INTEGRITY MEASURES POLICY

11. Background
The United Nations Global Compact is a voluntary initiative that seeks to advance
universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption
through the active engagement of the corporate community, in cooperation with civilsociety and representatives of organized labour. The initiative is not designed, nordoes it have the mandate or resources, to monitor or measure participants’performance. Nevertheless, with the aim of assuring that the integrity of the UN
Global Compact is safeguarded at all times, the Secretary-General has adopted thefollowing measures.
2. Misuse of Association with the UN and/or UN Global Compact
The use of the United Nations name and emblem and any abbreviation thereof isreserved for official purposes of the Organization in accordance with General
Assembly resolution 92(I) of 7 December 1946. That resolution expressly prohibits
the use of the United Nations name and emblem for commercial purposes or in any
other manner without the prior authorization of the Secretary-General, andrecommends that Member States take the necessary measures to prevent theunauthorized use thereof.
The United Nations emblem may be authorized for use by non-UN entities inexceptional circumstances, such as for illustrative and educational purposes. All usesof the UN emblem by non-UN entities require the prior written authorization of theSecretary-General. Requests for such authorization should be submitted to the Officeof Legal Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY 10017 or Fax: +1-212-963-3155. Any
suspected misuse of the UN name or emblem similarly should be referred to theOffice of Legal Affairs.
The use of the UN Global Compact’s name and logos are limited to certain authorizedusers and instances only. The full logo policy is available on the UN Global Compact
website and should be consulted1; questions should be addressed to the UN GlobalCompact Office. The UN Global Compact Office reserves the right to take appropriate
action in the event of a breach of this policy. Possible actions may include, but are
not limited to, delisting a participant, requesting the assistance of the relevant UN
Global Compact governmental authorities and/or instituting legal proceedings. Any
suspected misuse of the UN Global Compact name or logos should be referred to theUN Global Compact Office.
3. Failure to Communicate Progress
To remain an active participant of the UN Global Compact, each entity must fulfil theinitiative’s reporting requirement detailing its efforts to implement the Ten Principles.
Business participants are required to submit an annual Communication on Progress(“CoP”).
As of March 2024, the CoP consists of a statement by the highest level executive ofcontinued support for the UN Global Compact and the completion of a digitalquestionnaire on corporate actions related to the Ten Principles and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) (preferred option) or the submission of a sustainability
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Logo policy available at https://www.unglobalcompact.org/participation/getting-started/brand-guidelines.

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report (alternative option). Non-business participants are required to submit abiennial Communication on Engagement (“CoE”), a report that discloses specificactivities adopted in support of the UN Global Compact. Please refer to the 2024 CoP
Policy and the CoE Policy for more information.
The initiative fosters transparency and enables stakeholders to hold participants
accountable to their commitment to the Ten Principles by making the CoP/CoE
publicly available on the UN Global Compact website under the participant’s profile.
As of March 2024, business participants are required to submit their CoP between 1
April and 31 July of each calendar year. Failure to submit the CoP and respond to all
mandatory questions in the CoP or submit a sustainability report within thesubmission period will change the participant’s status from “active” to“non-communicating” on the UN Global Compact website. Non-communicating
participants can become active participants by submitting a complete CoP by 31
December of the same calendar year. However, if a complete CoP is not submitted bythis date, the participant will be delisted from the initiative for “failure tocommunicate progress” and this will be reflected on the UN Global Compact website
in accordance with the Delisting and Rejoining Policy.
Participants in non-business categories will be required to submit a CoE biennially.
Failure to do so will change their status to “non-communicating” on the UN Global
Compact website and subsequently to be delisted for “failure to communicateprogress” if no CoE is submitted within a year.
Companies and non-business entities that have been delisted can apply to rejoin theinitiative and their application must be accompanied by an updated CoP/CoE, inaddition to other requirements outlined in the Delisting and Rejoining Policy.

4. Allegations of Systematic or Egregious Abuses
The UN Global Compact welcomes any participant that pledges to work towards
implementation of the UN Global Compact Ten Principles through learning, dialogue,projects, process improvements or other such measures. Moreover, it is not now anddoes not aspire to become a compliance based initiative. Nevertheless, safeguarding
the reputation, integrity and good efforts of the UN Global Compact and its
participants requires transparent means to handle credible allegations of systematicor egregious abuse of the UN Global Compact’s overall aims and principles. The UN
Global Compact Office can assist or provide guidance in this regard, by means of themeasures described below. The purpose of these measures in the first instancealways will be to promote continuous quality improvement and assist participants inaligning their actions with the commitments they have undertaken with regard to theGlobal Compact Ten Principles. It should be noted that the UN Global Compact Officewill not involve itself in any way in any claims of a legal nature that a party may haveagainst a participating company or vice versa. Similarly, the measures set out below
are not intended to affect, pre-empt or substitute for other regulatory or legal
procedures or proceedings in any jurisdiction.
Thus, when a matter is either presented in writing to the Global Compact Office or israised by the Global Compact Office or a Local Network (active or advanced in statusonly), the Office will:3

