Place strong governance at the core of our activities
Managing our business with integrity, and maintaining compliance with the highest ethical standards contributes to lasting prosperity. It demonstrates that we care for all our stakeholders in every country where we operate.

We have policy and procedures in place to ensure compliance with corporate ethical strategy and European and national regulations. This includes development of sustainability, ethics and human rights awareness and performance throughout our value.
Ethics and Anti-corruption Compliance
Given our role as a trusted part of the defence community, MBDA is committed to comply with the law, and to fight corruption. Our Group applies the highest ethical standards in all the countries where we operate, and we have zero tolerance to any breach of our Code of Ethics and anti-corruption programme, including mandated trainings for employees.
Consolidated ESG and Sustainability Governance throughout Our Group
We have established under the responsibility of the Group General Secretary an ESG directorate and an ESG Committee. The ESG directorate defines and steers the Group ESG strategy, monitors specific KPIs, and promotes the ESG culture throughout the company.
Individual national companies are able to build on this approach. This is so they can address specific national legislation and regulation and customer needs, like for example the UK government procurement policy notices around social value and carbon reduction, the Italian Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, the 2017 law related to duty of due care in France, or the German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains.
Raise ESG and Sustainability Awareness and Performance throughout Our Supply Chain
To be truly effective, our ESG and sustainability vision cannot stop at our door. We develop strong ties with small- and medium-sized businesses, and promote ethics and responsibility in our partnerships. 2022 saw the birth of our Sustainable Supply Chain Charter. We are strengthening our supplier due-diligence and onboarding process. Our Procurement Team is being trained on ESG and sustainability topics, in particular human rights.

Linking ESG and Sustainability to Pay
We have introduced ESG and sustainability pay incentives to drive positive behaviour and support change. KPIs related to CO2 emissions, safety and gender equality are integrated as long-term incentives for all Executive Committee members.
We will extend these incentives more widely in the coming years.
See our ESG and sustainability reports and our Integrity procedures
Find all documents MBDA publishes on various ESG and sustainability topics, and Integrity procedures.
