Create an anti-corruption policy and training

ESRS G1-3 requires both a description of your policies against corruption and bribery and evidence of how you train employees and managers on them. You record both in preeco | nachhaltigkeit under “Governance > Anti-Corruption”: first the policy, then the training linked to it, including its completion rate.

Prerequisites

• At least one active reporting period is created for the team.
• You are logged in to your team and have the administrator role.
• A training can only be linked to a policy once that policy is active – so create the policy first.

Create the anti-corruption policy

1. Open “Governance > Anti-Corruption”.
2. In the “Anti-Corruption Policies” section, click “+ New Policy” at the top right. The “New Anti-Corruption Policy” side dialog opens.
3. Complete the “General” section: “Title”, “Version” (for example 1.0), “Scope” (Global, Regional or Entity-level, prefilled with Global) and “Effective date” are mandatory fields.
4. Optionally add the “Review date” – it must be after the effective date – and “Approved by” for the approving person or body.
5. In the “Scope” section, select the covered subject areas using the checkboxes “Bribery”, “Facilitation payments”, “Gifts & Hospitality” and “Conflicts of interest”. At least one must be enabled before activation.
6. If needed, use the “Description” section to add a “Whistleblower reference” (reference link or document ID) and a “Description” of the policy.
7. Click “Create”. “Cancel” closes the dialog without saving.

After saving, the confirmation “Policy created successfully.” appears and the policy is listed in the “Anti-Corruption Policies” table with the status “Draft”. Only once it is activated does it count towards the “Active Policies” metric on the overview.

Create the training and evidence coverage

1. On the same page, click “+ New Training” at the top right of the “Anti-Corruption Training” section. The “New Anti-Corruption Training” side dialog opens.
2. Complete the “General” section: “Title”, “Training date”, “Training type” (Online, In person, Workshop, Seminar, E-learning, Certification) and “Target group” (Board, Senior management, Management, All employees, High-risk roles, Third parties) are mandatory fields.
3. Switch on “Mandatory” if attending the training is compulsory.
4. In the “Scope” section, enter the mandatory figures “Total invited” and “Completed”. preeco | nachhaltigkeit calculates the completion rate automatically from these two numbers.
5. Optionally add the “Region”, choose the matching active policy under “Linked policy” and add “Notes”.
6. Click “Create” (or “Cancel”).

After saving, the confirmation “Training created successfully.” appears and the training is listed in the “Anti-Corruption Training” table with title, target group, completion rate and mandatory status.

What happens next

• The completion rate feeds into the “Average training completion rate” metric on the overview page.
• Active policies and training programs are included in the generated ESRS G1 report document.
• Whether the sub-topic of corruption and bribery is subject to disclosure at all is determined by your double materiality assessment for ESRS G1.

Practical tip: create the policy as a draft first and activate it only once all subject areas in its scope have been reviewed – after activation it can no longer be edited. Then link every training to the corresponding active policy: this creates a direct reference on the detail page that documents the connection between policy and training measure for auditors.