AStA Brochure

ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION A.St.A. WORLD-WIDE A.St.A. WORLD-WIDE’s vision is for an industry whose operations and products meet society’s environmental and social performance expectations. Any companies that share this goal are welcome to join A.St.A. WORLD-WIDE. A.St.A. WORLD-WIDE and its members have adopted the following principles of business ethics and made them a guide for themselves in their operations, manners and behaviours: • They have respect for human honour, human rights, constitutional and social values and are against any and all kinds of discrimination. • They are apt to improve democracy and to bring into being any democratic rights with the sense of responsibility in accordance with modern legal principles in the business life. • They are conscious of joint responsibility in order to protect the equilibrium in the nature and to ensure the sustainability thereof and observe the environmental impact in their operations. • They consider goodwill and business ethics as an indispensable principle accompanying their operations in their business relationships and deem it their duty to fight any bribery and irregularity. • They consider having responsibility towards the society to be a virtue and a value which enriches their operations. 2