2024 Integrated Report

The Group’s ethics policy

In 2006, the Bouygues group introduced a Code of Ethics, which sets out the main values to which the Group and its employees are expected to adhere in performing their professional duties, no matter where they are in the world. This code is intended to help employees make decisions in real-life situations based on clear and precise principles.

The Code of Ethics is available at: bouygues.com/en/ethics-and-compliance/

This code is supplemented by an Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct and a series of Compliance programmes, through which the Group reiterates the main regulations and rules of conduct that apply. These ethics-related documents specify the measures for information, prevention, control and penalties that are to be implemented within the business segments.

More specifically, the Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct outlines the Bouygues group’s zero-tolerance stance on corruption and influence peddling. It also underlines the duty of care incumbent on all staff, along with the resulting responsibilities – especially for senior executives. The Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct is available at: bouygues.com/en/ethics-and-compliance/

The Group regularly revises its ethics and compliance literature to reflect legislative and regulatory developments and to make these documents more tangible and operational.

In 2022, the Group updated its Code of Ethics and its Anti-Corruption Compliance programme, now known as the Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct.

In 2024, the “Competition” and “Embargoes, Economic Sanctions and Export Restrictions” compliance programmes were overhauled.

Governance of ethics issues

The designated Ethics officer within each business segment is responsible for disseminating and implementing the Group’s ethics policy and practice. This officer is supported by a Compliance officer and, for business segments with international operations, by a network of Ethics and Compliance liaison officers whom employees can contact if they have any questions or doubts. These arrangements support and guide employees in the conduct to be adopted in their daily activities.

Like the parent company, each business segment has its own Ethics Committee, which regularly examines ethical issues.

Within the Bouygues Board of Directors, the Ethics, CSR and Patronage Committee, chaired by an independent director, reports to the General Counsel.

In 2024, the work of the above Committee addressed a range of ethics-related matters in its work, including tracking Group-wide whistleblowing statistics, issuing an opinion on patronage and sponsorship activities by Bouygues SA, monitoring the Group’s ethics and compliance roadmap, issuing an opinion on the achievement of the requirements for the ethics criterion applicable to the 2023 (ex post) and 2024 (ex ante) variable remuneration of Executive Officers, and reviewing specific cases.