下Compliance with the Law for Prevention of Delays in Payment of Subcontracting Fees (hereafter referred to as the “Subcontracting Law”)

Ensuring thorough compliance through education

To ensure compliance with the Subcontracting Law, which may be thought of as the basis of responsibility in respect to subcontracts, Aisin provides thorough guidance to employees by holding regular Subcontracting Law Study Sessions inside the company. We also encourage active participation in public study sessions held outside the company in connection with the Subcontracting Law.

Requests to business partners

Requests for creating safe workplaces, ensuring quality, and thorough compliance as part of procurement policy

In order to encourage full cooperation with business partners, Aisin formulates procurement policy and holds explanatory meetings every year.

Our procurement policy for fiscal 2009 states that we should require our business partners to take every care to ensure safety in the workplace and to provide thorough quality that will win our customers' trust, and at the same time to adopt a rigorous attitude to compliance.

Dialogue with business partners

Ensuring that the opinions of our business partners are conveyed to senior management and are reflected in our business operations

By means of procurement policy explanation sessions, get-togethers among management staff and everyday activities, Aisin strives to incorporate the opinions of business partners and to reflect these opinions in our business operations by means of the following processes:
1) Consolidating the opinions of business partners
2) Drawing up plans for responding in each sector
3) Authorizing response measures applicable to the whole company through twice-yearly company audits
4) Checking on the effectiveness of response measures achieved by twice-yearly company audits