Fresenius Medical Care’s compliance program comprises of a code of business conduct that applies worldwide in every business section and combines our long-term interests with those of our various stakeholder. Co-instantaneous, the code of business conduct takes the applicable law and the highest standard of ethics into account.

Our compliance program has been approved by Fresenius Medical Care’s management board in 2000. Every employee of Fresenius Medical Care is expected to act according to the Code in his or her line of business. Therefore, considerable training and intensified internal communication are part of our compliance program to introduce and engross our Code of business conduct to every employee on a regular basis.

Already implemented in North America in the late 1990’s, the compliance program considers regional distinctions without contradicting this Code. Fresenius Medical Care periodically reviews and modifies its compliance program to ensure that its content and implementation procedures are in line with local legal requirements.