Compliance

Compliance encompasses the observance and compliance with all regulations considered as the basis for integrity in business dealings: laws, internal instructions and guidelines. Deutsche Bahn stands for integrity, reliability and correctness.

Compliance understanding and principles

Compliance is an integral part of DB Group’s corporate and leadership culture. For us, compliance means ensuring our business activities comply with the relevant laws and regulations that apply to them.

The focus of our compliance work is on preventing corruption and other white-collar crime as well as systematically combating it. Mandatory compliance guidelines serve to protect DB Group and its employees and executives. Raising awareness among our employees and executives remains extremely important, as only risk-aware employees can recognize risks and successfully avoid or at least reduce them.

DB Group’s compliance work includes the early identification of compliance risks and the corresponding initiation of countermeasures. This also includes the implementation of compliance programs, continuous communication and process improvements.

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct forms the basis of good corporate governance. It defines standards and expectations for the daily actions of our employees and managers in international and national business transactions as well as customer contact. The managers have a role model function.

For successful and sustainable compliance work, it is also necessary to carefully select business partners and suppliers, to inform them about the DB Group's values ​​and to commit them to a common basis of values. Our expectations are formulated clearly and transparently using the DB Code of Conduct for Business Partners.

Compliance - 2025 Annual Report