M anagement ReportCompliance
The Tokyo Electron Group is determined to carry out sound business activities in accordance with its corporate ethics andcompliance with the law.

■ Approach to Corporate Ethics and Legal Compliance■ Protection of Personal Information

Trust is and will always be the lifeline of the Tokyo Electron Group. The

Leakage of personal information has become a social concern infundamental requirements for maintaining trust are rigorous confor-

recent years and companies are required to manage the personal

mity to our ethical standards and compliance with the law, by ourinformation they hold in an appropriate manner. In Japan following

employees as individuals, and by each of our organizations. We give firstenactment of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information inpriority to compliance with high ethical standards and laws in con-April 2005, the Tokyo Electron Group formulated its basic policies andducting our business operations.

rules on the protection of personal information. We educate employeeson the implementation of policies and rules, endeavoring to make

■ Establishing Ethical Standards

them more aware of these policies and rules. Furthermore, in Japan we

We believe that common standards must be applied throughout our divi-investigated personal information stored on approximately 11,000

sions in order to create the globally excellent company that we envision.

PCs leased to employees and created a ledger of personal information

In 1998 we established a Code of Ethics, which concretely describes ourto be managed by each Group company and department. Also, webasic views. At the same time, we established the Ethics Committee as

installed servers to be used exclusively for storing personal informationan organization for actual operations.

and prohibited employees from storing important personal information on their PCs. In addition, we added some rules to the guidelines on■ Measures to Strengthen the Compliance Systemenhanced safety measures for the protection of personal information.
TheThese rules include those on the management of particularly important

Regulations, which provide for basic matters concerning compliance

personal information, such as information about business partners,

based on the Code of Ethics, are designed to help those engaged in thepersonnel-related information, and general affairs-related information, as

business operations of the Tokyo Electron Group understand fully the rel-well as rules on the use of cell phones.

Weestablished

ourCompliance

Regulationsin2004.

evant laws, regulations, and international rules as well as in-houserules and act accordingly at all times.
In 2005, we conducted an awareness survey on our Code ofEthics and compliance measures targeting approximately 9,000
employees from both our domestic and overseas Group companies.
Based on the survey results and according to the Whistleblower
Protection Act of Japan enacted in 2006, we revised the Compliance
Regulations to make our hotline (system for reporting noncompliancewith the Code of Ethics and laws) more effective, including the prohibition of disadvantageous treatment of whistleblowers, protection of privacy in the process of handling noncompliance reports, and ensuring confidentiality.

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