Compliance with these principles is an essential element in our business success.

The Unilever Board is

responsible for ensuring these principles are applied throughout Unilever.

The Chief Executive Officer is responsible for implementing these principles and is supported in this by
the Global Code and Policy Committee, which is chaired by the Chief Legal Officer.

Day-to-day responsibility is delegated to all senior management of the geographies, categories, functions
and operating companies. They are responsible for implementing these principles, supported by local
Code Committees. Assurance of compliance is given and monitored each year. Compliance is subject to
review by the Board supported by the Corporate Responsibility Committee and for financial and
accounting issues the Audit Committee.

Any breaches of the Code must be reported. The Board of Unilever will not criticise management for any
loss of business resulting from adherence to these principles and other mandatory policies. Provision has
been made for employees to be able to report in confidence and no employee will suffer as a
consequence of doing so.

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We have strong values and clear policies and standards to ensure our employees not only do things right
but also do the right thing.
We expect everyone at Unilever to be an ambassador for our high ethical standards – what we call
‘business integrity’. We want to create an environment where employees not only live our values in their
own work – integrity, respect, responsibility and pioneering– but are vigilant in identifying potential
concerns, and confident about speaking up in such situations.

Our ambitions do not stop there. We aim to have a positive influence across our value chain, working
with suppliers, distributors and all third parties to raise the bar on issues such as human rights and anti-
bribery and corruption.

Unilever’s Business Integrity programme brings our values to life for all employees, and helps them apply
our ethical standards day-to-day. In addition to our Code of Business Principles, it includes clear policies,
guidelines and related learning materials, as well as robust procedures and controls to help us prevent,
detect and respond to any inappropriate behaviour.

Our focus on business integrity makes Unilever stronger. It helps us to attract, retain and engage the best
employees, and better able to select the right suppliers and business partners. It protects our people,
our assets, our reputation and our relationships with stakeholders. It supports the conditions to work
collaboratively, both internally and with our partners. And ultimately it helps us grow sustainably and
deliver on the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP).