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Fair Business Practices
4.5. Fair Business Practices
Since 2002, Vivendi has had a Compliance Program setting out the
general rules of ethics applicable to every employee in the group
regardless of his or her role or seniority. These rules of conduct cover the
rights of employees, truth and protection of information, prevention of
conflicts of interest, commercial ethics and compliance with competition
laws, the use of property and resources belonging to the group, financial
ethics and respect for the environment. Following these rules is a
condition for belonging to Vivendi.
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4.5.1. Action to Prevent Corruption
In 2014, the geographic distribution of the group’s business activity showed that 91% of its revenues came from countries with low exposure to
corruption, according to the Transparency International Index. Notwithstanding this result, the group remains vigilant and has taken steps to prevent
any risks in this area.
Breakdown of the group’s
*
revenues by country according to the risk of corruption as defined by Transparency International
GRI
UNGC
OECD
Scope covered
G4-DMA SO Corruption aspect, G4-EC1 and S03 10
VII.2
Canal+ Group, UMG, Vivendi Village, Corporate
€1,883 million
€156 million
€6,987 million
€714 million
€349 million
High level
of corruption
Average level
of corruption
Low level
of corruption
Corruption index of countries (2014)
Breakdown of sales according to degree of corruption
0
50
100
5% of revenues
Revenues as of 12/31/2014
4% of revenues
91% of revenues
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To comply with financial reporting, the data refer to the scope of operations presented in Section 4.2.1. They do not include the data from SFR and GVT, which are activities sold
or in the process of being sold in 2014.
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