Ethics Committee

Created in 2001, the six-member Ethics Committee reports directly to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. It is responsible for establishing conditions to help employees embrace the Code of Conduct and for making sure it is properly applied. To this end, the Committee has devised an ethics process allowing it to verify that employees at each facility, subsidiary and business are familiar with the Code of Conduct, understand its principles and apply them. It also provides individual feedback and assistance.

Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility Department

Created in 2008, the Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility Department reports to Legal Affairs.

Besides an advisory role, it supervises the management of legal issues associated with business integrity, human rights, the environment, industrial safety and sustainable development, as well as covering social issues in general.

The department is also tasked with deploying programs to foster compliance with anti-corruption laws and uphold human rights. In this role, it supports the ethics process and closely coordinates its actions with the work of the Ethics Committee.

Corporate Audit Department

Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, the Corporate Audit Department is chiefly responsible for providing reasonable assurance to senior management and the Board of Directors’ Audit Committee that Total operates in accordance with our internal control standards and procedures and our core ethical principles.

Corporate Business Integrity Coordinating Committee

The Corporate Business Integrity Coordinating Committee , replacing the former Anti-Fraud Working Group, was created in 2010. This Committee is composed of head officers of the following Corporate functions: Ethics Committee, Audit and Internal Control, Legal Affairs – Compliance, Security, Finance and Human Resources and the Corporate Fraud Risk Coordinator. It coordinates and follows up the implementation of the programs and initiatives to prevent, detect and deal with all types of business integrity risks.

The Corporate Business Integrity Coordinating Committee is in charge of following in particular the progress of actions developed throughout the Group by the Anti-Corruption Compliance Committee for anti-corruption initiatives, and by the Fraud Risk Coordination for other types of fraud.

Total University

Total University is an arm of the Corporate Training Department, which is part of Corporate Human Resources. Its primary vocation is to offer opportunities for discussion and reflection on contemporary issues related to our businesses and operations. Its programs consist of classes, conferences and lectures held in France and worldwide, designed to promote a fertile mix of ideas and a cross-disciplinary approach to economics, history, sociology and science.

Total University also advances Total’s educational and academic relations initiatives through the Total Summer School and Total Energy and Education Seminar programs for students and professors from around the world

It offers dedicated in-house programs in the fields of ethics, the environment, industrial safety and corporate social responsibility, which reach several thousand people each year.