ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
We establish the necessary ethical and transparent frame for building long and reliable relationships with the groups of interest of Vicente Trapani S.A., promoting a culture of integrity and legal fulfillment for a sustainable and competitive context.
• With our clients: In our treatment with them there is no room for any type of corruption, bribery, favoritism or any activity that is contrary to good customs or attempts against the safety of the products we market. We neither offer nor receive illegal payments, tips or bribes.
• With our stockholders: We establish the best corporative practices to provide total transparency and certainty. A good corporative goverment stregthens the stockholders’ mandate and gives the frame to a well administered company, socially responsible, efficient and profitable. We protect the fixed and intangible assets of the company and we do not use them to non-authorized ends. We maintain the confidentiality in all the industrial information, including the intellectual property.
• With our collaborators: We work so that every collaborator be respected and find a suitable space for his/her profesional and personal development. We hire our employees only by his/her qualities and capabilities; we do not hire under 18 years of age (except those allowed by law, that are the 17 years old with parental authorization). Vicente Trapani S.A. does not accept under any point of view the exercise of child labour. The treatment with our collaborators is affirmed on the golden rule of the relationships: Respect, Justice, Trust and Affection. We promote the diversity and do not allow the existence of any type of discrimination regarding age, religion, race, sex and / or sexual preference.
• With our suppliers: We carry out honest and equitative negotiations without discrimination and / or imposition of any sort. We neither offer nor receive illegal payments, tips or benefits. We always give all the necessary information so that the contests and tenders be transparent and fair. We do not work with contractors who employ in their activities child labour.
• With our competitors: We commit to compete based on price, quality and service, under a frame of integrity, respecting our competitors in every sense. Every publicity and promotion is based on the truth and fulfilling the legislation in force.
• With our government: Vicente Trapani S.A. has total respect for the laws in force in the field of exercise of the activity. We keep ourselves informed of the laws that rule our activity and make the necessary adaptations so as not to fall into any violation. This principle applies to all the areas of the business with no exception. General Commitment with the Sustainable Development. We understand that the economical development has to be in harmony with the wellfare and the social inclusion, and the assessment, conservation and care of the environment. For that, our commitment is based on the following guidelines:
• To establish a sustainable management of the processes, based on the balance among the economical, social and environmental dimensions.
• To promote the integral development of the community where we act, and contribute with the sustainable development of the region where we operate.
• To support and to respect the protection of human rights within our sphere of influence, making sure not to be partners in case of violations of these rights.
• To sponsor and facilitate actions and projects to promote the sustainability and human development.
• To apply the best practices of environmental conservation, minimizing and compensating the impact of our operations.
• To promote sensitizing and training programs, looking to raise awareness in each member of our company and along our value chain, as active agents in the building of a corporative culture compromised with the sustainability. Fulfilling with the dispositions of this Code of Ethics and Conducts, we have the satisfaction to have acted loyaly with our groups of interest in a clear and honest manner, in an environment of trust and cordiality, in the personal as well as in the professional fields. In case that a punctual and especial situation arises that is not contemplated in this code, the Direction, through its president, shall solve it based on the spirit and basic principles of this code.