ABBYY anti-slavery and human trafficing statement
For the Financial Year ending 31st December 2025
This statement is made on behalf of ABBYY UK LT, and ABBYY PTY LTD (ABBYY) pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK) and pursuant to Section 14 of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (AUS) (the “Modern Slavery Acts”).
Who we are
ABBYY is a global leader in document-centric intelligent automation. Our offerings enable enterprises to automate document centric processes and to turn data into intelligence, and intelligence into outcomes. ABBYY customers and partners can be found in almost every region in the world. Thousands of organizations globally and more than 50 million people from over 200 countries and regions use ABBYY products, technologies, solutions and services.
ABBYY has a worldwide presence with global offices in Europe and U.S.A., with R&D centers in Serbia, Hungary, and India. ABBYY also has regional offices in Australia, France, Spain, Cyprus, Ukraine, Serbia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, and Japan.
ABBYY employees approximately 620 people globally, including teams in product development, engineering, client support, marketing, administration legal/compliance and finance.
For more information about ABBYY visit: https://www.abbyy.com
ABBYY and human rights
ABBYY believes that modern slavery and human trafficking are unacceptable and shall combated. We uphold our support for human rights and ethics and are committed to eliminating slavery and human trafficking from our business and operations.
ABBYY operations and supply chain
The industry sector in which ABBYY operates is considered a low risk for modern slavery. Our supply chains consist primarily of the provision of low-risk professional support services or office facilities, which support our employees in their work, such as:
- Technology - IT hardware and software. Business- furniture, stationery and marketing items as well as the services that we use in our offices for example, catering, security and cleaning
- Travel - organising and booking our travel and accommodation requirements
- Professional Services - external training services, external consultants, technical support services
- Subcontracted labor
- Real estate – the offices we rent
ABBYY has identified the following areas as potentially higher risk:
- Subcontracted software development personnel
- Use of migrant or vulnerable workers in indirect supply chains
- Our Global Code of Conduct sets out the conduct that we expect of our employees, contractors and suppliers, which states that we will not tolerate slavery or human trafficking.
- Our Global Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy sets out prohibitions against any form of bribery and corruption, and guides our employees, contractors and suppliers in our day-to day dealings.
- Provide training to employees
- Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains in geographical areas with higher risk
- Improve upon our internal policies by introducing appropriate statements and guidance for the employees
- Include anti-slavery and human rights clauses in contracts, especially ones that present high risk
- Vendor Compliance Letter – include a clause in vendor’s compliance attestation requiring suppliers to comply with anti-slavery and human rights standards
- Vendor Standard Agreement - require that standard terms include compliance with the Modern Slavery Acts
- By the director of ABBYY UK LTD on 6 August 2025
- By the director of ABBYY PTY LTD on 6 August 2025
Risk and compliance
Given the sector and geography of ABBYY's business, we believe that our exposure to the risk of modern slavery is not significant. However, as part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risks, we are committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking.
We expect the same high standards from all our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
Our policies
We do not tolerate modern slavery, whether within either our own business or our supply chain. We have policies that address the risks of modern slavery and other unethical, unlawful or discriminatory or exploitative behavior and treatment. These are set out below:
Training and due diligence
ABBYY has a risk-based approach to protecting, supporting and evaluating its business. We are constantly rolling out training to our employees on various compliance matters, working on introducing appropriate clauses in our contracts and undertaking due diligence on our contractors.
We are currently undertaking a review of our supply chains for risks of modern slavery in the geographical areas where that could be a risk factor.
Following a review of the effectiveness of our approach to ensure that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains we intend to take the following further steps to combat slavery and human trafficking:
Board approval
This statement is subject to annual review and the dates of the most recent approvals are: