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Corporate responsibility report<br />

The Ethics Officer is obligated to monitor the application<br />

of the Code of Ethics in relation to any issues<br />

reported to him or her, and submit a consolidated report<br />

to the Management Board. As the employee awareness<br />

of standards arising from the Code of Ethics grows,<br />

they get involved in discussing problems and morally<br />

equivocal situations. The majority of problems reported<br />

in 2010 concerned internal relations in the Company<br />

and moral issues. Each reported problem was analysed<br />

in the context of the provisions of the Code of Ethics,<br />

and actions were taken to explain and resolve each issue.<br />

As a result of engaging many business areas in corrective<br />

measures, the percentage of resolved issues is growing<br />

every year. The Ethics Officer is obliged to develop<br />

open communication, thoroughly analyse the principles<br />

applied in the Company, make people trust him or her,<br />

get involved in difficult discussions concerning ethical<br />

dilemmas, and publicly comment on behaviour that<br />

is incompliant with the Code of Ethics. We are aware<br />

that it takes a long time to change the people’s attitude<br />

to moral issues, which is why we regularly organise education<br />

and communication activities. Proper behaviour<br />

is promoted in corporate media (52 articles and auditions<br />

in “ORLEN ekspres” and ORLEN Studio). The Company<br />

has also organized group meetings and workshops<br />

concerning ethical problems.<br />

<strong>PKN</strong> ORLEN shares the knowledge and presents the experience<br />

gained in this area. In 2010, the Ethics Officer<br />

presented them:<br />

• at the Business Centre Club and to the students<br />

of a post-graduate course on “Ethics in Business”<br />

at the Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw;<br />

• during a panel at the International Conference on Business<br />

Ethics;<br />

• in a publication entitled “Ku Rzeczypospolitej gospodarczej”,<br />

edited by Professor Gasparski.<br />

<strong>PKN</strong> ORLEN applies the general principles of law and respect<br />

for human rights in its operations. Consequently,<br />

the Company’s activities are not associated with the risk<br />

of child labour or forced labour. Moreover, there have<br />

been no cases of violation of the rights of indigenous<br />

people in the history of our Company. In 2010, the Ethics<br />

Officer received no complaints on corruption.<br />

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