ESG Report 2022

Furthermore, in order to effectively enhance reduce the possibility of employees performing employees' awareness of integrity and business misconduct when operating business or ethics, the Group has established The United commercial activities. Before participating in Laboratories Employees' Code of Honesty and business or commercial activities, employees need Self- Discipline in accordance with laws, to report to their superiors' and obtain their r e g u l a t i o n s a n d t h e C o m p a n y ' s o w n superiors' consent. If the receipt of gifts cannot be circumstances. The Code clearly defines improper rejected during the event, the employee must conduct and itemizes the declaration of interest report to their superiors, and the received items and filing procedures of operating business or should be handed over to the Administrative commercial activities. We have also established a Department for registration and storage, and clean supervision mechanism and penalties to handled in accordance with the system. 5.2.3 Anti-Corruption In addition to building an incorruptible culture and of 16 training sessions on compliance and business encouraging employees to be self-disciplined and ethics, covering topics such as donation of drugs, abide by the laws, the Group has also established drug sales, representative responsibilities, The United Laboratories Anti-Fraud and Complaint information security, contract signing, with Reporting Management System to combat all combined training count of 20,936. In addition, the potential fraud in the Company. The Group's Audit Group's Legal Department has conducted a and Legal Affairs Centre is the anti-corruption combination of online and offline anti-corruption department responsible for organizing the Group's training, with the target audience including all corruption risk assessment, establishing employees and suppliers , a total recorded maintenance reporting channels, and accepting attendance of 949 is recorded . The Group will and investigating corruption cases. When reports review the anti - corruption policy as appropriate or clues on corruption matters are received, the and conduct annual audits . In 2023, the Group Group will arrange investigators for analysis, plans to conduct a comprehensive update of the evaluation and investigation, and penalize the Company's current anti-corruption system and employees involved based on the investigation launch a series of online anti-corruption training for results and opinions on its handling. In order to each company regarding the new system, including enhance deterrent effect, for any employees that relevant violations and case studies, so as to are associated with malpractice behaviours, the enhance employees' and managers' understanding Company shall impose corresponding internal of the integrity of their duties and to raise their economic and administrative disciplinary penalty awareness of the risks of violations and the risks of regardless of whether the case constitute a criminal illegal and disciplinary offences. offence. If the case is serious, the Group reserves As for the partners, the Group requires both parties the right to terminate the labour relationship and to sign the Incorruptible Cooperation Agreement, pursue criminal responsibility according to law. which itemizes the integrity compliance that both In order to further enhance our staff’s awareness of parties shall comply with, and provides telephone, complying with business ethics and related laws, email and post complaint reporting methods to the Group regularly organizes training sessions on effectively reduce the risk of corruption and ensure laws and corporate regulations for our staff to the interests of both parties. During the year, the enhance their professionalism and strengthen the Group was not involved in any cases of corruption prevention of legal risks. During the Year, the litigation. Group’s Legal Affairs Department organized a total Complaint Reporting and Confidentiality The Group provides various channels for “Smart United Laboratories”. All reporting channels employees or any of the Group's partners to report allow employees , suppliers and business-related corruption and malpractice, such as direct phone personnel to directly report immoral or dishonest calls, e-mails, post, or the complaint reporting behaviours to the Group's Audit and Legal Affairs channel on the online mobile office platform system Centre anonymously. Compliance training 16 Recorded attendances of compliance training 20,936 Recorded attendances of anti - corruption training 949 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2022 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited 23