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The NEC Group believes that compliance is essential for a company to coexist with society and fulfill the
expectations of stakeholders. The NEC Group is working to strengthen risk management and compliance
practices through ongoing activities to raise awareness, the establishment of internal consultation and reporting
systems, the selection of priority risks, and other activities*. In this section, the NEC Group introduces some
activities to achieve global business expansion.
A meeting with NGO experts in Hong Kong.
On-site CSR Assessment in Supply Chains
Countries around the world have enhanced enforcement of
competition laws and anti-bribery regulations in recent
years. Since 2008, NEC has encouraged overseas
companies within the NEC Group to establish Competition
Policy. NEC has for some time had a compliance manual to
accommodate the Antimonopoly Act of Japan. It
additionally formulated a Competition Law Compliance
To date, NEC has used its Supply-Chain CSR Check Sheet
in conducting written surveys of overall CSR activities to
encourage CSR initiatives among suppliers.
In fiscal 2013, NEC prioritized human rights and
occupational health and safety, areas which written surveys
had revealed as insufficient, in launching the CSR-PMR (CSR
Process Management Review) assessment. This on-site CSR
assessment program is designed to improve suppliers’
Policy in October 2011 mindful of complying with overseas
competition laws as well. NEC has also established the
Rules for Contacts with Competitors and the Basic Rule on
Anti-bribery. The NEC Group will continue to pursue fair
trade going forward, including through training for its
employees worldwide.
management practices. NEC chose one domestic and one
Chinese manufacturing contractor to conduct a trial of this
multi-faceted assessment, which included interviews with
their employees.
A key feature is that assessments are not consigned to
external auditors or other third parties, but are conducted
by trained in-house employees who visit supplier sites for
direct observations and discussions. Assessments are not
unilateral, but are based on NEC and suppliers mutually
understanding one another’s circumstances in keeping with
a commitment to the concept of Co-Capacity Building in
CSR, which seeks to raise respective CSR capabilities.
Before instituting the program, NEC exchanged views with
several non-government organizations and experts and
confirmed the appropriateness of methodologies and tools.
NEC will continue leveraging CSR-PMR to promote CSR
initiatives in its supply chain.
Promoting Fair Trading
* Please visit the internal control (compliance and risk management) link below for further details.
http://www.nec.com/en/global/csr/
STRENGTHEN RISK MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCE
COMPLIANCE
41 NEC Corporation
Annual Report 2013