Reports – WHISTLEBLOWING

Whistleblowing reporting information

B+B International S.r.l. (hereinafter the “Company”) has set up a “Whistleblowing” procedure (hereinafter also “Reporting” procedure), as provided for by (Italian) Legislative Decree 24/2023 with which Italy has “Implemented Directive (EU) 1937/2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and containing provisions concerning the protection of persons who report breaches of national laws”.

In the wake of the European Directive, (Italian) Legislative Decree 24/2023 seeks to strengthen the legal protection for people who report breaches of national or European Law, which harm the interests and/or integrity of the private entity to which they belong (or public entity), which they may become aware of during the course of their work.

Therefore, if an individual[1] becomes aware of administrative or accounting breaches, whether of a civil or criminal nature, they can promptly report them in detail to B+B International S.r.l.’s externally appointed Contact Person.

Reports to the Contact Person, which may also be made anonymously provided they are described in detail, can be made in the following ways:

WRITTEN REPORTING METHODS

• By means of a paper report (reporting form) inserted in three closed envelopes: the first with the whistleblower’s identification details together with a photocopy of their identification document; the second containing the report, the purpose being to separate the whistleblower’s identification details from the report itself. Both must then be placed inside a third sealed envelope bearing the wording “Confidential: for the REPORT MANAGER ONLY” on the outside. The report must then be sent by recorded delivery to Mr Giulio Mosetti, lawyer, Corso Italia 90/2, Gorizia. Once the report has been received, this will be confidentially registered by the Report Manager, including by means of an independent register.

ORAL REPORTING METHOD

• By requesting a direct meeting, at the reporting person’s request, with the Contact Person, to be emailed to odv.gm@studiolegalemc.com;
• by requesting a direct meeting, at the reporting person’s request, on +39 0481 34653.

Please note that the Whistleblower must not use this for purely personal purposes, for claims or retaliation, which, if anything, fall within the more general discipline of the employment/collaboration relationship or of relations with the hierarchical superior or with colleagues, for which reference should be made to the procedures falling within the competence of the corporate structures.

Therefore, whistleblowing reports of a personal nature of the whistleblower, which relate exclusively to the whistleblower’s individual work relationships, or which relate to his or her work relationships with hierarchically subordinate persons, are excluded.

For further information, please see the B+B Whistleblowing Policy at the following link:

[1] Employed workers; self-employed workers, holders of collaborative relationships, freelancers and consultants; volunteers and trainees, paid and unpaid; shareholders and persons with administrative, management, control, supervisory or representative functions (also de facto); facilitators (persons assisting the reporter in the reporting process); persons belonging to the same work environment as the reporter who have a stable emotional or family relationship with him/her; colleagues of the reporter who have a regular and ongoing relationship with him/her.