Fair Competition (Preventing the Violation of Anti-trust Laws)

The Mitsubishi Electric Group deeply regrets its experience of having received an administrative penalty for violating anti-trust laws in Japan and overseas. Out of this regret, we uphold anti-trust laws as one of the most important laws that we must abide by, and make ongoing Group-wide efforts to both prevent any recurrence of such incidents and prevent previous incidents from being forgotten. In addition to formulating and operating internal regulations that govern Mitsubishi Electric and its affiliated companies in Japan and overseas, we have also strengthened internal audits that specialize in anti-trust laws, and place importance on employee training through a combination of e-learning and classroom programs.

In Japan, in addition to providing e-learning to directors, officers, and employees of Mitsubishi Electric and domestic affiliated companies (Mitsubishi Electric participants in fiscal 2021: 14,824), we have continued to conduct practical training that reflects the characteristics of each business since fiscal 2014. Additionally, we provide education on anti-trust laws that focus on regional characteristics overseas in the combined form of e-learning programs and face-to-face education.

We will continue to make greater efforts to prevent similar incidents from occurring and previous incidents from being forgotten, through regular monitoring of the status of daily business activities and internal regulations, practical training that matches actual transaction situations, and other such initiatives.

Corruption Prevention (Preventing Bribery)

We engage in Group-wide initiatives to prevent bribery. The "Mitsubishi Electric Group Anti-Bribery Policy" that was established on April 1, 2017 reiterates to people in and outside the Group our policy that, among other things, our Group companies, their officers and employees do not offer bribes and do not pursue profits that can be realized only by offering bribes.

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Furthermore, we are conducting monitoring activities such as maintaining and enacting internal regulations for interactions with public officials inside and outside the country as a measure to prevent bribery.

In addition, we provide training to directors, officers and employees who regularly interact with public officials in the combined form of e-learning programs and face-to-face training (participants in e-learning programs in fiscal 2021: 25,371).

We will continue to enhance measures in each region, and take effective and efficient measures by selecting countries and transactions with particularly high risks of being involved in bribery, to respond to the expansion of our business at a global level.

Support and Responses to Political Activities

The Mitsubishi Electric Group provides support to political activities only upon full consideration of its social standing as defined in its Purpose and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations in each country.

For example, when Mitsubishi Electric makes a political donation in Japan, the Corporate Administration Division screens all cases in detail in accordance with the Political Fund Control Law, and ensures adherence to all internal procedures. Additionally, in public elections, we make every effort neither to infringe on the Public Offices Election Act nor deviate from sound social morals.

Export Control

To maintain international peace and security, Mitsubishi Electric has established and abides by the Corporate Security Export Control Regulation. Based on the regulation, all transactions are closely checked for any inclusion of export controlled items and security concerns related to destination, customers, end-use, and transaction conditions, and are strictly managed pursuant to relevant laws and regulations. Furthermore, to ensure all affiliated companies in Japan and overseas also take proper action in line with our policies, we distribute the Security Export Control Standard Regulations of the Mitsubishi Electric Group (in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Thai) to all affiliated companies, and provide guidance for the establishment of regulations, the development of a framework, employee training and internal audits in each company. In fiscal 2021, in Japan we provided e-learning courses that 38,415 Mitsubishi Electric employees and 34,364 employees of affiliated companies took and held online workshops for working-level personnel, under the circumstances of the spread of COVID-19 infections. For overseas affiliated companies, we have e-learning materials for the implementation of training programs in each company in major languages in Europe, America and Asia.

Disassociation with Anti-social Groups

The Mitsubishi Electric Group clearly sets forth in the following three provisions in the Mitsubishi Electric Group Code of Conduct and implements them.

1. We will not have any relationship with nor will we conduct business with any anti-social forces (including crime syndicates, terrorists, drug dealers). If any demand is made by anti-social forces, we refuse such demand.
2. We comply with applicable anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and anti-social forces laws and regulations.

Furthermore, in Japan, it is recommended to include an article on the "elimination of crime syndicates and other anti-social groups" in transaction contracts and an officer for preventing unreasonable demands, as stipulated in the Anti-Organized Crime Law, is assigned to each business office and affiliated company as a Group-wide measure against unreasonable demands from anti-social groups. If a transaction partner is found to be an anti-social group, we make every effort to promptly disassociate ourselves with the company with the cooperation of the police, external specialist institutions (the National Center for the Elimination of Boryokudan and the Special Violence Prevention Measures Association (Tokubouren) under the control of the Metropolitan Police Department, the National Center for the Elimination of Boryokudan, etc.), and lawyers.