Awards, memberships and certificates

HEP, which has been operating in a competitive environment only since recently, has been improving its business activities from year to year on the principles of social responsibility. This has been recognized in our surroundings too: in 2003 HEP received a national  award as a socially responsible company in the field of environmental protection, and a year later HEP received a note of recognition for consumer protection at the first Consumer Convention in Croatia.

Memberships and documents representing the framework for HEP Group social responsibility  include:

• Code of Ethics
• HEP d.d. and HEP Group companies are signatories to the Statement accepting the code of Business Ethics adopted by the Croatian Chamber of Economy, 2005;
• HEP Group companies – HEP Toplinarstvo d.o.o., HEP ESCO d.o.o. and APO Environmental Services – are members of the Community for Corporate Social Responsibility
• APO Environmental Services, one of the founders of a non-profit organization Croatian business council for Sustainable Development (HR PSOR);
• As from 2003, all HEP's hydro power plants have certificates of a 100 percent electricity production from renewable sources, so-called “green energy”;
• ISO 14001 Certificate for environmental management within HEP Proizvodnja d.o.o. issued to TE-TO Zagreb (by BVQI), EL-TO Zagreb, Sisak TPP, CCPP Jertovec  and hydro production areas North and West (by Det Norske Veritas) with all hydro power plants included, within HEP ODS to Elektra Zagreb, and within HEP OPS to Zagreb Transmission Area (by Bureau Veritas
• ISO 9001 Certificate for quality management issued to TE-TO Zagreb (by Bureau Veritas), EL-TO Zagreb and CCPP Jertovec and hydro production areas North and West (by Det Norske Veritas) with all hydro power plants included