The Buzzi Unicem group’s 2007 Sustainability Report presents the social , environmental, and economic performance associated with the group’s activities in the various countries where it is active. It follows the approach established during the last few years.
The Report’s structure and contents are based on a rationale of continuity and ongoing refinement. The 2007 Report in fact features expansion of reporting scope for some environmental aspects concerning concrete production and enhancement of the reporting system via preparation of a specific Sustainability reporting package to gather data in the various countries.

Process
Our 2007 Sustainability Report is the result of a structured process performed by a task force set up at corporate HQ level and formed by all functions representing a cross-section of all areas connected with the group’s social, environmental, and economic reporting, working without the aid of outside advisors. Starting in November, the task force defined the information approach to be used (the Sustainability reporting package) and the key country contacts to be involved for data gathering. The reporting packages received by individual area managers of Italian and international companies were then collected and consolidated by task force members for their respective areas of responsibility.

Guidelines
The Sustainability Report 2007 has been drawn up based on the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines Version 3.0 (G3) of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and meets the content requirements of Application Level B +. Reference has also been made to the guidelines established by the Social Report Study group (GBS) with regard to aspects relating to the calculation and distribution of the added value.

Integration of sustainable development into our organization

	R&D	Human Resources	Marketing	Finance	Production	Enviromental Affairs
Responsible for What	Produc Responsabi-lities	Recruitment Training Industtial Relations	Brand Reputation	Corporate Governance Financial Data	Sustainable management of production units within local activities	Risk management on enviromental and safety
To Whom	Customers	Employees Trade unions Prospects Employees	Employees Customers Communities	Shareholders Market	Local communities Employees	Employees Communities Institutions
Through What Mechanisms	Quality standards Compliance Assurance	School and University Trade unions Internal communica- tion	R&D new sales channel Improve corporate culture towards Sustainability	Financial Reporting Shareholder meetings Press release	Compliance with production, enviromental and safety standards	Comply with new laws and regulations Training Auditing
With What Outcomes	Improve product life cycle	Promoting Corporate cooperation and competitive- ness	Improve brand equity Improve corporate identity	Trasparency Complete-ness	Meet and improve sustainable production parameters	Improve safety and enviromental working standards

Note concerning methodology