a. (In the case of matters raised by third parties) use its judgement to filter out
prima facie frivolous allegations. If a matter is found to be prima facie frivolous, theparty raising the matter will be so informed and no further action will be taken on thematter by the Global Compact Office. For courtesy reasons, the matter will
nevertheless be shared with the company concerned if it is a Global Compact
participant.
b. If an allegation of systematic or egregious abuse is found not to be prima facie
frivolous or if it is raised by the Global Compact or a Local Network, the Global
Compact Office or Local Network will contact the participating company concerned,requestingi.
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written comments, which should be submitted directly to the party raising thematter, with a copy to the Global Compact Office or the Local Network (if thematter is raised by the Local Network), andthat the Global Compact Office or the Local Network (if the matter is raised bythe Local Network) be kept informed of any actions taken by the participatingcompany to address the situation which is the subject matter of theallegation. If the matter was raised by a third party, the Global Compact
Office will inform the party raising the matter of the above-described actions
taken by the Global Compact Office.

c. The Global Compact Office would be available to provide guidance and assistance,as necessary and appropriate, to the participating company concerned, in taking
actions to remedy the situation that is the subject of the matter raised in order toalign the actions of the company with its commitments to the Global Compact
principles.
The Global Compact Office may, in its sole discretion, take one or more of thefollowing steps, as appropriate:i.
Use its own good offices to encourage resolution of the matter;ii.
Ask the relevant country/regional Global Compact Network, or other Global
Compact participant organization, to assist with the resolution of the matter;iii.
Refer the matter to one or more of the UN entities that are the guardians of
the Global Compact principles for advice, assistance or action;iv.
Share with the parties information about the specific instance procedures of
the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and, in the case of mattersrelating to the labour principles, the interpretation procedure under the ILO
Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises andSocial Policy;v.
Refer the matter to the Global Compact Board, drawing in particular on theexpertise and recommendations of its business members;vi.
As a last resort, after consultation with the Global Compact Board, in cases
where the alleged abuse is admitted by an authorized company representative
or is the subject of a finding of guilt by a competent court or other body, andmeets the criteria in the FAQs of a systematic or egregious abuse, delist thecompany from the UN Global Compact.
The Global Compact Office or a Local Network should only proactively raise a matter
under the dialogue facilitation process where there has been an admission by anauthorized company representative or a finding of guilt by a competent court orother body relating to a matter that meets the definition of systematic or egregious4

as set out in the Integrity Measures Policy and FAQs. However, this does not preclude
either the Global Compact Office or a Local Network raising a matter of concern
informally with a company outside the scope of the dialogue facilitation procedure.
Where a Local Network wishes to raise a matter with a company based in anothercountry that has a Local Network, it must first discuss the matter with that otherLocal Network and the Global Compact Office.
If the participating company concerned refuses to engage in dialogue on the matterwithin two months2 of first being contacted by the Global Compact Office undersubparagraph (b) above, it may be regarded as “non-communicating”, and would beidentified as such on the Global Compact website until such time as a dialoguecommences. If, as a result of the process outlined above and/or based on the reviewof the nature of the matter submitted and the responses by the participatingcompany, the continued listing of the participating company on the Global Compact
website is considered to be detrimental to the reputation and integrity of the GlobalCompact, the Global Compact Office reserves the right to remove that company fromthe list of participants and to so indicate on the Global Compact website.
A participating company that is designated “non-communicating” or is removed fromthe list of participants will not be allowed to use the Global Compact name or logo ifsuch permission had been granted.
If the participating company concerned has subsequently taken appropriate actions
to remedy the situation that is the subject matter of the allegation, and has aligned
its actions with the commitments it has undertaken with regard to the Global
Compact principles, the company may seek reinstatement as an “active” participant
to the Global Compact and to the list of participants on the Global Compact website.
If there is a local network in the country where the company is based, the company
should first approach the local network; in all other cases the Global Compact Officeshould be contacted directly. Only the Global Compact Office can make a final
determination of reinstatement.
The Global Compact Office is committed to ensuring a fair process for the parties
involved. In order to promote the productive resolution of matters raised, no entity
involved in the process should make any public statements regarding the matter until
it is resolved or there is an admission by an authorized company representative or afinding of guilt by a competent court or other body.

These Integrity Measures will be reviewed periodically by the Global Compact Board,
the Annual Local Networks Forum and the Global Compact Leaders Summit.
Last Update: March 2024

The requisite two-month period during which a participating company must engage in dialogue withparties raising a matter was changed from three-months by decision of the Global Compact Board on 24July 2009.
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