Annual Report 2019 Highlights Snam Profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements
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Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements Annual report 2019 Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements Company profil Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators and one of the largest Italian listed companies in terms of market capitalization. The company’s sustainable and technologically advanced network guarantees security of supply and promotes development in the areas in which it operates, while also contributing to promote the energy transition. Through its international subsidiaries, it operates in Albania (AGSCo), Austria (TAG, GCA), China (Snam Gas & Energy Services Beijing), France (Terēga), Greece (DESFA) and the United Kingdom (Interconnector UK). Snam is also one of the main shareholders of TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline), the final section of the Southern Energy Corrido . The company has the most extensive transmission network among European peers (over 41,000 km including international activities) and greatest natural gas storage capacity (ca. 20 billion cubic meters, including international activities). It is also one of the main regasification operators in urope, an activity it carries out through its Panigaglia terminal and its stakes in the Livorno (OLT) (*) and Rovigo (Adriatic LNG) plants in Italy and in the Revithoussa (DESFA) plant in Greece, with a total pro rata regasification capacity f around 8.5 billion cubic metres per year. As part of its new €6.5 billion plan to 2023, Snam will invest €1.4 bn in the SnamTec (Tomorrow’s Energy Company) project, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of its activities by promoting innovation and contribute to decarbonisation. Through this project, Snam aims to reduce methane emissions by 40% by 2025 and direct and indirect CO2 equivalent emissions by the same amount by 2030 and to invest in new energy transition businesses. These include sustainable mobility (compressed – CNG and bio-CNG – and liquefied – LNG and bio-LNG – natural gas distributors, S all Scale LNG), infrastructure for biomethane from organic waste and agricultural and agro-industrial waste, and energy efficie y services tailored to apartment buildings, the public administration and industry. Promoting the use of renewable gases, Snam was also the first uropean company to test the introduction of hydrogen blended with natural gas in its network. Snam’s business model is based on sustainable growth, transparency, the promotion of talent and diversity and the social development of regions through the initiatives of Fondazione Snam. (*) The acquisition of a 49.07% share of the OLT regasification terminal was completed on 26 Februa y 2020. Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements Annual report 2019 Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements Snam’s reports Report on the remuneration policy and remuneration paid 2020 FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE ON CLIMATE CHANGE THE REMUNERATION REPORT It describes the governance, the strategy, the It describes the company’s remuneration policy of scenarios, the risk and opportunities, the metrics Directors and Executives specifying the goals, the and targets laid out by the company to manage involved bodies, the procedures for its adoption and the climate change issue according to the implementation in addition to the remuneration paid. recommendations of the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). Report on corporate governance Sustainability report and ownership structure 2019 2019 THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT THE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT It provides detailed information about the company, It describes performances and future goals its governance system and structure, the ownership regarding the environmental, social and governance structure, the internal control and risk management topics (ESG), strengthening the relationship and system and related topics. collaboration with a wide audience of stakeholders. Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements THE REPORTING PROCESS Snam has long started an integration track of its reporting processes because “integrated reporting means integrated thinking”. This approach has allowed a comprehensive and integrated overview on all the stakeholders and shareholders demands, offering a wide, transparent and responsible corporate disclosure leading to a complete view on the activities, performances and challenges which Snam faces today. ANNUAL REPORT The Annual report includes the Directors’ Report, which constitutes the Integrated Report of Snam, presented following Annual report 2019 the indications of the Framework proposed by the IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council), the