The Fujikura Group is working to implement the Corporate Philosophy MVCV (Mission, Vision and Core Value) to be a corporate group that is appreciated by customers and highly evaluated by society. To ensure compliance, the Group established the Fujikura Code of Conduct on October 1, 2002. In line with this Code and other in-house rules, as well as with laws, regulations, norms, and rules enforced in Japan and abroad, all directors and employees of the Group are striving to make the Group a corporate entity that is trusted and needed by society, giving first priority to compliance, occupational health and safety, the environment, and ties with local communities.

Fujikura's president acts as risk management committee chairman, while said committee regulates the Fujikura group for compliance with rules and regulations by all employees and others involved in Fujikura's work. We undertake top management guidance for education and other measures to ensure compliance, along with the clarification of problems and sharing of information planned by the corporate section.

Promotion System

Readily Available Portable Leaflets
The Group created and distributed palm-sized leaflets of the "Fujikura Group Compliance Code of Conduct" as a tool to enhance and maintain awareness for compliance among employees. By integrating this leaflet with a portable brochure "Management Philosophy MVCV", we can use it at any time, check it on our own, or use it for chanting it within the department.

The content of the leaflet declares that officers and employees will protect the "antitrust law compliance program" and "anti-corruption policy".

Compliance-related international initiatives include conventions, norms, and various other measures. The Fujikura Group CSR Committee is working to ensure compliance, including preventing corruption, in reference to the following international guidelines.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors held on September 28, 2009, participants passed a resolution on the Fujikura Antimonopoly Act Compliance Program with a view to ensuring compliance with the law through the announcement by the President of the company's commitment to compliance and also through the provision of relevant instructions to all directors and employees as well as through the enhancement of our in-house compliance system.

With the of globalization of business, the destabilization of international affairs from regional conflicts, and the increasing complexity of free trade agreements, the importance of rigorously secured trade control (export management) is rising. From the standpoint of compliance and CSR, the entire Fujikura group works on export security control and provision of technology to foreign nations according to our general export management guidelines and in conjunction with the world community.

On the international front, security problems such as nuclear and missile issues in Iran and North Korea, and the terrorist activity in the Middle East, Africa, etc. are emerging as serious international concerns. When Japanese companies export their products for consumer use overseas, they need to ensure that none of these products will be used to create nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, missiles to transport these weapons, or other weapons of mass destruction, in order to preserve international peace and safety.

The Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan regulates the export of not only weapons but also consumer products and technologies that could be used for military purposes, with a view to maintaining international peace and security. The Act also requires exporters to meet the export criteria set by the Japanese government. In order to maintain peace, order and security of the international community in the progress of globalization, companies are thus strongly required to strictly control the export and provision of their products and technologies that could be used for military purposes.

Fujikura has set the in-house export control rules, based on which it makes necessary judgment on products to be exported and technologies to be provided*, checks its dealings with customers, notifies employees of any revisions to the related laws and regulations, provides them with training on export control, and also carries out internal audits for export control. Under this system, we promote voluntary export control and ensure legal compliance. For export control, we make necessary judgments about our products and confirm their intended usage with the users. We also pay due attention to the shipment of equipment to the plants of overseas Group companies to ensure that no export-regulated items are included in the shipment. We obtain export permits for the equipment as necessary. Security Export Administrative Division conducted workshops and e-learning training for employees. We also dispatched personnel to Group companies in Japan and abroad to raise their employees' awareness of export control and give relevant instructions, thereby promoting compliance awareness across the Group.

*Specifically, judgments are made on whether the goods to be exported and technologies (including programs) to be provided are subject to export regulation or not.

The Fujikura Group Anti-Corruption Policy was approved by the Board of Directors and the Managing Directors Meeting and was established on April 1, 2014. The Fujikura Group disseminates information on this policy in the group. This policy also regulates compliance in the supply chain.

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*This policy also concerns corruption prevention.

Following a decision made by its CSR Committee (Management Committee) in July 2013, Fujikura Ltd. announced its support for the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), which outlines the universal and international principles on human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Subsequently, on September 3, 2013, the company became a signatory to the Global Compact and also joined the Global Compact Network Japan (GC-NJ). The UNGC, which is based on 10 principles, provides a global framework for companies and other organizations to act as good corporate citizens for the creation of a sustainable society by displaying leadership in a responsible manner. Under this framework, Fujikura carried out associated activities in FY2016.