TÜV SÜD's and TÜV Hessen's compliance management system provides the organizational basis for compliance with applicable law. It is based on the principles of the IDW PS 980 auditing standard and is continually imporoved. 

With our Compliance Management System, we pursue the approach of prevention, monitoring and response.

This includes in particular:

• Our Code of Conduct which was first adopted in 2008 and under which all TÜV SÜD and TÜV Hessen employees commit to lawful and responsible conduct and to fair treatment with absolute integrity.
• Our Compliance@TÜVSÜD Online Training which provides an interactive training in 20 different languages based on different compliance related topics for all our employees.
• Our core focus topics:
  • anti-corruption
  • antitrust law
  • export control
  • human rights as well as environmental protection obligations which related to human rights.
• Our Compliance-Organization: The central element of our compliance organization is the Global Compliance Office at the TÜV SÜD headquarters in Munich. It is led by our Chief Compliance Officer, who reports directly to the Chairman of the Board of Management. The Chief Compliance Officer acts autonomously and independently. Additionally, Compliance Officers are appointed for all TÜV SÜD companies and regions worldwide to ensure the implementation of our compliance management system at local level - also for tüv hessen.
• Our management´s clear commitment to compliance also plays an overriding role in TÜV SÜD's and TÜV Hessen's good and sustainable corporate culture. An effective compliance management system is based on exemplary management behavior, actions and decisions by management that are integrated into everyday work and live out in anexemplary manner, as well as transparent compliance goals and values with which employees can identify are the foundations for an effective compliance management system.