In another recognition of the work for continuous improvement of governance and integrity undertaken in recent years, OEC - Engenharia e Construção received on Tuesday (12/13), in a ceremony held at the Ministry of Infrastructure, in Brasília, the Infra+ Integrity Seal. The Federal Executive’s initiative rewards companies in the infrastructure sector that adopt good practices in corporate governance, as well as develop and encourage ethical behavior, transparency actions, and fraud and corruption prevention.

To obtain the Seal, OEC underwent a careful technical analysis of the initiatives adopted internally by the company based on evidence, documents, experience cases, and certificates, in a process that took approximately five months.

According to Rafael Mendes, director of Risk Management and Integrity at Novonor and OEC, the Infra+ Integrity Seal adds more credibility to the OEC brand in the market and confirms the company’s commitment to transforming the infrastructure sector, prioritizing transparency and ethics in business and in relations with all stakeholders.

“World-class corporate governance systems and effective integrity programs require senior management commitment, investment, time and discipline to mature. More than complying with codes, policies, processes, and compliance structures, the efforts to nurture ethics and integrity as values that guide our conduct on a daily basis are collective, intense, and constant. These are some of the lessons we have learned on the transformation journey our company has embraced over the past seven years,” added Mendes.

The attestation of good corporate practices issued by the Federal Government adds to a series of other recognitions received by the OEC throughout 2022. In October, the World Bank’s Annual Report on the Sanctions System mentioned

the construction company as an “example of a company focused on compliance actions” with a comprehensive program in line with the principles defined in the World Bank’s guidelines. In addition, the World Bank pointed out that the integrity program developed by the company and cooperation with national and international control authorities were instrumental in removing the group’s companies from the sanctions list, on which they had figured since 2019. Still during 2022, to these recognitions we can add the ISO 37001 certification (anti-bribery management), obtained by the OEC for its global operations, the successful completion of the monitoring of the OEC integrity program by the CGU, the company’s association with the IBGC, which also assessed the OEC’s governance and integrity measures, the company’s participation as a signatory of the Business Pact for Integrity and Against Corruption, an initiative of the Ethos Institute, its participation in the MISEC (Movement for Integrity in the Engineering and Construction Sector), among other actions and initiatives.

Anti-Corruption Radar - The Infra+ Integrity Seal is the seventh pillar of the Anti-Corruption Radar program, created by MInfra, in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the Office of the Attorney General (AGU), and the Federal Police (PF), to improve public management and curb misconduct and misuse of public resources. Since its creation in 2019, the program conducted more than 800 integrity analyses and forwarded more than 600 complaints to the police authorities and control agencies.