Offering or granting improper advantages of any kind in business contact to employees of public bodies or private business partners; requesting or accepting improper advantages by taking advantage of one's official position.

Unlawful agreements with competitors or business partners on prices, pricing, market, customer or territory allocation, on orders, production quantities and quotas, strategies, boycotting, etc. This also includes agreements in public tenders and awards as well as the exchange of information in violation of antitrust law.

Includes all aspects of accounting, particularly bookkeeping and accounting, financial statement auditing, internal accounting controls or financial statement auditing, for example, misstatements of revenue, finances, inventories, expenses, fixed assets, unlawful cash, book or bank transactions, intentional misrepresentation of financially relevant information, improper influence on accounting transactions or doubts about the independence of external or internal auditors, tax evasion, misstatements of income or assets.

Disclosure to unauthorized third parties of confidential information that has become known to an employee in the course of employment; business decisions made by employees on the basis of personal interests and against the interests of the company.

Obtaining other people's money or property by deception; falsifying documents such as invoices or contracts; misusing company assets in breach of duty to the detriment of the Hessing Group of Companies (for example, creating unregistered cash or accounts).

Unauthorized taking away of another's property in order to use it oneself or to give it to someone else.

Any other criminal or disorderly conduct by employees in connection with their work for the Hessing Group of Companies, such as. Money laundering, data privacy violations, tax violations as well as radiation safety regulations, product safety issues, in particular medical device and drug laws, discrimination, harassment or inappropriate behavior toward others based on ethnic origin, culture, religion, age, disability, skin color, gender, sexual identity and orientation or world view, environmental violations, violations of supply chain regulations, intentional submission of false compliance reports and retaliation against employees who, to the best of their knowledge, have reported suspected compliance violations.