Building and promoting a strong ethical culture is essential for long-lasting relationships with stakeholders and being a trusted partner in the energy transition. Vestas’ corporate culture in relation to business conduct is not established through policies, but through annual communication campaigns, trainings, and awareness initiatives as part of our global and regional compliance programmes. These include 'Accountability' as a key reinforced in annual townhalls, employee development dialogues, and other communication initiatives. Our corporate culture is evaluated through the Global Compliance Survey and Employee Engagement Survey.

EthicsLine is our whistleblower system and main mechanism for identifying, reporting, and investigating concerns, promptly, independently and objectively as defined in the EthicsLine Policy. It accommodates both internal and external stakeholders. It allows employees and business partners to report suspected violations of Vestas Codes of Conduct, applicable laws, and Vestas policies. Hosted on a secure external platform, it ensures anonymity and protection from repercussion. The platform is accessible publicly at our corporate website, the Vestas Compliance app, our intranet, and by phone.

Vestas has established Global and Regional Compliance Programmes which outline how Vestas works with Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) inspired by the six principles in the UK Bribery Act 2010. The programmes are comprised of five pillars: 'Programme Governance,' 'Learning & Awareness' and 'Culture & Behaviour' which aim at preventing misconduct while 'Monitoring & Audit' and 'EthicsLine' are used to prevent, detect and manage misconduct.

The EthicsLine Policy sets the framework for our whistleblower system, designed to investigate suspected violations of laws and Vestas’ policies and procedures. Available to all employees and third parties, the policy applies globally across our value chain. It emphasises a safe reporting environment and details protections for individuals reporting misconduct or cooperating with investigations. The policy underscores the importance of a safe reporting environment and details the protections available to individuals who report misconduct or cooperate in good faith with an EthicsLine investigation, relating to our material impact on protection of whistleblowers.

EthicsLine is our whistleblower system and main mechanism for identifying, reporting, and investigating concerns, promptly, independently and objectively as defined in the EthicsLine Policy. It accommodates both internal and external stakeholders. It allows employees and business partners to report suspected violations of Vestas Codes of Conduct, applicable laws, and Vestas policies. Hosted on a secure external platform, it ensures anonymity and protection from repercussion.

EthicsLine is our whistleblower system and main mechanism for identifying, reporting, and investigating concerns, promptly, independently and objectively as defined in the EthicsLine Policy. It accommodates both internal and external stakeholders. It allows employees and business partners to report suspected violations of Vestas Codes of Conduct, applicable laws, and Vestas policies.

Our Global and Regional Compliance Programmes serve as our training policy for business conduct and relate to our impact on corruption and bribery (including anti-bribery). Our Global and Regional Compliance Programmes are updated annually. The scope of the programmes is global and regional in nature covering all of Vestas’ own workforce. The target audience is defined through a risk-based approach linked to the global compliance survey and EthicsLine cases. The current functions determined to be most at risk for bribery and corruption are office employees and service technicians due to the nature of their functions. The fundamental training is conducted as part of the onboarding process and based on the survey and EthicsLine cases. Additional training is performed on a yearly basis, covering areas relevant for Vestas.

The current functions determined to be most at risk for bribery and corruption are office employees and service technicians due to the nature of their functions.

The policy is subject to legal requirements under national law transposing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 or equivalent requirements with regard to the protection of whistleblowers.