Compliance

Respect, integrity, and responsibility – these are values ​​that we live by in our daily interactions at Haufe Group and consider to be part of our corporate culture. This applies to our employees, as well as to our customers and business partners.

Compliance as part of
our corporate culture

With a comprehensive compliance management system and various compliance measures, we ensure that legal regulations, internal guidelines, and ethical standards are collectively upheld and consistently followed. Our managers play a special role in this: They provide guidance, promote compliance with rules, and contribute to the effective implementation of legal requirements and internal regulations within their areas of responsibility. This protects us, our customers, and our partners from risks or resulting damage. Because economic success and responsibility toward people and the environment are two goals of our company that cannot be separated.

Our compliance measures

Our Code of Conduct for Employees is the foundation of our value system. It brings together all basic regulations, norms, and behaviors of Haufe Group and shapes our way of interacting with each other responsibly.

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Our Code of Conduct for Business Partners determines all the important ethical, ecological, and social standards for a successful collaboration built on trust. It creates a shared foundation for transparent business relations, sustainable growth, and a partnership that relies on mutual respect and shared responsibility.

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We want to empower our employees to do the right thing every day. Therefore they participate in regular training on how to follow compliance rules. By creating sustainable awareness of personal responsibility and of the necessity to observe compliance regulations, we effectively minimize the risk of compliance violations.

Violations of legal requirements and internal guidelines pose a risk of significant harm to Haufe Group. Substantiated reports of potential misconduct or violations help us address these issues early on and minimize harm to Haufe Group, our employees, and our business partners.

An anonymous whistleblower system is therefore available to our employees, customers, business partners, and other third parties. Reports received are taken seriously and treated confidentially – the individuals responsible for managing these reports are independent, not subject to instructions from others, and bound by a duty of confidentiality.

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Contact Compliance Team

Haufe Group SE
Abteilung Governance, Risk & Compliance
Tel.: 0761 898 0
Email: compliance@haufegroup.com

FAQ

Essentially, a compliance management system (CMS) comprises the regulations, processes and measures that a company defines to ensure conformity with laws, standards and company-specific rules. We are guided by the CMS reference definitions in ISO 19600:2014 and IDW PS 980.

Haufe Group’s compliance management system has three core principles: prevent, detect, and react. Our measures include guidelines and procedures, assessment and reduction of compliance risks, training and communication, advice and support, integration of compliance into operational processes, documentation and monitoring, and compliance auditing and investigation.

Our compliance management system encompasses covers six areas: ethics, labor law, anti-corruption, antitrust legislation, contracts, data protection and IT security.

The Legal + Compliance department at Haufe Group is an executive department and thus reports directly to the board. For data protection and IT security, the company relies on cross-departmental cooperation.

The compliance system supports the company, its employees and business partners with processes and methods that aim to safeguard legal compliance and integrity when conducting business. Haufe Group introduced its own voluntary compliance standards, being a pioneer among standards medium-sized companies.

For us and for others:
Haufe Compliance College

We want to empower people in companies to succeed. This also applies to compliance with regulations. And that’s why we create solutions: Learn all about the Compliance College here—the comprehensive digital solution for compliance training from Haufe Akademie.

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