At the OMRON Group, a total of 32,456 people are working in Japan and four regions around the world. To demonstrate fairness and integrity in all corporate activities and individual employees' behavior throughout the world, OMRON is promoting compliance in each region through distribution of the Corporate Ethics Guidelines and monitoring of compliance status.

In fiscal 2007, OMRON will publish regional versions of the CSR Practice Guidelines, which are based on and upgraded from the Corporate Ethics Guidelines (see pg. 11 'CSR Management and Activities'). Continued promotion of compliance training and monitoring is also planned.

North America

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  Blake Thatcher
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  Bill Abbott

Compliance officers are in placeat each North American Group company.

In fiscal 2006, compliance monitoring for Group companies continued, while awareness of the whistle blower hotline was enhanced, resulting in 11 hotline contacts received.

China

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  Fumihiro Matsuzaki
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  Dai Ogihara

Compliance and maintenance of ethical standards are among the key CSR issues for OMRON in Greater China ( see pg. 13 'CSR Management and Activities'). In fiscal 2006, corporate ethics officers were assigned at each Group company,and the first promotion conference was held in Shanghai. In addition to manager training, compliance monitoring continued with a focus on observing compliance with three important laws related to customs, bribery and operations falling outside each company's scope of business.

Europe

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  Patrick Duregger

Under the leadership of OMRON Europe's Risk Management Committee, compliance auditing and manager training have been conducted on a regular basis to strengthen compliance. Establishment of a contact channel to work in collaboration with the committee is now underway along with the improvement of the compliance promotion system. Managers in charge of legal and regulatory matters were assigned to ensure strict observance of environmental and other regulations.

Asia-Pacific

Taking into consideration the language and cultural diversity in the region, the Corporate Ethics Guidelines have been translated into five different languages.* Efforts are focused on education, training and monitoring with the aim of strengthening understanding of corporate ethics and compliance among all employees through the distribution of guidelines and creation of a system to ensure strict legal observance.

*Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay and Tamil