Since 2008 E.ON AG's annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting has mainly appeared online. You can access all content on the first navigation level at www.eon.com under "Responsibility". Old reports are available in the Archive.

We strive to ensure balanced reporting of the environmental, social and commercial aspects of our business activities. As we do so, we feel it is important to present a transparent and comprehensive overview of our strengths and weaknesses. In selecting the topics for our CR reporting we are guided by the key CR topics in our Materiality Matrix.


General Structure of our Online Reporting

The web pages under the headings of CR Approach, including Reporting and CR Performance are the core of E.ON AG’s CR Report 2010. Other headings, Dialog, Focus Topics and CR in Practice are intended to provide additional information that complements the CR Report 2010.

Several web pages in the Responsibility channel contain links to other Group pages with information on CR topics. The Responsibility channel provides a platform on which we present our commitment in depth. This explains why our online reporting is more detailed than the publications available for download, such as the E.ON CR Reporting 2010 PDF file.

In 2011 our print publications also include a CR Magazine which will appear in June. It supplements our in-depth reporting online and picks up on the Focus Topics presented there.

We also present information on how E.ON meets its social responsibilities in a number of other publications, such as the Annual Report and our Strategy & Key Figures brochure.


CR Report 2010: Progress in the Reporting Period

Our reporting is aligned with the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), in which we have included the Electric Utilities Sector Supplement. At the same time, our CR reporting is also our progress report with reference to the United Nations Global Compact. In 2010 we added to our CR reporting other key figures in line with the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management (DVFA) and the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) standards. This is intended to increase our report’s comparability and to make access to information easier for financial communities interested in CR issues. We are one of the first companies in Germany to offer standardized ESG key figures.


CR Report Audit

As in previous years, key aspects of the CR Report 2010 were verified by auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This includes most of the web pages under the headings of CR Management as well as parts of the CR Performance section with key indicators. Verified content is marked with "Reviewed 2010"; it is valid until publication of the next CR Report and will not be updated during the course of the year.


Continuous Updates for Web-based Reporting

For a more flexible response to developments in the reporting period we use the capabilities of the Internet and update our online content under the headings of Dialog, Focus Topics and CR in Practice. This supports our aims of establishing the Internet as a central information platform for our stakeholders and offering better dialog opportunities.


Reporting Approach

The CR Report published by E.ON AG in May 2011 is the Group's seventh successive report. It covers the period from January 1 to December 31, 2010, and is available in German and English. The copy deadline for the established content for the CR Management and Reporting pages of the report was March 31, 2011. The next CR Report will be published in the second quarter of 2012.

Target groups for our CR reporting are our investors, rating and ranking agencies, CR opinion leaders, such as decision makers in the fields of politics, civil society and science, and our employees. Feedback from the different user groups, such as that which we received in response to our 2009 reporting, is continuously evaluated and the findings are fed into the creation process for our various publications.

The E.ON CR Report is a Group report. Its object is E.ON AG, including any shareholdings it holds directly. At year-end 2009 the Group structure was renewed. Existing market and business units were transferred to global and regional units, although for the 2010 reporting period and earlier, the previous names are valid. As we sold the U.S. Midwest market unit during the course of 2010, we have adjusted our consolidation basis for Group-wide CR key figures and deducted the unit retroactively to 2008 (as in the Annual Report). Through this, we intend to achieve better comparability of our CR performance on the Group level. As part of our E.ON cleaner & better energy strategy, we have deliberately strengthened the Group level and only take into account CR issues from our regional and global units where they have relevance for Group reporting.

Any exceptions to this are marked accordingly. The information in the report invariably relates to all subsidiaries and power plants in which E.ON has a majority holding and which are fully consolidated in the financial statements.
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