AISIN established the AISIN Charter of Corporate Behavior, which outlines its fundamental management stance for fulfilling its social responsibilities as a good corporate citizen. With the goal of ensuring proper conduct in all corporate activities as a member of society, AISIN is strengthening its compliance while undertaking a host of other measures that include setting up the Business Ethics Committee and formulating the Business Ethics Guidelines, aimed at ensuring that employees adhere to laws and social rules and manners, as well as upgrading the education and training in legal affairs and establishing in-house and external consultation counters. In fiscal 2007, we designated July as the month dedicated toward strengthening business ethics, with worksite discussions, lectures and other activities to firmly establish and promote widespread compliance.

To comply with the Personal Information Protection Act enacted in Japan as of April 2005, AISIN created the Personal Information Protection Policy outlining the protection of the personal information of customers, business partners and employees acquired over the course of daily business operations. This policy is aiding in building a set of rules and structure for employees to comply with laws and other regulations regarding personal information.

 

Progress in Implementing Corporate Ethics

Cognizant of its role as a member of society, AISIN will fulfill its economic responsibilities as a company as well as its social responsibilities to implement the following guidelines.

1. Maintain and improve the AISIN Charter of Corporate Behavior and Business Ethics Guidelines
2. Disseminate top management's basic stance internally and externally and promote information disclosure of concrete measures being undertaken
3. Develop a Companywide framework for implementing measures
4. Develop and augment consultation section
5. Implement and upgrade education and training
6. Achieve penetration of corporate conduct and business ethics and check and evaluate progress of penetration

AISIN is working to ensure that every employee at both Group and affiliated companies is fully cognizant of a sense of ethics, and is chiefly involved in establishing corporate conduct and business ethics for the Group together with developing and enhancing the subsequent framework to support such efforts.