Fighting corruption
RATP Group cares about creating and maintaining a culture of trust. The foundations of this culture include a zero-tolerance policy for poor practices and full rejection of corruption and influence peddling in any form.
Prevention
In order to prevent illicit business practices, RATP Group maps risks, develops preventive tools, and trains managers and employees.
Risk mapping:
Risk mapping identifies, analyses, and prioritises RATP Group’s risks of exposure to external requests for the purpose of corruption.
Risk mapping, a fundamental part of the anti-corruption compliance programme, was carried out across the entire company. Each entity created an action plan specific to the risks identified.
Training:
RATP Group develops and implements continuing education to provide training on the risks of corruption and influence peddling. The training plan helps spread a culture of compliance throughout RATP Group entities. It takes three forms:
Obligatory, in-person training sessions for affected managers and staff;
Obligatory, in-person training sessions for staff members who work on compliance issues; and
Online training sessions for unaffected staff.
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Detection
RATP Group maintains an alert system, assesses its third parties, and inspects accounting to detect illicit business practices.
The alert system: Internal, external, and occasional employees, as well as third parties, have access to RATP Group’s alert system (in French).
Assessment of third parties: RATP Group’s success depends on building relationships based on trust, fairness, and transparency with suppliers, subcontractors, clients, and business partners. To become more familiar with the third parties with which we work, RATP Group implements processes to assess clients, first-level suppliers, and intermediaries in relation to risk mapping.
Accounting inspections: RATP Group creates accounting inspection processes specifically to prevent corruption. The processes are intended to ensure that books, registers, and accounts are not used to hide corruption or influence peddling.
Inspection
RATP Group’s monitoring system, and the disciplinary mechanism attached to its code of conduct, help the Group audit its processes and punish illicit business practices.
The inspection and internal assessment mechanism: RATP Group is committed to making continuous progress. As such, it inspects and assesses measures implemented as part of the compliance programme. This ensures monitoring and helps implement any necessary adjustments.
The disciplinary mechanism: RATP Group does not compromise, and it tolerates no violations of its code of conduct. As such, it attached its business code of conduct (in French) to its different entities’ internal regulations.