Consolidated Financial Statement and the Statutory Financial Statement. The objective of the Directors’ Report is to represent, in addition to annual operating results, Snam’s model for the creation of value and the sustainability of the business over the medium and long term, thereby indicating and demonstrating the interconnections between strategy, governance, business and financial performance, and the social, environmental and econom c environment in which the enterprise operates. The aspects covered by the Report represent the principal factors that have a potential impact on business and financial performance an material sustainability issues. The following schedules facilitate reconciliation of the various keys to reading and interpretation recommended by the IIRC Framework and the content of the Report. The Directors’ Report also contains information referred to in the Consolidated Non-Financial Statement (NFS) which constitutes a specific section thereo , in compliance with the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 254/2016. NFS contents are integrated, where deemed necessary and appropriate, by the information reported in the Report on operations, which can be identified a d consulted by following the specific references: Infographics an grey background / character, associated with the paragraph title (if 2019 entirely referring to aspects described in the NFS) or to the specifi text content. Structure of the Group at 31 December 2019 Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements Corporate bodies BOARD OF DIRECTORS (*) BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS (*) Chairman Chairman Luca Dal Fabbro (1) (2) Stefano Gnocchi (6) Chief Executive Officer Principal statutory auditors Marco Alverà (1) Gianfranco Chinellato (5) Directors Donata Paola Patrini (5) Laura Cavatorta (3) (4) Alternate statutory auditors Francesco Gori (3) (4) Federica Albizzati (6) Yunpeng He (1) Maria Gimigliano (5) Antonio Marano (1) (3) Francesca Pace (1) (3) Rita Rolli (3) (4) Alessandro Tonetti (1) CONTROL, RISK AND RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE Francesco Gori - Chairman Antonio Marano - Chairman Francesca Pace Laura Cavatorta Antonio Marano Alessandro Tonetti ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL COMPENSATION COMMITTEE & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE (**) Francesca Pace - Chairman Laura Cavatorta - Chairman Rita Rolli Rita Rolli Alessandro Tonetti Yunpeng He INDEPENDENT AUDITORS (***) PricewaterhouseCoopers S.p.A. (*) Appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 2 April 2019 and in office until the date of the Shareholders’ Meeting called in 202 to approve the financial statements at 31 December 2021. (**) Established by the Board of Directors on 19 May 2019 in place of the Sustainability Committee. (***) Appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 24 April 2018 for the period 2018-2026. (1) Candidate directors on the list presented by shareholder CDP Reti S.p.A. (2) Independent pursuant to the TUF. (3) Independent pursuant to the TUF and the Code of Corporate Governance. (4) Directors that were candidates on a list submitted jointly by Institutional Investors. (5) Candidate standing auditors on the list presented by shareholder CDP Reti S.p.A. (6) Directors that were candidates on a list submitted jointly by Institutional Investors. 4 Annual report 2019 Highlights Snam profile Directors' Report Consolidated Financial Statements NFS Structure of the Group at 31 December 2019 The changes in the consolidation scope of Snam Group at 31 December 2019, compared with 31 December 2018, consisted of the inclusion of the following companies1: (i) Enura S.p.A. (formerly Asset Company 5 S.r.l.), 55% owned by Snam S.p.A., for the construction of the transportation infrastructure in Sardinia2; (ii) Snam Gas & Energy Services (Beijing) Co. Ltd, wholly owned by Snam International B.V., based China to support the development of the Chinese gas market using Snam’s distinctive expertise in this industry.; (iii) Snam 4 Environment S.r.l. (formerly Asset Company 6 S.r.l.), wholly-owned by Snam S.p.A., established following the acquisition, in November 2019, from Ladurner Ambiente and from AB Invest of 82.63% of Renerwaste S.r.l., one of the leading companies in Italy operating in biogas and biomethane infrastructure, with the consequent gaining of control of Renerwaste Lodi S.r.l., Ecoprogetto Milano S.p.A., Ecoprogetto Tortona S.r.l.; (iv) TEA Servizi S.r.l., following the acquisition in November 2019, via the wholly-owned company Asset Company 4 S.r.l., of 100% of the share capital of the company, active in the design, construction and running of thermohydraulic and electric plants for industrial customers, with a special focus on small and medium-sized companies. With the exception of Enura, subject to consolidation within the “Natural gas transportation”