanctioning violations of the rules that apply.
SCHOTT AG established the Compliance Office as a central Corporate Function in order to make sure that this is achieved during our everyday work. The main responsibilities of the Compliance Office pertain to the topics of Anti-Corruption, Antitrust, Data Protection, Export Control, Information Protection as well as Security. The Compliance Office is supported by regional Compliance Representatives in the United States and Asia as well as local Compliance Representatives who work for SCHOTT Business Units and sites worldwide.
Furthermore, SCHOTT also introduced a whistleblowing system in 2011 that allows for SCHOTT employees all over the world to share information on potential violations of the law or the SCHOTT Code of Conduct in a confidential manner. Here, Attorneys who do not work for the company act as recipients of this information (so-called ombudsmen).
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