Ethics and anti-corruption

Anti-corruption policy

Naval Group places ethics at the heart of its practices and strives to promote a culture of integrity. This commitment takes the form of the implementation and deployment of an anti-corruption policy aimed at all of the group’s stakeholders. The policy complies strictly with the requirements of the applicable legislation (in accordance with the French law of 9 December 2016 on transparency, anti-corruption and economic modernisation and known as the “Sapin II” law) and applies to all employees attached to Naval Group SA or any of its controlled companies.

Culture of integrity: shared vision and practices

The culture of integrity promoted by Naval Group is based on a repository of documents available to all employees, in all of the languages they use. It brings together policies, codes, instructions and guidelines that apply zero tolerance to any breach of the principles they establish. This culture is also founded on the full and unreserved involvement of the company's management and governance bodies and on the example they set, and is therefore directly borne by the group's Chairman and CEO.

Vigilance and prevention 

Naval Group draws up and regularly updates a corruption and influence peddling risk map designed to identify, analyse and prioritise the corruption risks to which it is exposed, and accompanied by an action plan to reduce the identified risks.

This mapping process enables us to deploy a training and awareness-raising plan for all Naval Group employees (in France and abroad), in particular those most exposed to corruption risk, but also – whenever possible – for our external stakeholders.

Concrete, rigorous measures

On a daily basis, the group ensures that:

• gifts, meals and hospitality are declared whenever they are given to or received by persons from outside Naval Group, in accordance with pre-defined thresholds;
• membership of non-profit organisations and sponsorship/patronage activities performed in the name of Naval Group are vetted in advance;
• its business practices outside France always comply with the applicable local anti-corruption regulations and with the accounting procedures in force within the group;
• due diligence compliance checks have been performed on contracts and agreements entered into with third parties (in particular business advisers, industrial and strategic partners, offset suppliers and lobbyists or representatives of interest groups);
• its decisions are free of any conflict of interest, particularly as regards the recruitment of new employees, the choice of new business partners, or the selection of new suppliers.
• their actions concerning the representation of interests are recorded in the digital register of the HATVP (High Authorities for transparency in public life). 

For more information, please consult our document repository available for download on the site.