Translation of "Geschäftsverhalten" in English

Responsible marketing We believe in upholding high standards of corporate behaviour.

Lawful and ethical conduct is a vital foundation of KWS’ business activity.

Our many initiatives in accordance with ethical business and the Code of Conduct are testaments to this.

This is done by using the SA8000 standard, which is a standard for how to do business responsibly.

Now individual entrepreneurs can conduct business qualitatively differently, getting a full broadband Internet access.

VÍTKOVICE STEEL, a.s. has changed its behavior in the area of business activities.

No business behaviour can be designed from scratch.

FINMA will make a sustainable positive impact on the conduct of financial institutions.

In fact, through doing good business we create considerable value.

Businesses trading fairly will not have to change the way they do business.

Wanadoo suffered substantial losses up to the end of 2002 as a result of this practice.

Many politicians are now voicing their concerns about the business practices of the Albert Heijn and Jumbo supermarket chains.

We are committed to conducting business in an honest, fair and transparent way.

We should support, in this context, a revision of the existing legislation on financial instruments, which should provide for more transparent trading and minimum thresholds for the operators allowed to trade on these markets.

The Commission has found that the arrangements at the global and European levels together were part of an overall scheme which laid down the lines of action in the EEA of the members of the cartel and restricted their individual commercial conduct in order to pursue a single anti-competitive economic aim, namely the distortion of normal competitive conditions in the EEA for choline chloride.

A general clause based on the requirement of fair commercial behaviour would seem better suited to this than the prohibition of misleading and deceptive practices, provided it is given a precise and workable definition.

We therefore welcome the line taken by the Commission as regards the need for a global approach to the issue which, on the one hand, seeks to set out obligations, starting with fair commercial behaviour, and, on the other hand, is based on objective criteria in order to avoid different interpretations by the Member States.

Now there is a whole paraphernalia of “Internal Justice Services”: the Respectful Workplace Advisers, an Office of Mediation (presumably an Office of Meditation will follow), Peer Review panels, an Office of Ethics and Business Conduct, and an entire Integrity Vice-Presidency.

Apart from this, the revision maintains the Commission's existing scepticism towards behavioural remedies, i.e. commitments merely to refrain from certain commercial behaviour.

As regards a possible future situation, the interviewed firms were asked what they considered would be the effect on their customers’ trade patterns if the price of the service rendered locally were to be increased by a specified percentage or if the price for the same service offered by firms located in the neighbouring Nordic countries were to be increased.

These shortcomings have an impact on commercial behaviour which may prevent the most effective business decisions from being taken.

Moreover, it also seems that during the past period, some operators have based their commercial conduct on the assumption that castings of ductile iron were not covered by the anti-dumping duty.

With regard to the discount on airport charges related to the increase in frequencies, Ryanair argued that this was normal commercial behaviour applied in all industries.

In particular, the Commission explored commitments with the parties which would have entailed smaller divestments in the aerospace industry than originally envisaged by the parties, complemented, however, by a structural commitment to modify the commercial behaviour of GECAS, without puttting in question the control by GE.

Legal responsibility for the infringement and the related fine can be imputed to both the subsidiary that actually participated in the cartel and the parent company or companies that exercised decisive influence over the commercial behaviour of that subsidiary at the relevant time."

The Commission also investigated whether the operation would increase the ability and incentive of suppliers of acetone and phenol to coordinate their business conduct to the detriment of their consumers.