Teixeira Duarte Group Code of Ethics and Conduct

EXTENDED TO ALL ENTITIES AND ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE GROUP

At its meeting of February 5, 2018, the Board of Directors of Teixeira Duarte, S.A. approved the new “Code of Ethics and Conduct of the Teixeira Duarte Group”.

See the “Code of Ethics and Conduct of the Teixeira Duarte Group”here.

The Code enshrines the mission and values that define Teixeira Duarte’s Ethics and establishes rules that reinforce, develop or complement them, thus defining the Conduct of all those to whom it is addressed.

Which entities does it apply to?

This new updated version of the Code is applicable to Teixeira Duarte, S.A. itself and extends to all the entities included in its consolidation perimeter and management scope, in all the countries in which the Group operates.

Which people does it apply to?

The Code is intended for all the Company’s Directors, Employees and Other Representatives, and it is additionally the responsibility of all these employees not only to know and internalize, institutionally implement and externally defend the Code, but also to promote the application of the respective rules by third parties within the scope and execution of the relationships they maintain with any entities of the Teixeira Duarte Group.

Reporting any irregularities

Any irregularities identified in relation to any external or internal regulations should be reported through the following means:

  • Correspondence addressed to the management or supervisory body of the Teixeira Duarte Group Company in which the irregularities in question have been verified;
  • Correspondence addressed to the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board of Teixeira Duarte, S.A.;
  • E-mail message addressed to an independent body set up within the Teixeira Duarte Group whose address is compliance@teixeiraduarte.pt.

Each Group Company guarantees the confidentiality of the communications received, the absence of any reprisals to whistleblowers for reports made in good faith and the protection of the personal data of the whistleblower and the suspected perpetrator. Reprisals against whistleblowers are condemned by Teixeira Duarte, S.A. and all Group companies and may give rise to disciplinary proceedings against the perpetrators and the people who allowed these reprisals.