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speakers from a law firm since May 2010. Invitations to the
The compliance management system (CMS) of KELAG and training sessions are extended to the respective level of
its subsidiaries has been implemented since 2010. This management that is responsible for sending employees in
system ensures that the probability of legal infringements their areas on training. In the reporting year, the training
by employees of the Group is kept as low as possible. It thus format was changed to e-learning to give employees more
serves to protect both the company as well as every flexibility. In total, 89 employees participated in compliance
individual employee, while making a contribution to training – 11 persons thereof participated in e-learning on
safeguarding the business value in the long term. The CMS the topic of anti-trust law and 20 persons on the topic of
of KELAG and its subsidiaries (KI-KELAG International preventing corruption, managers being around 50 % of this
GmbH, KNG-Kärnten Netz GmbH and KELAG Energie & key personnel. Top management received personal training
Wärme GmbH) is designed to promote a greater awareness on a separate occasion.
among employees and managers of legal risks and has GRI 205-2
been certified since 2014 in accordance with ONR 192050
in the risk areas of anti-corruption law, data protection
legislation, anti-trust law, unfair competition, Austrian The code of conduct applies uniformly for KELAG. Foreign
Federal Act Against Unfair Competition (UWG) and subsidiaries can take into account national particularities in
procurement law. In the course of the annual surveillance implementing the code of conduct if and insofar as the
audit performed by the independent certification body basic principles of the group-wide code of conduct are not
Austrian Standards, certification in accordance with the compromised. Through its action, KELAG aims to promote
international standard ISO 19600 was also obtained for the the further diffusion of the principles established in the
first time at the end of 2016. The standard is intended to code of conduct. The companies with which KELAG has a
help managers and employees maintain compliant business relationship are therefore encouraged to abide by
behaviour. Further objectives include the evaluation of the the guidelines of the KELAG code of conduct. If, in the
effectiveness of compliance measures and the course of such business relationships, the code of conduct
communication of these as well as ongoing process conflicts with another company’s ethics policies, the
improvement. company will do its best to find a mutually acceptable
GRI 103-1, 103-3, 102-17 solution. The code of conduct is the basis for further
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company guidelines which can take into account both
industry-specific and country-specific particularities.
GRI 102-16, 102-17
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addressing compliance officers directly and, if necessary,
anonymously in case of legal infringements by decision-
The efficiency of the KELAG compliance management
makers was introduced throughout the Group. Any
system was proven again in the financial year 2019, there
information obtained by the compliance officers in this way
being no cases of corruption, legal actions for anti-
must be treated with the requisite care and confidentiality.
competitive behaviour, non-compliance with
Preventive measures are, however, the focus of the CMS. In
environmental laws or violations in connection with
light of this, compliance work focuses on training and
marketing and communications or socio-economic
presentations as well as individual consultation and
violations.
information on specific issues, where necessary. Group
compliance training has been conducted annually by GRI 205-3, 206-1, 307-1, 417-3, 419-1