WHISTLEBLOWING FOPPIANI SHIPPING & LOGISTICS

Foppiani Shipping & Logistics Srl, in compliance with the provisions of the law, and with a view to ensuring fairness and transparency in the conduct of its business, has set up a computerized "Whistleblowing" system, available to anyone who wants to report situations relevant to the law or internal regulations.

How to make a report

Reporting may be done using the web channel, through the MYGOVERNANCE website suitable to ensure by means of information technology the maximum confidentiality of the identity of the reporter in compliance of the relevant provisions of Legislative Decree 24/2023.
They may proceed with the reporting:

• all employees of Foppiani Shipping & Logistics, regardless of their contractual classification;
• the self-employed workers, collaborators, freelancers, consultants and trainees of Foppiani Shipping & Logistics;
• partners and persons who hold within Foppiani Shipping & Logistics functions of administration, management, control supervision or representation.

The Report must be circumstantiated i.e. made with a sufficient degree of detail to enable the ascertainment of the facts reported and must relate to:

1. unlawful conduct relevant under Legislative Decree 231/2001 and violations of the Organization, Management and Control Models adopted by Foppiani Shipping & Logistics;
2. offenses that fall within the scope of application of the European Union or national acts listed in the Annex to Legislative Decree 24/2023 or domestic legislation that constitutes their implementation of the acts of European law listed in the Annex to Directive (EU) 2019/1937;
3. acts or omissions detrimental to the financial interests of the European Union protected under Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
4. acts or omissions concerning the internal market referred to in Article 26.2 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, including violations of competition and state aid rules and corporate taxes;
5. any conduct likely to frustrate the object or purpose of the provisions laid down in Union acts in the areas identified in (b), (c) and (d);
6. any other possible administrative, accounting, civil and criminal offenses of any nature other than the above.

Reports in application of Article 1 paragraph 2 of Legislative Decree 24/2023 may not concern:

• disputes, claims or requests for an interest of a personal nature of the reporting person that pertain exclusively to his or her individual working relationships, including with hierarchically superordinate figures;
• reports of violations already mandatorily regulated by the community acts listed in Part II of the Annex to Legislative Decree 24/2023;
• the matter of national security and defense.

The whistleblower may not be discriminated against as a result of the report in accordance with the provisions of Articles 16 and 17 of Legislative Decree 24/2023, if at the time of the report he/she has good reason to believe that the information about the reported violations is true and is among the relevant ones. On the contrary, the benefit of the protection of the reporter shall be forfeited when the criminal liability for the crimes of defamation or slander or, in any case, for crimes committed with the proposition of the report or when the civil liability of the reporter is established in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence. Foppiani Shipping & Logistics Srl reserves the right to act to protect its interests also in defense of the injured parties.
For the purpose of maximum protection of the guarantee of its confidentiality, in making the report the reporter shall:

• use only personal information devices;
• register on the online platform and make reports using a personal e-mail address.