About Model Code of Conduct

The Confederation of Indian Industry considers "Ethical Practices in Business Dealings" to be critical for the development and growth of the industry in our country.

The CII Task Force on Integrity and Transparency in Governance has comprehensive guidelines for a "Model Code of Conduct for Business Ethics", and CII is hopeful that all members including the SME's would feel comfortable about adopting these guidelines.

The attached Code of conduct contains the basic principles of doing business ethically, which involves adoption of policies and procedures intended to achieve ethical business practices.

CII sees the adoption of this simplified code as a landmark step in inculcating a culture of ethics and good practices in corporates. We have plans to launch a programme/workshop that will enable companies to build competence in compliance and also propose to have a code on Good Corporate Citizenship for leading organizations that seek to go beyond compliance, to systemically contributing to national development goals.

A separate focus is to keep working with the Government to remove discretion in decision making and ambiguity in notifications such that opportunity for ethical conflict is minimised.

CII recognizes that all our members are, at different points in this journey and each company will proceed down this journey at its own pace.

Members could confirm their adoption of the CII Model Code of Conduct by using the link below.

To inspire all to join the journey towards adopting the Model Code of Conduct in Business Practices, we will add the name of the companies that have adopted the Code on our website.

Model of Code Of Conduct
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