Our core values of integrity, teamwork, innovation, responsibility, and execution excellence guide us in our business decisions, dealings and relationships with our stakeholders. These values, along with our principles on sustainability, helps us achieve our mission to deliver reliable, reasonable and responsible energy to our customers. We believe that our suppliers, one of the Company’s key stakeholders, have a significant role in this endeavor. By supplier, the Company means any entity that supplies goods and/or services to the Company, its wholly owned subsidiaries and controlled entities.
This Supplier Code of Conduct ensures that all of our suppliers will uphold and share the same values and sustainability principles when doing business with the Company, and adhere to our compliance, social, and environmental standards and requirements.
The Company urges its suppliers to promote the same sustainable standards and commitments expected from this Code to their respective supply chain. However, the Company still recognizes that its suppliers are independent businesses and operating in different environments. In compliance with these expectations of doing business with the Company, the Code defines the non-negotiable minimum standards that the Company requires its suppliers and their sub-tier suppliers or subcontractors, with the goal to strengthen our mutual understanding, respect, transparency, trust and partnership toward a more sustainable business.
This Code is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the provisions of any legal agreement or contract between a business partner and the Company. Suppliers must uphold high ethical standards, respect human rights, ensure fair treatment, avoid conflicts of interest, and maintain transparency. They are required to prevent child and forced labor, provide a safe work environment, protect proprietary information, and adhere to anti-bribery and anti-corruption practices, including a ban on gifts to Company employees. Suppliers must also manage environmental impact responsibly and meet quality standards, aligning with the Company’s ethical and sustainability commitments.