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Corporate Responsibility

Conduct in the Community and Charitable Contributions

  1. International Power (IPR) has community obligations where it does business. We have a general duty to avoid conduct prejudicial to the best interests of these communities. We have a positive duty as well as a self interest, to improving the well being of individuals and to use our best endeavours to enhance community life. A positive approach to our community relations is in the best long term interests of our company and of those who work within it.
  2. IPR Personnel are asked to assist IPR to be proactive in identifying appropriate opportunities to contribute positively to community affairs and they will be encouraged by IPR to do likewise as individuals. Our contributions may be in leadership by initiating or steering community projects; they may be supportive in terms of donations of facilities, equipment, materials, time or money.
  3. Our community support should be targeted to improving economic, environmental, educational or social well being in demonstrable ways. In nature and scale our support should be appropriate in each community while bearing favourable comparison with other companies of similar standing. Our support should be consistent with IPR’s business interests and corporate image, and should have a clear potential to enhance both of these.
  4. As part of our community obligations IPR is committed to charitable givings. The charitable policy is set out below:
    1. Whilst there are a lot of good charities to support IPR considers that there should be a consistent policy applied in all charitable donations made by IPR. The policy is:
      1. No awards can be given to political organisations
      2. All awards must comply with IPR’s business policies
      3. All awards should include one of the following attributes:
        1. A link to IPR’s business or IPR Personnel
        2. An international dimension and/or a connection with a local community in which IPR operates
        3. Developmental, training and education or youth features.
    2. IPR has established a charities committee to co-ordinate and implement this policy.
    3. Each IPR business unit will implement its own charitable policy in line with the IPR corporate policy and at the end of each year report to the IPR Charities committee on all charitable donations or contributions it has made.
    4. IPR will implement a give as you earn scheme for IPR Personnel where this is possible. In addition IPR will, for suitable charities, match funding of amounts raised by IPR Personnel, to pre-agreed levels.

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