Reporting

Regular reporting is part of corporate responsibility

We actively and openly release information on environmental issues and other matters concerning sustainable development as well as on the environmental impacts of our products over their life cycles.

Ruukki has published a separate Corporate Responsibility Report for 2011 which can be read at www.ruukki.com/Corporate-responsibility/Corporate-responsibility-report-2011.

Content and scope

In the corporate responsibility report we describe the company's main issues regarding economic, social and environmental issues. The sections include key figures as an indicator of our performance and also descriptions of operations in these different areas, the practices and management of these issues.

Data collection methods

No significant changes took place in data collection methods during the year, nor have any material errors been found in previous reports.

• The financial information contained in this report is based on Rautaruukki’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in compliance with IFRS.
• Information about the personnel has been collected from the company’s corporate-wide personnel information system.
• The environmental data have been collected, from all production sites that were part of the Group at year-end 2011, with a few exceptions, using an online data collection tool. The scope of the data collected depends on the significance of environmental impacts at each site when examined from the environmental perspectives of the entire Group.

Report verification

This report has not been verified by an external party. The financial data are subject to auditing. Most of the environmental data is from sites with a certified ISO 14001 environmental management system. The data have been checked by comparing them with the data for previous years at both the site and Group level. Any divergences have been analysed.

This report is based on international and Finnish reporting recommendations.