Corporate Compliance

Scheidt & Bachmann is aware of its responsibility to ensure the compliant behavior of its employees in every respect. To this end, we encourage our employees, our customers and our suppliers in case of any suspected violation of the law, as, for example:

• suspected corruption or bribery
• suspected anti-competitive practices
• suspected misuse of data or incomplete data security,

to trustfully contact the Reporting Office of the Scheidt & Bachmann Group.

Reporting Office of the Scheidt & Bachmann Group

To fulfil legal requirements¹ , the Scheidt & Bachmann Group has established an internal Reporting Office for whistleblowers and complaints.

You can contact the Reporting Office if, for example, you are in direct contact with a Scheidt & Bachmann company and wish to report misconduct or to report human rights and environmental risks or violations of human rights or environmental obligations by a supplier or business unit of the Scheidt & Bachmann Group.

You can submit reports by telephone (+49 173 8928511), by e-mail (whistleblower@scheidt-bachmann.com) or in writing (Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH, Corporate Compliance, Whistleblower Reporting Office, Breite Straße 132, 41238 Mönchengladbach, Germany). We gladly enable to talk to you in person. Let us know this by e-mail or telephone.

The Scheidt & Bachmann Group Reporting Office maintains the confidentiality of identity

• of the person making the reference,
• the persons who are the subject of a notification and
• the other persons named in the notification.

In accordance with the need-to-know principle, identities and information are only disclosed to those persons who are responsible for receiving reports or for taking any follow-up measures. All persons involved in the process are subject to confidentiality.

¹Legal basis

In accordance with DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1937 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and, deriving from this, the applicable European national legislation (in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 31 May 2023 ("HinSchG")), the establishment of a Reporting Office for the protection of whistleblowers is required.