SUPPLIER CODE OF CONDUCT

INTEGRITY AND ETHICAL CONDUCT

 INTRODUCTION INTEGRITY AND
Commitment to Values and Responsible Sourcing ETHICAL CONDUCT
Sika is committed to a specific set of values, inside our own global operation
as well as across our entire supply chain.

Our values are reflected in the ten principles of the United Nations Global
Compact initiative, the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and
Human Rights, the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on
Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the global chemical industry’s
WE ACT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW
Responsible Care® program and the Conflict Minerals Regulation.

Our values can be summarized as follows: WE DO NOT COMPROMISE ON INTEGRITY

 We respect universal human and workers’ rights.
 We act in accordance with fundamental environmental, health and safety
standards. WE APPLY HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS
 We promote sustainable development and corporate responsibility.
TO OUR WORK
Sika expects its suppliers to embrace the same set of values, and to enforce
them in their own supply chain network. Therefore, we carefully evaluate our
suppliers and approve them only after they have gone through a screening
and qualification process.
WE ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THESE
PRINCIPLES
This Supplier Code of Conduct defines our expectations and provides our sup-
pliers with the guidelines regarding requirements to be met when supplying
goods or services to Sika anywhere in the world.

We extend our commitment to responsible sourcing by helping suppliers im-

prove their sustainability track record. Together, we want to ensure that we all
are in line with the standards as defined in this document.

Thank you for your engagement and contribution.

Thomas Hasler Marcos Vazquez

CEO, Sika Group Head of Procurement, Sika Group

Baar, Switzerland, June 1, 2021

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 COMPLIANCE WITH THIS 1. APPLICATION

SUPPLIER CODE OF CONDUCT This Supplier Code of Conduct shall govern the relationship between Sika and
IS THE RESPONSIBILITY Supplier. The term “supplier” as used in this document refers to a legal or
natural person, which – as a third party and based on a contractual agreement
OF ALL SUPPLIERS OF SIKA – provides any type of raw material, good, technology, know-how or service to
Sika and/or its subsidiaries.

2. COMPLIANCE

Supplier assures full compliance with all applicable laws and international
standards. This includes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the core
conventions of the International Labor Organization on labor standards, and
all applicable local, national and international laws concerning anti-corruption,
fair competition, non-proliferation and export controls, sanctions and embar-
gos, environment-health-safety protection, permits and licenses to operate,
as well as secrecy and privacy protection.

3. NO BRIBERY, CORRUPTION AND MONEY-LAUNDERING

Supplier assures zero tolerance for any form of bribery, corruption, or money
laundering. This means that Supplier does not engage in offering or accepting
any kind of incentive, kickback, gratuity, gift or other unlawful favor with the
intention to receive favorable treatment by Sika or obtain/retain Sika busi-
ness. In addition, Supplier has internal rules in place prohibiting bribery and
corruption and provides regular training to its staff to assure compliance.

4. NO ANTI-COMPETITIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES

Supplier assures full compliance with applicable competition laws. This

means, Supplier does not engage with its competitors in price fixing, bid rig-
ging, customer/market collusion, exchange of pricing information or the like.

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 5. RESPECT FOR HUMAN, WORKERS’, AND CONSUMERS’ RIGHTS 8. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Supplier complies with fundamental human, workers’, and consumers’ rights. Suppliers grants its employees the freedom to associate and the right to bar-
All employees must be treated with respect and dignity and shall not be ver- gaining collectively, to the extent permitted under applicable local law.
bally or physically harassed, abused, threatened, or intimidated.

Supplier will not engage in any practice nor tolerate any circumstance that 9. FAIR WAGES AND WORKING HOURS
puts the life or health of workers or consumers at risk. All applicable health
and safety standards must be fully met. Supplier complies with all applicable wage and working hours regulations.

Supplier shall implement suitable internal guidelines and assure adequate

training to concerned staff.

6. NO MODERN SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, CHILD OR FORCED

LABOR

Supplier enforces the prohibition of all forms of child¹ or forced labor

(including modern slavery and human trafficking), in accordance with relevant
international conventions. Where local laws are stricter, they take precedence.
Supplier assures implementation of the prohibition of modern slavery, human
trafficking, child and forced labor in its own supply chain network.

7. EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION

Supplier does not discriminate² against any specific group of its work force,
promotes diversity and inclusion among its work force, and is required to
document its efforts to achieve such goals.

