1、2018OUR RESPONSIBILITY Powering.Reliable.Future.The report entitled“Our Responsibility 2018”is aimed at analysts and investors,non-governmental organisations(NGOs),customers and suppliers,policymakers and govern-ment agencies,as well as our employees and the people living in the regions where we do
2、business.It describes the most important social,environmental and economic chal-lenges facing our core business,the conflicting aims that can arise,and the Corporate Responsibility(CR)strategy we have developed in response.From the business year 2017,companies in Germany geared to the capital market
3、 must comply with the amendment to the German Commercial Code(HGB)dated 18 April 2017(CSR Directive Implementation Act)and publish a Non-financial Declaration in the combined review of operations or a separate Group Non-financial Report(NfR)in a separate document.RWE AG is meeting this obligation wi
4、th the sections of this report marked in blue.These sections were subject to a limited assurance engagement performed by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaft-sprfungsgesellschaft.The audit was implemented taking into account compliance with the requirements of the Ger-man Commerci
5、al Code(HGB).This report is published electronically in pdf format.The accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirt-schaftsprfungsgesellschaft performed an engagement audit on the disclosures indicated withand provided a limited assurance relating to compliance of the disclosures with the requi
6、rements of the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI).The audit only covered the appropriately highlighted sections of the report and not texts or Internet pages referred to.ApproachThe limited assurance engagement was carried out in accordance with the auditing principles of the International Standard on