Our Code of Conduct: DEFINING OUR CORPORATE CULTURE
Since 2013, our code of conduct has described the central principles of our corporate culture. It was updated in autumn 2020 so that we can continue to meet the increased number of ethical and regulatory requirements presented by our fast-moving world. The code of conduct will therefore continue to guide our decisions and help us to prevent any misconduct. The new and additional content is based on common international standards and requirements.
The code of conduct is binding upon all employees at all CHG-MERIDIAN locations. It also sets out our expectations for how our customers, suppliers, and other business partners should behave. Acting with integrity at all levels creates trust both internally and externally and is essential to our continued commercial success.
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Our Whistle-Blower System
CHG-MERIDIAN expects its employees and business partners to report any compliance violations that they become aware of. Contact persons for such reports include immediate supervisors, senior management, the Group Regulatory Officer as well as an external ombudsman.
Our behaviour towards one another is characterised by respect, trust, and tolerance. We, therefore, handle all reports of possible violations as strictly confidential. We assume that our whistle-blower system will be used responsibly and with integrity.
A report will not be classified as a breach of confidence. Such reports will not result in discriminatory action against the reporting person, provided that he or she made the report in good faith regarding the accuracy of his or her statements. The whistle-blower remains anonymous at all times unless the whistle-blower expressly permits disclosure either in advance or after the fact.
The CHG-MERIDIAN ombudsman is - in addition to the Group Regulatory Officer - the central point of contact and the anonymous authority with respect to CHG-MERIDIAN in the whistle-blower system. The law firm Walder Wyss in Basel (CH) is available as a neutral ombudsman.
Non-disclosure agreement between CHG-MERIDIAN and the ombudsman:
- The ombudsman only handles information provided by whistle-blowers who disclose their identity to the ombudsman.
- The initial grounds for suspicion and the corresponding facts will only be transmitted to CHG-MERIDIAN in an anonymised form.
- The ombudsman is expressly forbidden to disclose the identity of the whistle-blower to CHG-MERIDIAN unless the whistle-blower expressly permits disclosure either in advance or after the fact.
- The processing of information is done in accordance with the applicable data protection requirements.
Your Contacts
You can contact our Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), CHG-MERIDIAN and Ombudsman
Frank Schreiber
Group Regulatory Officer
- CHG-MERIDIAN AG
- Franz-Beer-Straße 111
- 88250 Weingarten
- +49 751 503 246
- +49 151 580 408 43
- compliance@chg-meridian.com
Dr. Philippe Nordmann
Ombudsman
- Walder Wyss
- Aeschenvorstadt 48
- 4051 Basel
- +41 58 658 51 67
- whistleblowing.chg.meridian@walderwyss.com
Note and Sekretariat
Secretariat: Mrs. Caroline Rupp
Tel: +41 58 658 51 67
Consultation hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (CET)
Note:
- Only e-mails up to a size of 30 MB can be sent from and received by the mail server. If it is necessary to send larger volumes of data, a further option (e.g. FTP server or Dropbox) will be provided on request.
- The preferred languages for the processing of incoming e-mails are German and English. The processing of e-mails in other languages may require extra time due to the necessity of a translation.
