Our actions are grounded in integrity and a respect for the law. To this end, the Board of Management has put into place a Code of Conduct containing guidelines for dealing with business partners and government institutions, for keeping business information and company secrets confidential, and for addressing conflicts of interest. Compliance Officers at E.ON AG and the market units are tasked with implementing the Code of Conduct and ensuring that any ethics issues that arise are dealt with independently and objectively.

 

We have defined Guidelines to Prevent Insider Trading which contain mandatory rules for dealing with insider information and trading in E.ON stock. These guidelines go beyond the minimum requirements contained in the German Securities Trading Act. We have also developed a special Code of Ethics that applies primarily to Board of Management members and members of the Disclosure Committee. In particular, the Code of Ethics obliges these individuals to make full, appropriate, accurate, timely, and comprehensible disclosure of information in our corporate publications. The text of the Code of Ethics is available on the Internet.

 

Finally, the Company has in place a procedure for dealing with complaints relating to accounting and financial reporting. Complaints may be submitted—anonymously, if desired—to a Compliance Officer who reports directly to the Audit Committee.