Success through integrity

Our Compliance Management System (CMS) is based on national and international standards and designed to identify potential risks early. If necessary, the system will initiate appropriate countermeasures in order to act preventively and ensure compliant conduct within the Group. We consistently raise awareness among all employees for  compliance being a matter of course.

We at DEUTZ employ a decentralised compliance structure. The Chief Compliance Officer of DEUTZ AG, who is responsible for the CMS and its continuous development, is supported by compliance officers appointed by the Board of Management and by the Chief Compliance Officer for the relevant divisions and affiliated companies. We have also appointed experts in emissions, product, and materials compliance who report to the Chief Compliance Officer every six months, as do the other compliance officers.

This enables us to offer every employee in the individual divisons the opportunity to seek confidential compliance advice. Our target group-oriented online compliance training programme is also available to keep all of our commercial Group employees up to date on all current compliance issues. It is supplemented by annual classroom training on current topics relating to compliance and integrity.

Furthermore, we have implemented a globally accessible whistleblower system for severe regulatory and legal violations, which can be used anonymously.

The basis for this is our Group-wide Code of Conduct, which guides all employees on responsible, ethical, and morally correct behaviour in the language of their country. We also expect all third parties with whom we have a business relationship to act and behave in accordance with these principles of conduct in our joint activities.

You can find our Code of Conduct here 

The Code of Conduct for the DEUTZ Group's suppliers also summarises the expectations we have of our suppliers and service providers regarding their attitude and conduct with regard to respect for human rights, compliance with occupational health and safety standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. This means that we not only set high standards internally but also work to ensure compliance with our values and principles along the entire value chain.

When selecting our business partners, we ensure that they comply with the applicable laws and act in accordance with ethical principles. We expect that these principles are adhered to throughout all business transactions. For this reason, all potential new and existing business partners undergo a risk-based business partner compliance check.

Further information on the business partner compliance check can be found here 

In addition, there are Group-wide policies intended to ensure appropriate conduct within the DEUTZ Group, toward our customers, business partners as well as public officials and the assumption of responsibility for the economy, the environment, and society.