Organisation and management model

The api Group companies have adopted their own Organisation, Management and Control Model in execution of Legislative Decree 231/2001 et seq. in order to ensure the correctness  and transparency of company activities as well as to prevent criminal conduct, pursuant to the law. 

This Legislative Decree establishes that a company can be held liable, and consequently sanctioned, in relation to certain crimes outlined by the legislature that were committed or attempted in the interest or to the advantage of the company.

Relevant offences can be committed not only by persons belonging to the company staff, for example employees, top management, directors but also by external stakeholders or customers, suppliers and consultants.

The company is excluded from liability if it has adopted and effectively implemented Organisation, Management and Control Models suitable for preventing offences, and if it has established a Body (Supervisory Body) in charge of supervising the functioning and observance of the models.

Each Group company with an Organisation, Management and Control Model has appointed its own Supervisory Body, which is designed to:

• be independent and in a third party position with respect to those whom it will have to supervise;
• be endowed with autonomous powers of initiative and control;
• have financial independence;
• be free of any operational duties;
• ensure continuity of action;
• meet the professionalism requirements described above;
• be able to take advantage of a direct communication channel with top management.