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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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Sustainability Report
Illustrating the Fiat Group’s work in 2004 from the standpoint
of its economic, social and environmental impact, enabling the
public to gauge the contribution that the Group has made to
responsible development: this is the goal of the Group’s first
Sustainability Report, published this year together with the
Annual Report.
The Sustainability Report is addressed to the Group’s
stakeholders (employees, shareholders, suppliers, partners,
customers, local communities and associations), and is
designed to provide them with information about its efforts
in the areas of management accountability, respect for the
environment, and corporate social responsibility. In addition,
it states its goals, and, as it is presented annually, provides an
opportunity for measuring the progress made in a process of
improvement that is, by nature, continuous.
In the past, Fiat has published documents which analyzed or
discussed certain of the issues addressed in the Sustainability
Report. Thus, the Sustainability Report builds on the experience
gained through the Environmental Report, which Fiat has
published since 1993, the Code of Conduct (successor to the
Code of Ethics adopted in the early Nineties), the Internal
Control System and the other tools of corporate governance.
As such, it is the first balanced, integrated examination of Fiat’s
relationship with the civil society.
The Sustainability Report is rooted in the same ethical
values that for over a century have informed Fiat’s
dealings with shareholders, employees, customers,
the public, and the environment.
The social role that the Group has played in Italy’s
industrial and economic development is written in the
history books, as is its contribution to providing affordable
transportation, to promoting development in Southern
Italy, to research, to improving the work environment
and to setting up ecologically compatible manufacturing
processes.
Today, in a period of growing public attention to the
country’s sustainable development, Fiat – like many
other enterprises – has chosen this modern approach
to strengthening a direct, open relationship with the civil
society: the kind of relationship the Group has always
prided itself on. The Sustainability Report, in fact, is not
mandated by law, but expresses the Group’s commitment
to increasingly open communication in these vital areas.
Fiat believes that attention to the sustainability of its work
does not hamper its business, but adds to its value. Thus
the Sustainability Report increases its credibility, and enhances
its international reputation.