Compliance Roundtable

Event Details

Info for New Members - About Compliance Roundtables

The roundtable series aims for Executives and Managers dealing with topics related to compliance, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and EHS ((Environment, Health, Safety) from VDMA members in China. During this roundtable we are aiming to inform about the current state of these two categories. What are commonalities and what are differences? Do they complete each other, or must they be treated as two completely different systems?

In cooperation with selected industrial and business experts, the target is to provide VDMA members with concerns and need strategic guidance for their operations in China. During the event, you will have this unique opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas with your peers and learn from the experts and each other.

The topic of this roundtable is to identify the commonalities and differences between ESG and EHS and how machinery companies in China are dealing with it.

Topic1:ESG: A new dimension of compliance?!

Introduction & Outline

Companies and their managers are confronted with a new development in the field of compliance, called ESG compliance. This new type of compliance has raised many questions and uncertainties among operators about its scope and applicability worldwide: Where does this new compliance come from? What are its drivers? How does it affect the businesses of todayand tomorrow? What needs to be done from a management perspective? Therefore, we will take the time to outline and discuss the current state of ESG compliance and identify key success factors, especially with regards to digital success factors.

The Why
The What
The How

Topic2: ESG laws and regulations in China - what investors need to know?

Introduction & Outline

After focusing on economic development in the past decades, the Chinese government started to introduce and now emphasizes the concept of sustainable development, for which the new ESG regulations and standards are crucial. Foreign invested companies in China shall stay informed on the valid ESG laws and regulations in order to safeguard ESG compliance and their ESG ratings.

Overview of the ESG-related laws and regulations as well as voluntary standards companies in China must know to ensure ESG-compliance and ESG rating of their businesses;
Introduction of ESG-related obligations and liabilities of companies and their management;
China's ESG-reporting guidance in a global context.

Topic3: ESH management thinking for small and medium-sized machinery companies

Introduction & Outline

ESH managers know that in recent years the regulators have become more and more demanding on ESH work, but with so much on their plate, where do they start? How can we simplify and organize our work? What kind of mindset should ESH managers have when dealing with government inspections externally and ensuring safe plant operations internally?

A short introduction of FETTE compacting (China)
Key to environmental protection work - Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Accident Response Plan
Key to work safety management – Work Safety Standardization
Key to occupational health management - Evaluation of the effectiveness of occupational disease hazard control

Agenda

Speakers

Dominik Nowak advises international projects and partners at Eticor (formerly Martin Mantz Compliance Solutions) concerning the digitization of compliance. As managing director of Eticor in the People's Republic of China and contact person for global partners, he is experiencing increasing complexity, especially with regards to country-specific requirements and organizational compliance issues.

Dominik Nowak has professional experience as managing director, project manager, manager, advisory board and consultant (industries among others: industry services, consulting, electrical engineering, wind power, software, mechanical engineering, and trade) in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa, which have shaped his view on business as well as cultural challenges until today.

He completed his university degrees in Germany (M.A.) and in New Zealand (MBA) with a focus on sustainable business development.

Ondrej Zapletal is a legal advisor at Burkardt & Partner in Shanghai. He studied PRC Civil and Commercial Law at the Shanghai East China University of Political Science and Law and advises foreign companies on their investments and business in the PRC. His focus lies mainly on the Chinese commercial law.