• This Code of Conduct is applicable to all Tecnisata Industrial Group companies (Tecnisata, Micronorma, Toolpresse and Smart Improve Consulting) and establishes that all its employees recognize their ethical responsibilities.
• All employees, internally or externally, base their work on the ethical principles and values associated with the Tecnisata Industrial Group, adopting behaviors based on social and environmental responsibility, strict compliance with the law and regulations and strict respect for the universal principles of dignity and human rights.
• The activity of Tecnisata Industrial Group and its employees is guided by its reference standards of rigor, impartiality, transparency, cooperation and responsibility, integrity and justice.
• This code of conduct applies to all entities and all departments of Tecnisata Industrial Group, and in particular to directors/managers, but also to all employees, serving as support for all relationships, internal and external of Tecnisata Industrial Group.
• The ethical guidelines contained in this code of conduct are generally based on the basic principles of the United Nations Global Compact (annex), the ILO Conventions, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations conventions relating to of the Child, in the conventions related to the eradication of any and all forms of discrimination against women, as well as in the OECD directives for international companies. The following points 2 to 6 represent the minimum standards and aim to prevent situations that could compromise the integrity of the company and its employees.
• Tecnisata Industrial Group respects the basic principles of the Global Compact and its management strives to achieve its objectives.

• Tecnisata Industrial Group is committed to complying with its social responsibilities in all of its business activities.
• In all its commercial actions and decisions, it undertakes to take into account and comply with the respective legislation in force, as well as with all other provisions applicable in the countries in which it operates or has activity, treating its business partners in a fair manner. The Group honors and respects its contracts, always taking into account possible changes to regulatory frameworks.

a) Corruption

• During communication and all contacts with business partners (customers, suppliers and others) and state institutions, the interests of companies and organizations will always be kept away from the private interests of their employees. Activities and decisions (buying, contracting, etc.) are made without any kind of secondary consideration or personal interests.
• The local anti-corruption legislation in force will be respected.
• Among other things, the following should be taken into account:
• Transgressions related to public officials
• The granting of personal benefits (especially in cash, such as payments and loans, including the granting of small gifts over a certain period of time) by Tecnisata Industrial Group and its employees to public officials and employees is not permitted (in this condition) with the aim of obtaining benefits for the Group or for themselves or third parties.
• Transgressions during activities
• It is forbidden to offer, promise, consent or grant personal benefits in exchange for favors in commercial relations. Likewise, any personal benefits cannot be demanded or accepted in the development of the Group's activities. Tecnisata Industrial Group will take the necessary measures at any time so that its employees do not seek any type of benefits of that type.
• In the course of commercial relations, Tecnisata Industrial Group's management and employees may not offer, promise, demand, grant or accept any type of gifts, payments, invitations or services, granted with the intention of improperly influencing a commercial relationship or if there is a danger that they jeopardize the professional independence of business partners. Excluded from this characterization are gifts and invitations that are within the normal limits of hospitality, courtesy and custom.
• Tecnisata Industrial Group will carry out a compulsory directive regarding the acceptance or granting of gifts, invitations to events or entertainment. This may also establish exceptions with regard to symbolic gifts or gifts of low value, business meals and suitable events, organized by the companies themselves or even by business partners (customers, suppliers). The directive will be published and made known to Tecnisata Industrial Group, being also communicated to potential or existing business partners.
• Tecnisata Industrial Group will designate a person who can be contacted if any employee of Tecnisata Industrial Group finds himself in a situation of conflict of interest or if he is not sure of the existence or possibility of existence of a conflict of interest.

b) Behavior towards competitors (competition law)

• Tecnisata Industrial Group respects fair competition, guided by the laws in force, which protect and encourage competition, especially competition laws and regulations.
• With regard to contact with competitors, these regulations prohibit, in particular, collusion and other activities that may influence prices or conditions, which may distribute sales areas and customers or which inadmissibly hinder or restrict free and open competition. In addition, such legislation prohibits agreements between customers and suppliers that restrict the customer's freedom to determine, individually and autonomously, prices and other conditions when reselling (determining prices and conditions).
• Bearing in mind the fact that differentiating between prohibited cartels and legitimate collaboration can be problematic, Tecnisata Industrial Group provides its employees with a contact person to whom they can always turn in case of doubts.

c) Forced labor

• Tecnisata Industrial Group rejects any form of forced labor.

d) Child labor

• Tecnisata Industrial Group complies with the regulations of the United Nations regarding human and children's rights and undertakes, in particular, to comply with the agreements regarding the minimum age for the performance of work (provision 138 of the International Labor Organization) as well as the agreement concerning the eradication of the worst forms of child labor (International Labor Organization provision 182). In countries where child labor legislation sets more stringent standards, these take precedence and must be strictly adhered to.