voestalpine AG Corporate Responsibility Report 2018 - Ethical corporate management (optimized for printing)

SDG 5 – Gender Equality SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and strong Institutions

SDG 07 – Affordable and clean energy (photo)

Ethical corporate management is responsible corporate governance that is geared to creating sustainable, long-term value, and to ensuring that the conduct of all Group employees is in compliance with statutory provisions and internal guidelines as well as fundamental moral and ethical values.

Ethical corporate management

In order to ensure that the management and control of the Group follows the goal of creating responsible, sustainable and long-term value, the Management Board and Supervisory Board announced that the Group would abide by the Austrian Corporate Governance Code as early as 2003.

Compliance

We commit to complying with all the laws in all of the countries in which voestalpine is active. Furthermore, compliance is the expression of a culture built on ethical and moral principles.

Human rights

We commit to upholding human rights in accordance with the UN Charter and the European Convention of Human Rights, and we support the UN Global Compact.