Conduct towards public officials
No improper influence
We do not provide or offer anything of value to any public official to obtain, retain, or to secure business or improper advantage, or to improperly influence a public official’s actions or decisions.
Careful interactions
Gifts, hospitality, and other gratuities in interactions with public officials are handled extremely restrictively. Even the appearance of an influence must be avoided.
No facilitation payments
We also do not make facilitation payments to expedite routine and non-discretionary government actions, e. g., for issuing permits or handling of custom procedures. Such payments are prohibited at Bosch.
Public officials
The term “public official” can vary from country to country and is to be interpreted broadly in case of doubt.
In general, a public official is any official or employee of a government, authority, other governmental agency, or public international organizations, employees of state-owned enterprises, and persons who perform public functions on behalf of those bodies.
Officials, judges, prosecutors, ministers; in some countries also professors at public or state-approved universities or employees of public-sector enterprises in the field of public services (e.g., electricity, gas and water providers, hospitals).
