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ISISPACE enforces this Supplier Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards of behaviour and practices that ISISPACE requires from our suppliers, partners, and other third parties who provide services on our behalf.
ISISPACE Group is a vertically integrated small satellite company, focused on providing high-value, cost-effective space solutions by making use of the latest innovative technologies.
As one of Europe’s leaders in the small satellite domain, ISISPACE is committed to the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility and ethical business conduct.
For this reason, ISISPACE enforces this Supplier Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards of behaviour and practices that ISISPACE requires from our suppliers, partners, and other third parties who provide services on our behalf.
Suppliers shall operate in full compliance with national and local laws, rules and regulations relevant to their business operations in each country where operations are managed or where services are provided.
Suppliers are encouraged to go beyond basic legal compliance and to enforce compulsory regulations on human rights, labour standards and anti-corruption measures.
Suppliers must respect and protect all applicable employment standards and internationally proclaimed human rights, as described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, and the principles established in the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles.
All employees and workers should be treated honestly, with dignity and respect.
Supplier must expressly prohibit any form of child labour within their organisation and within their supply chain.
Suppliers shall not employ any workers under the age of 18 to perform any work that is defined in national law as hazardous.
Supplier must verify the age of its employees and maintain copies of its employees’ proof of age.
Suppliers must fully comply with applicable laws regarding slavery, forced labour, and human trafficking.
Suppliers shall not participate in, or benefit from any form of forced labour, including bonded labour, involuntary prison labour, slavery, or servitude. No employee can be made to work through force, the threat of force, or any form of intimidation.
Supplier must not engage in or support any form of human trafficking. Suppliers are encouraged to implement due diligence measures to ensure that human trafficking does not exist within their extended supply chains.
Supplier shall ensure fair treatment in the workplace and provide equal employment opportunity to existing and prospective workers without discrimination based on age, gender, racial characteristics, maternity or marital status, disability, sexual orientation, nationality or cultural, religious or personal beliefs, political opinion, or social or ethnic origin or further grounds as may be determined by the national law of the country or countries where the performance of the contract takes place.
Supplier guarantees that it complies with all applicable safety and health laws and regulations.
Suppliers shall ensure a safe and healthy workplace or any other location where work is undertaken. All work shall be preceded by and be based on documented adequate risk management with implemented controls. This shall include physical, social and organisational health risks.
These measures must be clearly communicated to employees.
Suppliers shall ensure that employee residential facilities are also safe and clean, where provided to employees.
Suppliers should be fully compensating for all time worked and should be adequate to meet the basic needs of employees.
Employees must be compensated for overtime work premium rate in accordance with the applicable law, standard, or their employment contract details.
Employees shall be granted and correctly compensated for any types of paid leave or time off to which they are legally entitled.
Deductions from wages are permitted only insofar as they are mandated by national and local law, regulation, or collective agreements and communicated to the employees beforehand. Wage deductions may never occur as a disciplinary measure.
Suppliers shall follow ILO standards regulating working hours, resting hours, maximum consecutive days of work and annual leave.
Supplier’s employees shall be free to leave the work area after completing their standard work hours.
Suppliers shall respect their employees’ right to terminate their employment after reasonable notice and to receive all owed salary.
Suppliers must provide all employees with a written contract in a language they understand, clearly stating their rights and responsibilities.
Suppliers shall conduct their business in a manner that actively and sufficiently manages environmental risks.
Suppliers shall make sure they always obtain valid environmental permits and registrations for their business operations.
Suppliers shall maintain procedures for notifying local authorities in the event of an environmental accident resulting from the Supplier’s operation.
Suppliers must conduct their business in an ethical manner and in compliance with the requirements of all applicable laws.
Suppliers shall keep financial records in accordance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements and applicable accounting practices.
Suppliers should take appropriate steps to ensure that all employees and representatives comply with such obligations.
Supplier shall adhere to all applicable competition laws and shall not fix prices, rig bids, allocate customers or markets or exchange current, recent, or future pricing information with its competitors.
Suppliers must maintain and share accurate trade data and documents related to their products.
Suppliers must comply with national and local laws as well as international sanctions regulations.
Suppliers shall not engage in or cause ISISPACE to engage in any form of sanction breaches. Supplier must not sell ISISPACE products and/or semi-finished products containing substances or materials that are on the EU sanctions lists or are otherwise banned.
Suppliers shall not use or allow the use of corporal punishment or any form of physical or psychological coercion, or intimidation against employees.
Suppliers shall not authorise any behaviour, including but not limited to gestures, language, and physical contact that is sexually coercive, threatening, abusive or exploitative.
Suppliers shall implement and maintain effective programs educating and encouraging their employees to make ethical, value-driven choices in their business activities.
Suppliers shall develop and promote a speak-up culture and to provide workers and third parties with access to adequate reporting channels where they can raise concerns about certain situations or behaviours.
Suppliers shall respect intellectual property rights and protect confidential information by safeguarding it against misuse, theft, fraud or improper disclosure.