China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited (hereafter as “CR Power” or “We”) carefully selects suppliers and other business partners based on their foundation and reputation in term of compliance management. We strictly comply with internal policies such as Procurement Center Management Guidelines, Procurement Management Standards, Tender Monitoring Management Standards and sanction for supplier misconduct. Our employees are required to safeguard fairness competition and comply with the recusal and confidentiality rules during the procurement process. We adopt zero tolerance for anti-competitive behaviours such as collusion, bid-rigging, below-cost bids, monopoly, and kickbacks. Besides, we have adopted the Rules for the Periodic Rotation of Procurement Personnel to maintain a fair, impartial and reasonable procurement process. Meanwhile, we avoid any conflicts with CR Power’s values and compliance concept in our partnership with business partners.
Scope
The principles apply to China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited and its affiliates.
Principles
i) Business Ethics and Conduct
All suppliers and contractors must comply with the Code of Business Conduct regarding anti-corruption, bribery, blackmailing, conflicts of interest and including but not limited to the following:
> Do not establish business relationship with the company by providing any gifts and hospitality to company’s employees and their relatives;
> Do not negotiate privately or enter a tacit agreement with company’s employees on trade secrets such as base bid, bid document from other parties or terms of contracts;
> Do not collude with other bidders and use improper means such as vicious competition in business competitions;
> Do not provide employees, their trustees, or agents with benefits, kickback, cash, marketable securities, vouchers, or valuable gifts. Do not provide company’s employees and their relatives with banquet invitation, entertainment, sports, leisure and tourism activities which may hinder them from performing work duties impartially;
> Any parties found to have tendency or have committed to bribery to company’s employees should be impeded, criticised and educated;
> Company’s employees should reject to accept any bribes and report it to the relevant superiors, Supervision Department, Audit Department if any corrupt behaviours are identified.
ii) Environmental Responsibility
> Suppliers and contractors must strictly comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations and adopt effective environmental policies or relevant measures based on the products and services provided;
> Suppliers and contractors must evaluate and monitor the environmental impacts of their businesses, strive to adopt measures to manage their environmental impacts, and continuously improve their environmental performance.
iii) Occupational Health and Safety
> Suppliers and contractors must provide employees with a safe working environment, develop an independent safety management system, and adopt effective preventive measures on site to ensure the stable operation of equipment and personal and property safety in line with the “safety first, prevention-focused” approach;
> Suppliers and contractors should identify and evaluate potential workplace emergencies and minimize possible impacts by implementing emergency plans and procedures;
> Suppliers and contractors must arrange qualified personnel to provide us with products and services under the contract terms and offer them training and safety measures necessary for them to perform the work;
> We set up the award of contractor’s environmental, health and safety (EHS) management to encourage contractors to take effective measures for improving their EHS management level and achieving relevant EHS targets.
iv) Employment Practices
> Suppliers and contractors must have good employment practices and prohibit the use of forced and child labour;
> Suppliers and contractors must reduce, prohibit and prevent all forms of employment discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, illness, marital status or any other status;
> Suppliers and contractors must protect the rights of employees in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
v) Complaint Mechanism
We have established the CR Power Tendering and Procurement Projects Complaint Handling Guidelines to improve our supplier complaint mechanism. We have delegated channels to receive and handle grievances and complaints from tenderers during bid invitation, bid evaluation, and bid result announcement to ensure a compliant, fair and efficient complaint handling procedure. All information is kept strictly confidential.
CR Power’s Commitment
CR Power strictly complies with requirement set out by chapter Compliance requirements on business partner in China Resources Group Code of Business Conduct and is committed to:
> Strictly follow the principles of openness and transparency to deal with all suppliers and contractors in products and services procurement;
> Require all suppliers and contractors to strictly comply with all applicable environmental, social and governance laws and regulations;
> Ensure suppliers’ and contractors’ behaviours are in line with the requirements in relation to compliance standards during the process of building relation with them;
> In the course of business, continuously raise concerns on suppliers’ and contractors’ moral and behaviour;
In the event of suppliers and contractors being involved in any unethical behaviours or non-compliance, complain and report the case to compliance department.