The Code of Conduct and the commitments derived from adherence to the United Nations Global Compact in 2002 provide the framework for the company’s Labor-Related Social Responsibility (LSR) policy, which has led the organization to develop a management system based on the SA8000 standard. The primary objective of this norm is to ensure ongoing improvement in the company’s social performance and to assist the organization in upholding the following commitments:

• Ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and any other commitments undertaken in this area.
• Promoting the principles of the Global Compact in the company’s sphere of action: partners, suppliers and contractors.
• Promoting and fostering the personal and professional development of the people who make up the Abengoa organization by creating optimal working conditions and promoting continuing training.
• Recruiting, hiring, training and promoting the most qualified individuals, regardless of race, religion, color, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, nationality, or physical or mental disability.
• Ensuring appropriate preventive culture in accordance with the Occupational Risk Prevention (ORP) policy.
• Creating the conditions necessary to facilitate employee work-life balance.
• Evaluating and reviewing the company’s stewardship performance, reporting on such performance in a transparent manner, and devising programs for ongoing improvement.