OMV promotes a positive workplace environment by fostering inclusion, integrity, ethical practices, and transparency within its business operations. By creating a safe and accessible whistleblowing channel, OMV ensures the promotion of these values. This strong corporate culture allows OMV to remain a leading employer in the sector, encouraging a positive working environment and creating employment opportunities.
At OMV, compliance and ethical commitment are integrated at all levels of the Group, with the expectation that our business partners share the same understanding and dedication to ethical standards. OMV operates an ambitious, well-established, mature compliance program for the entire Group that is state of the art by international industry standards. Due to this current robust compliance governance across the Group, anti-corruption and anti-bribery were assessed below the materiality threshold at the OMV Group level. However, for Borealis, a fully consolidated subsidiary of the OMV Group, these issues are material due to its specific operational context. With operations spanning various industries, including automotive, energy, infrastructure, health care, and consumer products, and a presence in 120 countries, Borealis faces diverse challenges regarding ethical business practices, which subsequently elevates the potential risk of bribery and corruption in its value chain. To address these material impacts and risks, Borealis has incorporated anti-corruption and anti-bribery measures into its Ethics Policy and has obtained ISO 37301 and ISO 37001 certifications.