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SES General Terms & Conditions for the Purchase of Goods and Services (valid for orders from 01.01.2024)

FAQs about SES General Terms & Conditions (GTCs) for the Purchase of Goods and Services (valid for orders from 01.01.2024)

Question: What changed on the updated version of the Terms & conditions?
Answer: The SES Legal and Regulatory, with the Vendor Management and Procurement and ESG teams have worked on a small update:

• Updated and clarified the logistics requirement, in section 7, Supplier obligations
• Included new Cyber Security Contract Clauses, in section 7, Supplier obligations
• The SES Supplier Code of Conduct, available in www.ses.com/corporate-documents and referred to in these Terms and Conditions, has also been updated:
  • Added new section specifically dedicated to human rights, with references to the ILO International Labour Organization Standards and specific subsections on Child Labour, Forced Labour, Mineral Sourcing and Freedom of Association,
  • expanded the section about Environment with a link to our recently elaborated Environmental, Health and Safety Charter and a section dedicated to the Sustainable Product and Process Development.
  • extended the section about Information Security and included a reference to intellectual property rights.
  • Finally, a new reference to the SES Global Compliance Hotline, our whistleblowing mechanism that is now available not only for internal SES employees but for external stakeholders (customers and vendors) as well.

Question: How to identify us? What is our account number?
Answer: Your company might transact with one or several of SES subsidiaries, and therefore might appear in your systems under a different name. Please refer to the list of SES controlled subsidiaries, a list of which is always found in the most recent full year Financial results report.

Question: Who are not affected by the update in the Terms & conditions ? To whom does these changes/updates on the T&C apply? Do the T&C apply to everyone?
Answer: As per clause 1.3 in the new GTCs (already covered in the old SES GTCs, as clause 16.3), these GTCs only apply in cases where a separate agreement does not exist.

SES General Terms & Conditions for the Purchase of Goods and Services (valid for orders from 1st of June 2022 until 01.01.2024)

FAQs about SES General Terms & Conditions (GTCs) for the Purchase of Goods and Services (valid for orders from 1st of June 2022 until 01.01.2024)

Question: What changed on the updated version of the Terms & conditions?
Answer: The SES VMP and Supply Chain, Legal and Regulatory and ESG teams have worked together on an important update to our GTCs for the Purchase of Goods and Services. This is the first update in almost 5 years, so we have taken the opportunity to refresh them and add clauses on REACH compliance, align with our ESG objectives, update requirements and guidelines on dealing with SES (and make it a more transparent experience), remove any mention of old systems, change the formatting and making them easier to read.

Question: How to identify us? What is our account number?
Answer: Your company might transact with one or several of SES subsidiaries, and therefore might appear in your systems under a different name. Please refer to the list of SES controlled subsidiaries, a list of which is always found in the most recent full year Financial results report.

Question: Who are not affected by the update in the Terms & conditions ? To whom does these changes/updates on the T&C apply? Do the T&C apply to everyone?
Answer: As per clause 1.3 in the new GTCs (already covered in the old SES GTCs, as clause 16.3), these GTCs only apply in cases where a separate agreement does not exist.

SES General Terms & Conditions for the Purchase of Goods and Services (valid for orders prior to 1st of June 2022) 

SES Cybersecurity Contract Clauses, November 2024

What is new in the SES Cybersecurity Contract Clauses, November 2024

This new version has updated the reference to the ISO 27001 standard to the latest version, ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

SES Cybersecurity Contract Clauses, September 2023