Abengoa has not signed up to any standard or voluntary code related to marketing, advertising or other promotional or sponsorship activities. However, the company has a demanding and stringent internal control procedure for external communications, which is included under internal company norms.

This control system entails the existence of a chain of internal authorizations which are ultimately submitted to the company chairman. All heads of the areas involved must authorize and complete the information accordingly, thus ensuring that the resulting communications neither contravene the company’s principles and values nor violate its Code of Conduct.

There were no reports through Abengoa reporting channels of any claims filed with respect to this matter at any Abengoa company in 2011.