Preface to the 2009 Sustainability Report

With its 2006 Sustainability Report, Enel was one of the first companies in the world to adopt the new GR1-G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines developed by the Global Reporting Initiative.
The GRI is a multi-stakeholder network of thousands of experts throughout the world who, by participating in the initiative’s working groups and governance bodies, contribute to establishing and disseminating the procedures for reporting sustainability.
The GRI guidelines provide all the stakeholders of a company with a detailed overview of corporate sustainability and social responsibility and require compliance with the highest standards of the transparency and completeness of information.
For the electricity industry (the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity), GRI has established the EUSS (Electric Utilities Sector Supplement) indicators, which capture the particularity of that business and the key aspects of sustainability performance.
Enel has been proactive within the GRI in the conception, discussion, and approval of these sector indicators in order to make corporate communication for the use of the stakeholders concerned ever more transparent and fairer.
After the experimental phase of reporting the EUSS in its 2008 Sustainability Report, beginning with 2009 Enel will report the EUSS indicators and integrate them in this Report.