Together4Integrity

With around 130 measures, the T4I programme promotes rule-compliant conduct and integrity throughout the Volkswagen Group worldwide. This programme includes comprehensive tools, communication and participation formats. For example, it supports the Audi Code of Conduct applicable to all employees, the implementation of Compliance Management Systems for the environment and the product, and the Whistleblowing System with the associated training measures.

The individual and sustainable implementation of this programme will be undertaken in the companies of the Volkswagen Group as planned and on their own responsibility until 2025. Since 2018, AUDI AG has rolled out the T4I programme in more than 40 of its Audi Group subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.

This consistently supports robust systems and processes for compliance and integrity risk management.

Integrity and compliance are firmly anchored in the strategy of Audi. That is also reflected in the fact that our board members have personally committed to implementing T4I.

The methodological design of T4I follows the five fundamental and recognised principles of the international Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI):

• Strategy
• Risk management
• Acting with integrity
• A culture of open discussion
• Assumption of responsibility, even in the event of misconduct

There is a considerable focus on a change in culture: it is about getting through to people and strengthening their own drive to act with integrity. To that end, cooperation between all employees on an equal footing should be facilitated, room for creativity given, and value-oriented action as well as openly dealing with mistakes permitted and encouraged. The seven Volkswagen Group principles provide the basis for this initiative. These principles define how we want to work together at Audi and in the Group. They supplement the Code of Conduct, which sets out the general rules of conduct with regard to compliance with laws and internal guidelines, and for acting with integrity.