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Compliance

SAUTER Germany Social Policy

SAUTER strives for exemplary quality in its products and processes, but also in its conduct. Our corporate values form the basis for this. We are firmly convinced that respecting and upholding our SAUTER values will continue to be the basis of our success in the future.

Committed to these SAUTER business principles, we have introduced rules and procedures in our company to ensure that we can all live up to the high standards that we set ourselves. These rules and procedures are constantly updated and adapted to current and legal requirements. They are accessible to all employees.

These principles are divided thematically into the following guidelines:

Quality, Environmental and Occupational Safety Policy (PDF)
Code of conduct(PDF)
Compliance Helpline

These guidelines are summarised in the SAUTER Code of Conduct, which we also require all our business partners to comply with.

Strict adherence to these rules is one of the principles of good corporate governance, which is why we commit ourselves and all our employees to comply with them.

Reporting an incident:

Reliable information helps us to counteract violations at an early stage and reduce the harm to our company, our employees and our business partners. We therefore offer the possibility of contacting us via our whistleblower system in order to report violations – anonymously if desired.

All SAUTER employees, but also customers, suppliers and other third parties, can submit information.

Please use the following link for our SAUTER whistleblower system:

Whistleblower system

 

 

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SAUTER Head Office was the target of a cyber security incident on November 20, 2024. SAUTER’s IT department immediately activated, well defined, internal emergency plans. All IT systems were completely isolated and shut down to successfully prevent the attack from spreading. External cybersecurity experts and data forensics specialists then began to check all systems and restore them securely. This process is unfortunately time-consuming, but absolutely necessary to ensure that the cyber-attack does not continue at a later date.


The SAUTER websites have been affected by the emergency operation and are available again with immediate effect.


There are currently no concrete indications that our customers' infrastructures have been compromised in any way by SAUTER devices. It appears to be an opportunistic incident with no clearly recognisable long-term goals or systematic attacks. The situation does not currently suggest that there is a targeted, sustained threat to the affected systems.