D.LGS. 231/2001

Legislative Decree No. 231 of 8 June 2001 concerns the ‘Regulation of the administrative liability of legal persons, companies and associations, including those without legal personality’. Associations, including corporations, can be held liable in relation to certain offences committed in their interest or to their advantage by persons belonging to top management or by employees, collaborators and external consultants and third parties. On 8 March 2022, the Shareholders’ Meeting of Matec Industries S.p.A. (hereinafter ‘the Company’) approved its Organisational, Management and Control Model pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 (hereinafter ‘the Model’) in order to meet the necessary conditions for exemption from administrative liability of the Entity, in accordance with the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 231/2001.

The Company has also adopted a Code of Ethics, which stipulates that all company activities must be carried out in compliance with the law, according to principles of seriousness, reliability, professionalism, integrity, honesty, fairness, respect and transparency, as well as respecting the interests of its external stakeholders. These principles underpin the Company’s commitment to uncompromising ethical conduct aimed at maintaining a solid and recognised reputation.

Pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, the Company has established its Supervisory Board (SB) in collegiate composition, with full and autonomous powers of initiative and control over the Company’s activities. The Supervisory Board is charged with supervising the effectiveness, updating and observance of the Model adopted by the Company and its constituent elements, in order to prevent offences from which the administrative liability of the Entity may derive.

In order for the SB itself to be able to fulfil its duties, the Company has set up an information exchange system on the basis of which employees, as well as those who cooperate in the pursuit of the Company’s purposes, are obliged to promptly inform the Supervisory Board about any violation of the Model and its constituent elements, as well as about any other aspect potentially relevant to the application of Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 (e.g. illegal or ethically incorrect situations). All communications to the Supervisory Board (reports or periodic information flows) must be made by using the specific e-mail address indicated below: odvmatec@matecindustries.com.
Should the addressees of the Model and the Code of Ethics behave in violation of the principles and rules contained therein, they will incur the disciplinary measures provided for in the 231 Sanctions System, which is an integral part of the Model itself.