Compliance

Our Compliance Management System aims to establish an active value system and reinforce the staff's individual responsibility, going much further than straightforward compliance with legislation and regulations. This includes acting jointly to prevent and combat conduct that financially harms or discredits our company, staff or partners.

Through the company-wide whistleblower scheme, we are providing all staff and external individuals with a mechanism to ensure that conduct within the company complies with the law and that breaches are detected. In particular, human rights and environmental risks and violations of human rights and environmental obligations can be reported here in accordance with the Geman Supply Chain Act (LkSG). In this regard, we refer to the Rules of Procedure (§8 para. 2 LkSG). There, the due diligence obligations are listed, for which notifications according to the LkSG can be submitted.

Whistleblowers who report wrongdoings for ethical or moral reasons are not informers. They are giving significant assistance in safeguarding both the values of our society and the values by which we work together in the company. Please bear in mind, however, that the statements you make about others could lead to decisions that will have consequences for these people. We ask that you only make information available to us which, to the best of your knowledge, is accurate.

With your help, therefore, criminal activities can be detected at an early stage, offenders can be investigated and further harm can be avoided.

If you want to report wrongdoings, you recognized you can do this via our electronic whistleblower platform. Anonymous reports can also be submitted. Anonymity is guaranteed.

You can contact any of the people listed below, who will of course treat all information confidentially and in accordance with legal requirements. At the very least English will be spoken along with the language of the country. Please note the normal office hours for the country in each case, as the contact persons are normally only available at those times.

However, we recommend that you use our electronic whistleblower platform, particularly for submitting anonymous reports, as this platform has special technical mechanisms to ensure anonymity.

You can submit your tips not only to Voith itself. It is possible to report the information to the following government authorities at any time. The processing of the information received there is based on the regulations of the respective authority.

Federal Office of Justice

Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

Federal Cartel Office

In the following file you will find legal information about our whistleblowing system.

Voith rejects any form of human trafficking, forced labor or child labor. This declaration complies with the "UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948," the "California Transparency in Supply Chains Act 2010" and the "UK Modern Slavery Act 2015."

This policy statement testifies to our deep-rooted ambition to act ethically and responsibly, enhancing our existing regulations for comprehensive compliance with our legal due diligence obligations. We commit to respecting human rights and environmental regulatory obligations throughout our entire supply chain and consider the protection of human rights and the preservation of our environment as central elements of our corporate culture.