Our compliance culture

Prevent – Detect – Respond: these are the principles of MTU’s compliance program, with the focus firmly on prevention. MTU has established a Group-wide, risk-based compliance organization with clearly defined processes, rules, responsibilities and points of contact.

Experts from different areas of controlling work together to prevent misconduct across all levels and to resolve any breaches of the rules. For instance, it is the Compliance Officer’s job to advise and educate MTU employees, coordinate internal investigations, prepare and perform compliance reviews, and keep MTU’s compliance system up to date.

The pillars of a genuine culture of compliance at MTU are communication, resolution, and employee education. We provide our employees with regular training on the MTU Code of Conduct as well as on special topics relevant to compliance such as antitrust and competition law, export control, data protection, work safety and environmental protection. Our specialized compliance teams function as confidential points of contact for our employees, and are on hand to provide them with competent advice on all legal and ethical matters.

Our managers shoulder an additional level of responsibility. Accordingly, we teach them how to align their conduct to the values of our corporate culture and lead by example. In this way, we promote a culture in which employees and management identify themselves with their responsibility to uphold statutory regulations as well as our Group-wide Code of Conduct.