Sustainability Report 2012 - Generali Versicherung AG

GLOBALREPORTED COMPACTPRINCIPLESfully SR 2012, p. 28SR 2012, p. 28fullyCROSS-REFERENCE/DIRECT ANSWERfullyfullySR 2012, p. 36; 56Articles of Association, Art. 17 available on http://www.generali.com/GovernanceSR 2012, p. 48-49fully SR 2012, p. 34fullyCorporate Governance and Share Ownership Report 2012, p. 275-277fullyfullyfullySR 2012, p. 26; 31-35SR 2012, p. 29The Sustainability Report of the Group as well as Group codes, policies and their updates aresubject to the approval of the Board of Directors of the Parent Company.Corporate Governance and Share Ownership Report 2012, p. 281-282fully SR 2012, p. 4-5fullySR 2012, p. 40-41SR 2012, p. 40-41; 89-90fullyThe Generali Group provides routine membership dues and views memberships inassociations as strategic.fully SR 2012, p. 41A Head Office working group, supported by some CSR consultants, adopted theAccountAbility1000 principles when defining and selecting the stakeholders i.e. those whofullymake a direct contribution to the pursuit of the objectives of the Generali Group, allow it to becompetitive on the market and affect the various activities.fullySR 2012, p. 66-67 (employees); 74-75 (sales force); 94-96 (clients); 108 (suppliers)SR 2012, p. 34-35The Charter of Sustainability Commitments, that is available on http://www.generali.com/fullySustainability, considers both key topics raised through engagement of different Head Officedepartments and outcomes of various forms of dialogue and exchanges of opinion withGroup stakeholders.The attention to the topic of the climate change is confirmed by the Group adhesion to the CDP.The Generali Group has always linked its growth to the development of the local communities where it operates and adoptedemployee policies that do not discriminate anybody and aim at enhancing local abilities, giving importance to the contribution oflocal people in terms of market knowledge. This approach is also adopted by companies recently acquired or newly created, whoseworkforce almost entirely numbers local employees, in the management positions as well.As for the supplies, local suppliers are largely preferred.Indirect economic impacts are mainly linked to corporate citizenship initiatives. In order to improve life conditions in the countries whereGroup companies operate, they themselves work together with local institutions and not-for-profit associations, providing one-shotor, most often, recurrent financial support for different public utilities (educational services, health services, social integration services,professional integration of the disabled, etc.) and/or for infrastructures such as schools, day care centres and health care centres.Zukunftsfonds in Germany represents a great, structured example of collaboration with local institutions and not-for-profit associations.In order to contribute to the alleviation of poverty among disadvantaged inhabitants and to provide access to basic insurance policies,especially health insurance ones, the Group has recently financed the launch of some business ventures and microinsurance initiativesin India, where it entered only few years ago.GRI CONTENT INDEX - GRI 3.1 guidelines - GLOBAL COMPACT principles | 147