Corporate Governance

Initiatives for Compliance

The MUCC Group is conducting a wide range of measures to ensure compliance.

(1) MUCC Group's basic stance on compliance

At the MUCC Group, every single employee will conduct fair and sincere corporate activities in accordance not only with laws and regulations inside and outside the country, arrangements with customers and internal rules but also with their social conscience.

(2) Compliance promotion framework

  • The Compliance and Risk Management Committee (hereinafter the "Committee") has been established for the purpose of cross-company activities promoting compliance and risk management within the MUCC Group.
  • The Committee is chaired by the president. The vice president serves as its vice-chair. Under the Committee, there are subcommittees specializing in different fields.
  • Subordinate to the Committee, the Compliance Subcommittee plays a central role in conducting activities relating to compliance.
  • CSR representatives and CSR personnel at individual locations are members of this subcommittee. They also play a role of helping spread the measures discussed at the Committee inside the MUCC Group.

(3) Compliance promotion approaches

  1. 1Compliance education
    • We organize CSR and compliance training to increase employees understanding of the MUCC Corporate philosophy and Guiding Principles, for example, its Management Principles, Code of Conduct and Environmental Principles, and to increase their awareness of compliance. Prior to this training program, we will provide lecturer development training to CSR personnel and others to prompt individual locations to independently construct their frameworks for training and education.
    • MUCC Corporate philosophy and Guiding Principles has been made known in the Group by displaying posters and distributing portable cards.
  2. 2Guidelines for reporting compliance violations
    • We have developed guidelines for reporting compliance violations that occur in the MUCC Group. They stipulate that CSR representatives and personnel shall accurately and swiftly report any compliance violations they discover to the management team in accordance with the guidelines to seek necessary decisions and then conduct proper response actions accordingly.
  3. 3Internal reporting hotlines
    • To quickly discover and redress misconduct within the MUCC Group, we have internal reporting hotlines inside and outside the Group so that employees can directly submit reports without going through a reporting line.
    • The hotlines are ready to receive reports from MUCC Group employees and others, including officers and the employees of contractors, regarding misconduct within the MUCC Group, such as compliance violations, breaches of internal rules, corporate ethics issues, the abuse of power, sexual harassment, discrimination relating to pregnancy or leave to care for children or other family members and other human rights infringements.
    • When they receive a report, internal reporting hotline personnel will work with relevant parties to investigate the facts. If any misconduct is confirmed, we will take disciplinary action against the people who committed the misconduct and implement corrective actions to resolve the matter.
    • We also provide explanations of the internal reporting program in the CSR and compliance training programs, display posters and distribute portable cards to make the program known inside the MUCC Group and ensure that MUCC employees and others can use the internal reporting hotlines without concerns.
  4. 4Formulation of policies and rules
    • The companies in the MUCC Group, including ourselves, have formulated, and are constantly improving, policies and rules for promoting compliance.

Promoting Risk Management Activities

The MUCC Group has constructed the risk management framework described below to engage in risk management activities at its locations in Japan and overseas under the leadership of the management team while continuing the activities it has traditionally conducted.

  1. 1With a view toward the identification and evaluation of risks concerning the MUCC Group and to respond properly to them, the Compliance and Risk Management Committee will determine a plan on risk management activities for each fiscal year.
  2. 2Individual locations rank individual risks by their level of influence and frequency of occurrence. We follow a sequence of processes, specifically, studying response policies to address these risks, creating action plans, implementing risk control measures, and reviewing and reporting after the implementation of these measures.
  3. 3We have a framework in which activities are shared with the management team and with related divisions through the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Crisis Management under the Committee and monitored on a regular basis.

Basic Policy on Information Security

The MUCC Group has formulated its Basic Policy on Information Security for ensuring disclosure, utilization, maintenance and management of information appropriate to a company that has earned the trust of society and is highly evaluated by society within an information security operation framework. The MUCC Group will observe this Basic Policy on Information Security and endeavor to maintain information security.

  1. 1We will comply with laws, regulations and internal rules relating to information security and endeavor to protect all the information assets possessed by the MUCC Group.
  2. 2We will establish the Information Security Subcommittee to properly manage information security within the MUCC Group.
  3. 3We will conduct staff education and awareness-raising activities to make sure that every single officer, employee and other person recognizes the importance of information assets to comprehensively implement information security.
  4. 4We will continually assess risks related to information assets and implement information security measures to safely manage information assets.
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