Smart Solu­tions for a sus­tain­able fu­ture

Re­spect for human rights and in­ter­na­tional eth­ical stand­ards

Our Code of Con­duct re­quires all em­ploy­ees of the ista Group to com­mit to com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tional human rights, la­bour, anti-​corruption and data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. These in­clude the UN De­clar­a­tion of Human Rights, the In­ter­na­tional La­bour Or­gan­iz­a­tion's (ILO) De­clar­a­tion of Prin­ciples and the UN Con­ven­tion against Cor­rup­tion. Our com­pli­ance man­age­ment sys­tem helps us to en­sure that all re­quire­ments are met through­out the Group. The ef­fect­ive­ness of com­pli­ance man­age­ment at ista has been of­fi­cially cer­ti­fied by the In­sti­tute for Cor­por­ate Gov­ernance in the Ger­man Real Es­tate In­dustry (ICG). Our Sup­plier Code con­tains fun­da­mental en­vir­on­mental, so­cial and gov­ernance stand­ards that we re­quire our sup­pli­ers through­out the world to com­ply with. These also in­clude the ILO's De­clar­a­tion of Prin­ciples as well as the Prin­ciples of the UN Global Com­pact, the prin­ciples of the Or­gan­isa­tion for Eco­nomic Co­oper­a­tion and De­vel­op­ment (OECD) and the UK Mod­ern Slavery Act.

Con­tri­bu­tions to na­tional and in­ter­na­tional cli­mate and en­vir­on­mental policy

• Cli­mate pro­tec­tion: We con­trib­ute in par­tic­u­lar to greater en­ergy ef­fi­ciency and raise the con­sumer's aware­ness of greater cli­mate pro­tec­tion in build­ings. The re­vised European En­ergy Ef­fi­ciency Dir­ect­ive and its im­ple­ment­a­tion in the EU mem­ber states set the legal frame­work for these activ­it­ies. With our radio tech­no­logy and of­fer­ings such our Eco­Trend app, we offer our cus­tom­ers tailored solu­tions so they have easy and con­veni­ent ways of in­form­ing their ten­ants about their monthly en­ergy con­sump­tion and so cre­ate in­cent­ives to save en­ergy and costs.
• Re­source ef­fi­ciency and cir­cu­lar eco­nomy: A sus­tain­able eco­nomy that is fit for the fu­ture is a cir­cu­lar eco­nomy. We are con­vinced of that. We sup­port the goals of the European Cir­cu­lar Eco­nomy Ac­tion Plan and na­tional policies such as the Ger­man Re­source Ef­fi­ciency Pro­gramme – through in­nov­a­tions in device design, high con­veni­ence, a long li­fe­cycle of our products and con­tinu­ous im­prove­ments in the reuse of ma­ter­i­als from our old devices.
• Human rights and en­vir­on­mental stand­ards in global sup­ply chains: We wel­come the ini­ti­at­ives at Ger­man and European levels that re­quire com­pan­ies not only to re­spect human rights but also en­sure en­vir­on­mental stand­ards along the sup­ply chain. These in­clude the UN De­clar­a­tion of Human Rights, the In­ter­na­tional La­bour Or­gan­iz­a­tion's (ILO)De­clar­a­tion of Prin­ciples and the UN Con­ven­tion against Cor­rup­tion.With our meas­ures for sus­tain­able sup­plier man­age­ment, we have been com­mit­ted to ful­filling this re­spons­ib­il­ity for many years.