We have adopted specific policies to ensure fairness and prevent corruption in our relationships with public authorities, associations, political and trade union organisations, suppliers and partners.
In line with our Internal Control and Risk Management System, we have implemented a comprehensive set of rules and regulatory tools aimed at preventing and combating all possible forms of corruption: active and passive, direct and indirect, across the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Poste Italiane and the Group’s major companies have adopted ISO 37001:2016-certified anti-bribery management systems.
Within each certified company, an Anti-Corruption Function has been established, responsible for implementing and monitoring anti-corruption policies and regulations across the Group.
In particular, we do not provide any benefits or contributions, either directly or indirectly, to political parties, movements, or political and trade union organisations. We have also established clear principles and prohibitions regarding gifts and hospitality, facilitation payments, charitable donations and sponsorships, recruitment and hiring, as well as mergers, acquisitions and significant investments.
Anti-corruption policy
Specifically with regard to the activities carried out for the prevention of corruption, Poste Italiane SpA undertakes to satisfy the requirements of the Anti-Bribery Management System according to ISO 37001:2016 standard, and, together with the companies directly or indirectly controlled by it, carry out its activities through the following general principles:
- ensure conduct based on the criteria of fairness, loyalty and moral integrity that prohibits corruption;
- comply with all anti-bribery laws, rules and regulations;
- conduct its activities in such a way as not to commit any act of corruption in any form, whether direct or indirect, and not to facilitate or risk involvement in illegal situations, with public or private entities;
- provide a framework for the identification, review and achievement of anti-bribery objectives;
- encourage the reporting of suspicions in good faith or on the basis of a reasonable belief, without fear of retaliation and ensuring that no whistleblower is discriminated against with effects on working conditions linked to the reporting;
- prosecute any conduct that does not comply with the policy for the prevention of corruption through the application of the company disciplinary system;
- encourage every possible effort to prevent corruption by third parties connected to them, including joint ventures and entities upstream and downstream of the supply chain (e.g. agents, intermediaries, vendors, contractors, suppliers);
- ensure that the “Anti-Bribery Compliance Function” has the appropriate expertise, status, authority and independence to carry out its role of overseeing the design and implementation of the system, advising staff on anti-bribery matters, ensuring compliance with ISO 37001:2016 and reporting to Senior Management on the performance of the system.
Anti-corruption-related activities
Compliance with the general and specific anti-bribery & anti-corruption principles adopted by Poste Italiane must be guaranteed by the presence of a culture of integrity and transparency spread throughout the value chain. For this reason, Poste Italiane invests in training and information activities for its staff. In order to ensure a minimum level of knowledge on anti-bribery by its employees, Poste Italiane organizes a mandatory online and classroom training program for all staff on anti-bribery & anti-corruption principles and, in particular, on reporting mechanisms and on any significant changes to the anti-bribery & anti-corruption principles regulations and/or the regulatory system adopted.
As part of our anti-corruption efforts, from July 2023 to the end of 2025, we launched the online course “The Integrated Management System: The Rules of the Game”, which was attended by 103,000 employees.