¹ The term “child” refers to any person under the age of 15, or under the age of completing compulsory schooling (whichever is higher).
² “Discrimination” is the act and result of treating people unequally by imposing unequal burdens or denying benefits rather than
treating each person fairly on the basis of individual merit.

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 10. PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH, COMMITMENT TO 12. NON-PROLIFERATION, EXPORT CONTROLS, SANCTIONS,
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Supplier implements all applicable environmental, health, safety and trans- Supplier must have measures in place to assure compliance with applicable
portation standards. It maintains a recognized management system identical non-proliferation, export control, sanctions and hazardous materials regula-
or similar to ISO 14000 ff. and ISO 45001, ensuring a continuous monitoring tions.
and improvement of its operational impacts on environment, health and
safety. If appropriate, it further implements adequate management systems
to guarantee the safe and environmentally sound development, manufactur- 13. NO CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
ing, transport, and use of its products, as well as full compliance with all appli-
cable regulations concerning dangerous goods and hazardous substances. Supplier must be free of any conflict of interests³ when fulfilling its contractual
obligations vis-à-vis Sika. In case of an actual or potential conflict of interests,
Accordingly, Supplier ensures the safe management of waste, air emissions please immediately contact [email protected].
and wastewater discharges along its own supply chain. It strives for increased
resource efficiency, by means of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly
technologies to reduce the use of finite resources, energy consumption, waste, 14. SUPPLY CHAIN IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING
wastewater, pollution, emissions of greenhouse gases, and any other negative
impact on biodiversity, the environment, health or safety. Supplier must implement above-listed principles in its own supply chain and is
expected to document its efforts to achieve such goals.
Supplier provides Sika with all required product safety and labelling documen-
tation and makes sure that the goods delivered to Sika do not contain sub-
stances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction under the 15. TRANSPARENCY AND SPEAK-UP CULTURE
Global Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
(GHS CMR Category 1A/1B substances). Supplier must inform Sika immediately about observed violations of above-
listed principles, by Supplier’s or Sika’s staff. In either case, please report to
Supplier regularly assesses potential emergencies and is prepared to imple- [email protected].
ment contingency plans in case of business interruption.

11. CONFIDENTIALITY, DATA PROTECTION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

To the extent required by applicable national laws and its contract(s) with
Sika, Supplier must maintain confidentiality regarding all confidential and
business sensitive information it exchanges with Sika. In its sphere of influ-
ence, it shall protect personal information it received from Sika as well as
Sika’s intellectual property rights with adequate measures.
³ A “conflict of interests” may result from pursuing goals that are not aligned or clash with each other, for instance if a Sika employee or
his/her close relative also owns a supplier company.

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 16. ASSESSMENT AND FOLLOW-UP

This Supplier Code of Conduct represents an integral part of the contractual

agreement between Sika and Supplier, unless Sika and Supplier – in a sepa-
rate Declaration of Recognition (see Annex) signed by Sika – agree that Sup-
plier’s own Code of Conduct or similar internal guidelines adequately satisfy
all above-mentioned principles and their implementation and thus may be
applied in lieu of Sika’s Supplier Code of Conduct.

Supplier grants Sika the right to assess, by means of targeted questionnaires

or third-party audits, compliance with certain or all of the above-listed prin-
ciples.

Sika at any point shall have the right to propose corrective actions to Supplier.
If Supplier is found not to have met above-listed requirements, Sika may ter-
minate its contract(s) with Supplier.

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SIKA GROUP Contact
Zugerstrasse 50 Phone +41 58 436 68 00
CH-6341 Baar Fax +41 58 436 68 50
Switzerland www.sika.com
Addendum to Sika’s Supplier Code of Conduct

*** Please write legibly and in capital letters ***

We

Company Legal Name: …………………………………………………………………………

Company Address: …………………………………………………………………………

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confirm with our signatures below that we accept and demonstrate our commitment to
Sika's Supplier Code of Conduct dated June 1, 2021.

Please return this duly signed Addendum to your Sika Contact person.

Place, Date: …………………………………………… Place, Date ……………………………………………

Signature: .……………………………………………. Signature: ……………………………………………

Name: ………………………………………………….. Name: ………………………………………………..

Title: ………………………………………………… Title: ………………………………………………