Corporate responsibility is an integral part of Eni’s culture and way of doing business. The goal has always been to combine competitiveness with sustainability.

It is a challenge that sees the Company committed to pursuing growth, innovation and results, while at the same time placing the greatest attention to the promotion of the quality of life, human rights, labor standards, environmentally compatible development as well as demonstrating a capacity to integrate with different cultures and contexts.

This commitment is reflected in the principles, policies and managerial behaviour that characterize Eni’s business approach and which are aimed at enhancing creativity and innovation, at promoting a “culture of sustainability” and at strengthening the stakeholders’ trust in the Company.

It is a path which, as also stated in the Eni’s mission, strives for the continuous strengthening of structural capital and the development of human, relational and social capital as an investment in competitiveness and longevity and which draws on the Company’s Code of Practice, on the most rigorous standards adopted in terms of Corporate Governance, in full compliance with national laws and international agreements and guidelines.

The profound awareness of the link between energy, development, the environment and a vision of the world open to other people’s rights and reasons, have placed Eni in the forefront of the reflections concerning the great challenges that face our society and the sustainability of its development model. The results achieved and the recognition obtained confirm the soundness of this approach and its sustainability for the years ahead.

In 2004 Eni published “Corporate Responsibility –values and practices” with the aim of communicating its path with respect to sustainability and corporate responsibility; a commitment, which has led in recent years to creating a specific area in Eni portal and to including a whole section in the annual report from 2002.