Deutsche Telekom has made an express commitment to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011, and it has enshrined these principles in its Code of Human Rights & Social Principles.

Compliance Risk Assessment
In 2022, we added human-rights-oriented and environmentally oriented risk assessment to our annual Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA). In the 2022 financial year, a total of 68 units (61 companies and seven Group Headquarters units; not including T-Mobile US) took part in human-rights-oriented risk assessment. This corresponds to a coverage rate of 91 percent (in terms of full-time equivalents (FTE )) of our fully consolidated companies. 56 units confirmed “medium to high relevance” of human rights topics for their business activities. Two national companies conceded that they had not yet announced the Group-wide Code of Human Rights & Social Principles policy statement within their companies. One of the two companies has since initiated measures to enshrine the regulation throughout its operations, in a process that is to be completed in 2023. At the other of the two companies, the need for such measures was eliminated when it was converted, under company law, and in February 2023, into a non-controlling interest. In addition, T-Mobile US uses a different system for its risk assessment.

Human-rights-related tip-offs
In 2022, we received five human-rights-related tip-offs through our Contact Point for Human Rights, our “TellMe” whistleblower system, and our reviews of compliance with our “Employee Relations Policy”.

Assessments & Review

• In 2022, a “Human Rights Risk Assessment” was carried out at three companies, located in Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, of Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE).
• Also in 2022, “Employee Relations Policy” reviews were carried out, in connection with “Human Rights Impact Assessments,” at DTSE companies in Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Impacts on human rights are also measured with our Human Rights & Employee Relations Policy Cockpit. To this end, the national companies collect data related to five human rights  indicators and evaluate them according to a traffic light system.