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Governance & Management


Our Board of Directors is responsible for supervising the company’s senior management team, which in turn oversees the overall operations of CEMEX. Our Chief Executive Officer chairs the Board, which comprises 15 directors, nine of whom qualify as independent.

Governance policies and practices, including our management team

Responsibility for Sustainability at CEMEX

We communicate our expectations and set global standards through company-wide policies, including our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, Health and Safety, Environmental, Biodiversity, Anti-bribery, and Antitrust.

CEMEX also actively follows public policy developments in many of the countries and regions in which it operates, and advocates in support of its business and sustainability priorities. Current priorities include: environmental protection, climate change, carbon markets, sustainable construction, economic policies and financing models that encourage investment in sustainable infrastructure.

In 2010 we published six position papers, all of which are available on our website, that explain CEMEX’s position on:

  • Climate Change
  • Alternative Fuels
  • Market Mechanisms for Mitigating Climate Change
  • Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Environmental Management and Biodiversity
  • and Sustainable Construction

Managing ethics and compliance issues through ETHOS

ETHOS is a company-wide effort to raise awareness of ethics and compliance issues and improve and more fully integrate procedures to detect, manage, and reduce ethics and compliance risks. It includes training for individuals, employee perception surveys, communication campaigns on specific topics, ETHOS@Plaza (the company’s employee intranet), and the ETHOSline reporting channel. Reports of violations of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct or policies can be made directly to the Audit Committee, Global Ethics Committee, Legal Department, local Ethics Committee, local Human Resources Department, or immediate supervisors. The ethics committees received 184 reports during 2010; 88%have been investigated and resolved. Only 4 cases were found to have been substantiated, and appropriate disciplinary action has been carried out in each case.

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