Corporate Report Microelectronic

07

Corporate Responsibility Report A Culture of Sustainable Excellence

STMicroelectronics

Reader’s guide

Report scope and profile This is a report of how responsibly we have performed as a company in the calendar year 2007. It covers all STMicroelectronics NV’s activities and sites, unless otherwise stated. You can find details about ST’s structure and countries of operation in the chart on page 1. For additional information you can look at reports from previous years at http://www.st.com/stonline/ company/cr/reports/index.htm. This year we have chosen to continue to present examples of best practice from sites, regions, product groups and central organizations to illustrate our successes, but also our challenges, in each section of the report. We want to demonstrate the growing company-wide awareness of Corporate Responsibility that our activities reflect. Each chapter of the report is organized in the same way as last year, with articles, interviews and concrete actions deployed at ST sites at the beginning of the chapter and then a performance overview, which presents detailed results and figures on our Corporate Responsibility performance. Adherence to GRI and the UN Global Compact This report is in accordance with the 2006 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines, with an A+ selfdeclared rating checked and confirmed by GRI. If G3 indicators are not applicable or relevant to us we explain why we do not report on them either in the text and/or in the indicator index in the html version of this report. We use our own indicators to respond to or to supplement GRI indicators (see below). As a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, we also endorse the Global Compact Principles. This report describes actions we have taken to implement these Principles, and serves as our Communication on Progress. On the flap of the back cover, you will find an index that links the GRI and ST indicators to related information in the report. The link with the...