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Core Values & Ethics

Our conduct is based on integrity, responsibility, and respect for others. Our first principle is to observe the laws and rules applying to our activities - at all times and in all circumstances.

Under no circumstances may a Board Member or an employee cause concerns to be raised about the integrity, impartiality, or reputation of SUEZ, including conduct that would lead to questioning the sincerity of SUEZ's ethics.

SUEZ recognizes its particular responsibilities toward:

Our Core Values
Act Professionally
We are deeply committed to finding the best solutions for our customer's needs.

Perform as a Partner
We seek to maintain trusting, long-lasting partnerships with our customers and partners.

Cultivate Team Spirit
We strive to be entrepreneurial, innovative, and creative, developing exchange of knowledge and expertise throughout the organization.

Create Value
We strive to improve profitability and financial strength.

Respect the Environment
We seek to contribute to sustainable improvements in the quality of life.

Behave Ethically
We are committed to transparency and accountability in all our practices, and to fostering mutual respect with the communities in which we operate, as well as with our customers, our partners and our colleagues.

SUEZ and its customers
We endeavor to respond to customer expectations by:
  • Maintaining an open dialogue based upon complete and truthful information,
  • Ensuring our procedures are transparent,
  • Honoring our commitments,
  • Respecting the rules of fair play,
  • Seeking constant improvement in service quality, including services that protect customer health and safety,

SUEZ and its shareholders
SUEZ applies high corporate governance standards with, among others, the objective of optimizing shareholder value through capital growth and return on investment.

We strive to respect financial market regulations as established by regulatory authorities, ensure equal treatment for all shareholders, and provide financial information that is accurate, truthful, and verifiable.

SUEZ and its people
The growth of SUEZ depends upon the quality of its people. Consequently, a particular effort is made to nurture convivial workplace relations by:
  • Assessing employees above all on the basis of their skills, and respecting their diversity and their personal lives,
  • Encouraging their professional and personal development,
  • Developing an open and constructive dialogue between employees based on mutual confidence,
  • Protecting the health and safety of our employees, and
  • Rewarding team spirit and employee involvement in the life of the Group, in particular by keeping personnel informed of Group objectives and challenges.

SUEZ and its suppliers
We consider quality to be the premium value when selecting suppliers. We commit to entertain relations that are fair, open and straightforward, and to respect the terms of our contracts with them.

SUEZ encourages its commercial partners, subcontractors and suppliers to adopt rules governing ethical, environmental and social conduct, and to respect the related SUEZ documents.

SUEZ and its subsidiaries We are committed to ensure that SUEZ maintains open, clear, and well-balanced relations with subsidiaries, investment partners and minority shareholders.

Locally, subsidiaries adopt procedures that make it possible to achieve the principles of the present charter and to satisfy its requirements.

SUEZ and its competition
We faithfully respect the market's operating rules:
  • We are committed to observing the rules of fair play.
  • We are fair in our dealings with the competition and do not use defamatory language in reference to them.
  • We protect our confidential information and our trade secrets.
  • We use only legal and above-board means to obtain information on our competition.

SUEZ and the community
By the nature of our activities, SUEZ operates at the very heart of communities where we are active. We have an obligation to consider the interests of those communities. As permitted by law, we participate in works of community interest, philanthropy, and sponsorship.

We comply with all legislation that regulates funding of political parties or candidates to elected office. Where there is no legislation or regulation covering this topic, we refrain from any financing of political activity.

SUEZ and the environment
We acknowledge our particular responsibility to present and future generations for protecting the environment. We set our objectives in accordance with the principles of sustainable development and make our results public.



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