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Ethical standards for Deutsche Post DHL Group’s suppliers

Deutsche Post DHL Group has engrained sustainability into the company’s Strategy 2025 vision as the Group strives to be the Employer, Provider, and Investment of Choice – in a sustainable way. The Group is fully aware that its responsibility to ensure sustainable behavior extends to its supplier base. Thus, we have given ourselves a strict set of ethical standards to guide us in our business practices.

We expect all of our suppliers, including subcontractors, i.e. all companies who do business with any company or division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, to adhere to the same ethical standards. For this purpose, the Group has produced this Supplier Code of Conduct (SCoC), which sets the minimum standards for doing business with any Group company or Business Unit. We encourage our suppliers to become certified suppliers by taking the Interactive SCoC training.

You can download the Deutsche Post DHL Group Supplier Code of Conduct as a PDF file. You can choose between the English and several other language versions below.

2020 versions of the Supplier Code of Conduct

Contents

  • The supplier shall comply with all laws applicable to its business. The supplier should support the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the 1998 International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, in accordance with national law and practice. This especially applies to:

    • Child Labor: The supplier employs no children under the age of 15. If national laws or regulations allow children between the ages of 13 and 15 to perform light work, such work is not permitted in any case if it would hinder a minor from the completion of compulsory schooling or training, or if the employment would be harmful to their health or development (reference: ILO Convention 138(7)).
    • Forced Labor: The supplier shall make no use of forced or compulsory labor.
    • Compensation and Working Hours: The supplier shall comply with the respective national laws and regulations regarding working hours, wages and benefits.
    • Discrimination: The supplier does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender.

  • We expect our suppliers to strive to implement the standards of occupational health and safety at a high level.

    The supplier complies with applicable occupational health and safety regulations and provides a work environment that is safe and conducive to good health, in order to preserve the health of employees and prevent accidents, injuries and work-related illnesses.

  • The supplier shall be prepared for any disruptions of its business (e.g., natural disasters, terrorism, software viruses, illness, pandemic, infectious diseases). This preparedness especially includes disaster plans to protect both employees as well as the environment as far as possible from the effects of possible disasters that arise within the domain of operations.

  • The supplier shall comply with international anti-bribery standards as stated in the United Nations Global Compact as well as local anti-corruption and bribery laws. In particular, the supplier may not offer services, gifts or benefits to Deutsche Post DHL Group employees in order to influence employee conduct in representing Deutsche Post DHL Group.

  • The supplier shall comply with all applicable environmental laws, regulations and standards as well as implement an effective system to identify and eliminate potential hazards to the environment.

    We expect our business partners to strive to support Deutsche Post DHL Group's climate protection goals through the products and services they deliver (e.g. by providing relevant data on climate protection). In this regard, we also expect our suppliers to take climate protection appropriately into account in their own operations, for example by setting climate protection goals for themselves and achieving them.

  • The supplier shall communicate the principles stated in the Code and detailed above to its subcontractors and other business partners who are involved in supplying the products and services described in the main contract. The supplier shall motivate such parties to adhere to the same standards.

  • Deutsche Post DHL Group reserves the right, upon reasonable notice, to check compliance with the requirements of the Supplier Code of Conduct. Deutsche Post DHL Group encourages its suppliers to implement their own binding guidelines for ethical behavior.

    The supplier encourages its suppliers to adhere to the ethical standards, human rights, health and safety standards and environmental standards upon which this agreement is based, as part of fulfilling their contractual obligations.Any breach of the obligations stipulated in this Supplier Code of Conduct is considered a material breach of contract by the supplier.

Supplier Code of Conduct overview