3M Compliance & Business Conduct Ethics Reporting Service
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Important Notice

Use of EthicsPoint

Use of this EthicsPoint reporting tool is entirely voluntary. You are encouraged to identify yourself when reporting a concern. Be advised that under 3M's Employee Obligations and Reporting Principle, 3M prohibits retaliation against anyone who raises a business conduct concern in good faith or cooperates in a company investigation. The company will not permit any sanction against you for raising a good-faith concern regardless of whether the underlying facts prove to be correct or result in any disciplinary action.

In addition to or instead of EthicsPoint, you may also direct your report:

  • to your management
  • to your assigned local compliance contact: conformite-france@mmm.com
  • to the Compliance and Business Conduct Department:

    3M Compliance and Business Conduct Department
    220-11-W-09, 3M Center
    3M Company
    Saint Paul, MN 55144-1000

In case of a concern regarding accounting, financial reporting, internal accounting controls or auditing, you may also contact:

General Auditor
3M Corporate Auditing Department
224-06-N-11, 3M Center Saint Paul, MN 55144-1000

Important: Due to the local laws of your country, you may make a report using this EthicsPoint system concerning only serious acts or crimes related to:

  • Financial Issues – including falsification of a financial document or report, making false financial claims, inaccurate financial disclosures, insider trading, or questionable practices relating to internal financial controls;
  • Auditing and Accounting – including accounting, auditing or internal financial controls such as tax evasion, misstatement of revenues, expenses, assets, or wrongful transactions;
  • Banking – including unethical or questionable banking practices such as money laundering, bank fraud, embezzlement, fabricating or falsifying or forging any banking documents or records;
  • Anti-Bribery – including influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements, giving items that could be interpreted as an effort to improperly influence a business relationship or decision.
  • Anti-Competition – including communication or activities with customers or competitors related to market share, price fixing, boycotting, restrictions on resellers, or allocating customers.

What Happens to Your Report when you submit it through EthicsPoint

Once you submit your report through EthicsPoint, EthicsPoint will notify 3M. Your report will be reviewed by a 3M Compliance and Business Conduct employee in the United States to ensure that the nature and content of your report may be processed through this EthicsPoint System based on applicable law.

If your report is one that cannot legally be processed through EthicsPoint, you will be contacted and informed of other methods for addressing your concern and your report will be deleted from this system to the extent required by applicable law.

If in scope, your EthicsPoint report will be forwarded to your 3M local Compliance and Business Conduct contact who will, if appropriate, conduct any necessary investigation in collaboration with the 3M Compliance and Business Conduct colleagues in the U.S.

You will be able to monitor progress on your report by contacting the 3M Business Conduct Helpline or by clicking the Follow Up on Report link on the EthicsPoint website.

Confidential Handling of Your Report

Information you submit will be treated confidentially by those handling your report, local compliance contact and those administering this system. Your personally identified information shall remain confidential to any other person participating in the reporting or investigation process.

Unless required by law, other information in the database will only be reviewed and used by your local compliance contact and individuals who need to know this information in order to help investigate your report, manage the investigation process or to administer the EthicsPoint system. These individuals may include 3M employees in Compliance and Business Conduct, Legal Affairs, Human Resources, IT Security and Integrity, Corporate Security, Corporate Auditing or other management functions, as well as trusted service providers under agreement with 3M. These individuals may be located in the United States or other locations.

All the information you submit will be stored on the EthicsPoint database hosted by EthicsPoint, a 3M processor based in the United States. EthicsPoint follows the Safe Harbor Principles for data protection, which establishes a legal standard of data protection equivalent to the European Union. In addition, 3M’s agreement with EthicsPoint requires EthicsPoint to adequately secure your information and use it only for authorized purposes.

Any personal information in your report will be deleted from the database by 3M within two (2) months after completion of the investigation, or, in the case of a judicial action, will be deleted within 2 months after the conclusion of the legal proceeding. Under EU data protection laws, you have a right to request access to your personal data and also to have this data corrected if the information is inaccurate. For any request, please send an email to your local compliance contact: conformite-france@mmm.com. Individuals that may be identified in your report shall be informed of the investigation process (excluding your identification) as well as of their rights after report submission. This notification may, however, be delayed in order to prevent any destruction of data.

Special warning about reliability of Your Report

Please be aware that the information you supply about yourself, your colleagues, or any aspect of 3M’s operations may result in actions or decisions that may affect others. We ask you to provide only information that, to the best of your knowledge, is correct. You will not be sanctioned for submitting information in good faith, even if it turns out to be inaccurate. However, if you knowingly provide false or misleading information, it may result in disciplinary or judicial action.

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