Marcom Electronic Components (UK) Ltd and its associated product divisions have set out our company code of conduct. It provides clarity to our stakeholders as to the regulatory requirements we adhere to.
Anti-Bribery
The company, nor its employees or business partners will not offer or receive any bribe or facilitation payment or enter into corrupt practices of any kind. Incidents that deviate from this policy should be reported to the company immediately. This also includes facilitation payments, gifts, hospitality and political contributions. This is especially important if a customer has a policy in place to restrict their employees from receiving such rewards.
Counterfeit products
The company is strongly against the sale of counterfeit products and only obtains products from approved business partners. We have a zero-tolerance approach to the use of counterfeit products.
Environmental Responsibilities
As the MEC Group are a sales, marketing and warehouse operation, their impact on the environment is very small. However, the company looks to reduce its environmental impact where possible such as using energy efficient lighting and the use of reusable packaging. Office waste is kept to a minimum and any waste collected is done so by a licensed waste collector.
Health and Safety
All Health and Safety legislation is followed and forms part of our ISO 9001 QMS. Copies of these controlled documents can be provided to customers upon request. All staff follow the guidance listed in our QMS, and any hazardous or unsafe situations are to be reported to top management asap.
Conflict Minerals
MEC advises that the overwhelming majority of products listed on their company websites do not contain any traces of conflict minerals. This is verified by product literature or SDS documents.
For products that do contain listed conflict minerals (such as ferrite beads and inductors), a CMRT reporting template has been submitted to the manufacturing site and filled in by them. Each returned document is reviewed by top management. We confirm that all conflict listed materials used to produce these products originate from smelters compliant to RMAP standards.
Anti-Slavery Policy
Our Ethical Charter sets out the high standards of behaviour to which we all work. We will not allow any form of slavery or human trafficking to take place in any part of our business. We will not use child labour (in line with the ILO Minimum Age Convention), nor will we use forced labour. Our policy is to not engage with organisations which use child labour or forced labour.
Sales Policy
– Our target markets are OEMs, distributors, and design and consultancy professionals operating in the electronic business.
– We do not generally sell to tradesmen or members of the public.
– The focus of our sales is UK, Europe, North America, India, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Sales to other locations will be decided on a project basis only.
-We will not knowingly supply to countries affected by US economic embargos including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Burma, Sudan and Syria. In addition to this we do not knowingly supply to Belarus, Ukraine or Russia.
– We supply to various sectors such as automotive, energy, medical, broadband and consumer electronics. Military applications will only be supported if the project is proved to originate from a NATO listed country.
-Whilst we can support applications from China involving sectors such as green energy and consumer electronics, we will not knowingly support any projects relating to national security such as military applications.
Charitable donations
The company on occasions makes charitable donations. These are only made to bona fide organisations and are not used in schemes to conceal bribery. No donations are to be made where it gives rise to a conflict of interest, or a charity which has links to a public official or any other person who is in a position to influence decisions relating to our business.