Compliance
Compliance
Excellence and integrity - Zeppelin's guiding principles
Zeppelin has earned an excellent reputation over the course of decades. Technical performance, pioneering spirit, quality, customer focus, and reliability have made us a leading company in our markets. Especially as a foundation company, Zeppelin is synonymous with top performance according to high standards.
The Code of Conduct: Business Ethics and Compliance delineates the ethical-legal framework within which we act. It defines the basic principles of our conduct within Zeppelin and in our relations with our partners and the public. It presents the principles of our corporate actions and expresses our corporate values.
Supplier Code of Conduct
As a foundation company, environmentally and socially responsible Group management is a matter of course for Zeppelin.
The goal we have set ourselves is to continuously optimize our entrepreneurial activities as well as our products and services in terms of sustainability. We also expect this holistic approach from our suppliers and service providers.
For this reason, we have initiated a joint Code of Conduct. These guidelines, principles and requirements apply as the basis for cooperation
Reporting violations
We require all of our employees and managers to conduct themselves in a manner that complies with regulations and is ethically flawless in all business situations. Because violation of such values contradicts our own ethical standard and as such can endanger economic success and the safety of our employees, it is important that we identify possible misconduct at an early stage rather than turning a blind eye.
Each individual employee, as well as each of our business partners, can contribute to safeguarding the trust that we have accrued in our company journey. That means not only complying with regulations, but also promptly identifying violations, reporting them, and putting a stop to any compromising situations.
Zeppelin provides various confidential options for reporting: You can get in touch with our responsible Chief Compliance Officer Mr. André Jägeler directly, as well as anonymously via the Zeppelin Trust Line whistleblower system, or by means of an external ombudsman.
André Jägeler
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
Zeppelin GmbH
Graf-Zeppelin-Platz 1
85748 Garching near Munich
Dr. Karl Sidhu
Lawyer
SvS – Sidhu von Saucken Rechtsanwälte
Widenmayerstraße 36
80538 Munich
Zeppelin Trust Line
Zeppelin Trust Line is the online whistleblower system for the Zeppelin Group. It is available to all employees, business partners, and customers. The system can be used for whistleblowing purposes; in other words, for submitting messages relating to serious breaches of our values, compliance specifications, and applicable law.
Zeppelin Trust Line functions as an electronic mailbox, via which reports can be made round the clock. The most important difference between the various contact options is that using Zeppelin Trust Line means that the whistleblower can be assured of anonymity. The electronic platform is hosted on an external server, so it is not possible to trace submitted information back to the source.
Forum Compliance Mittelstand
Zeppelin GmbH represents Zeppelin Group as a member of the Forum Compliance Mittelstand. Adhering to the company’s internal compliance rules is a binding requirement for all our employees. It is a vital part of ensuring our company’s long-term success and is a requirement in every business situation, which we aim to take into greater consideration and further develop as a member of the FCM.
The Forum Compliance Mittelstand (FCM) is a voluntary association of small- and mid-sized enterprises and associations that serves to promote and spread a value-driven way of doing business among companies of a similar size. The FCM takes the specific features of SMEs as a starting point and exploits the opportunity to develop and spread practically relevant solutions, concepts, and methods for SMEs. The FCM works at the intersection of business, ethics, and compliance, and fosters dialog between research and practice.
It organizes regular meetings for its members, where they discuss current issues and challenges as part of presentations and panel discussions. The ongoing aim of the FCM is to conduct research projects into compliance management for SMEs and in doing so to actively foster dialog between researchers and the world of business
At Zeppelin, we are keen to use this as a chance to help set the benchmark for dealing with business ethics and compliance in German SMEs.
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