Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001193125-25-027348
Chunk: 125

Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 6-K
Chunk 125
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 developments in the business and the environment in which BBVA operates and to meet the expectations of the communities in which the Group is present. This document was subsequently reviewed in July 2024 to adapt and update certain provisions to the evolution of jurisprudence and BBVA’s Internal Regulations. The Code of Conduct is regularly communicated to all BBVA employees and is published on the Bank’s website (www.bbva.com) and on the employees’ website (intranet). BBVA has an online training course on the Code of Conduct at the global level, with scope for the entire Group staff, including key staff in the financial function and new recruits. In addition, communication and dissemination campaigns for new content related to the Code of Conduct are carried out on a regular basis, also utilizing new formats and digital channels. In November 2022, in order to reinforce awareness and knowledge of the Code of Conduct among the workforce, a new corporate Code of Conduct course was published, which all BBVA employees are required to complete. This course includes, among other novelties, messages from members of Senior Management on different aspects of conduct to be taken into consideration in the daily activities of BBVA employees, demonstrating the commitment and importance that the Bank’s Senior Management attaches to maintaining a high corporate culture of compliance in the Company (“tone from the top”). The Code also establishes a Whistleblowing Channel where behaviors that deviate from the Code of Conduct or violate the law or internal regulations can be reported. The functions of the Risk and Compliance Committee include examining draft codes of ethics and conduct and their respective amendments, which have been prepared by the corresponding area of the Group, and issuing its opinion prior to the proposals that are to be made to the corporate bodies. This English version is a translation of the original in Spanish for information purposes only. In case of discrepancy the original in Spanish shall prevail.

Annual Corporate Governance Report of BBVA .129.. Additionally, BBVA has adopted a structure of Corporate Integrity Management Committees (with individual powers at the jurisdictional level). Their joint scope of action covers all the Group businesses and activities and their main function is to ensure effective application of the Code of Conduct. There is also a Corporate Integrity Management Committee, which is global in scope for the whole of BBVA. For its part, the Compliance function is entrusted by the Board of Directors with the task of promoting and supervising, independently and objectively, that the BBVA Group acts with integrity, particularly in activities that may entail a risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, or risk of