46 |2020 Sustainability Report |As clear as water. Sustainable and transparent governance Due Diligence with third parties 16.5 Goal 5 Strategic line There was explanatory training on the operation andwith Aqualia's ethicalprinciples and values before implementation of the due diligence procedure withestablishing relationships with them. third parties with regard to compliance. The recipients were those employees who were part of productionThe number of business partners who were informed departments that may have been related to businessabout the organisation's policies and procedures to partners,since they needed to know what measuresfight corruption was as follows,broken down by to take to measure the alignment of third partiesbusiness partner type and region: Business partners in Spain 1 International business partners 5 Suppliers 4 Partners in private R&D projects 17Total Business Collaborators 1 partners Agents 5 51 Partners in public R&D projects 18 Achievement In 2020 Aqualia set out to conduct due diligenceactivities with third parties -agents and business 2020 partners - with regard to compliance, to understand the background and the alignment of strategic partners, agents and suppliers with Aqualia's ethical principlesOf the 180 Due Diligence operations and values. completed in 2020, 63% obtained a Depending on the level of the initial risk identified usingfinal assessment report of their risk level, 22% corresponded to projects that were the basic information provided by the departmentcancelled and 15% are still in the analysis making the request, subsequent actions are determinedphase (delays in projects, problems with to better understand the third party, ranging from thethe submission of documentation by completion of a survey by the third party to a requestthird parties, analysis in progress, etc.). to the FCC Security Department for screening (a background check).