AREVA

From Areva's Statement of Support to the EITI:

The AREVA group has been a supporting company of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative since 2003. It is demonstrating in this way its genuine commitment to greater economic and financial transparency in relation to populations and stakeholders.

One of the very first multinational companies to participate in the EITI, AREVA became a supporter on June 17, 2003, during the EITI Conference in London.

The Executive Board has placed responsibility for EITI strategy at AREVA in the hands of Olivier Loubière, the Group’s Business Ethics Advisor.

At the operational level, an EITI correspondent has been appointed in the Mining Business Group as well as in each of the mining subsidiaries located in a participating country.

The Financial Department of the Mining Business Group, working with the corporate Financial Department, supervises the reporting of payments made to implementing countries.

The annual internal ethics reporting procedure coordinated by the Business Ethics Advisor has been obligatory for senior-level management at AREVA since 2004 as well as for all the Group’s units. It includes a report of the payments made by the Group’s mining subsidiaries to all governments implementing the EITI.

Thus, EITI compliance reporting is not an artificial or optional process at AREVA, but an obligatory one, as these financial data are then communicated to the EITI.

International-level company form:

1. Has the company published a clear public statement endorsing the EITI Principles and Criteria, and ensured this is accessible on its external website? YES
2. If applicable (i.e. for operations in EITI implementing countries that have completed at least one validation), has the company provided links on its external website to completed (Country-level) Company Forms? Not applicable
3. Has the company assigned strategic responsibility for EITI to a member of its senior management and appointed a lead contact person responsible for communication of the company’s EITI policy, action in support of EITI, and responding to queries from EITI stakeholders? YES
4. If the International EITI Conference has taken place in the validation period, did a member of senior management attend or send a statement of support? YES
5. Where a company has a global sustainability report or corporate responsibility report, has the company included a summary of its contribution to EITI in this and on its external website? YES