4.2 Corporate Governance Practices

The Corporate Governance Code^[48] interprets corporate governance as a notion embracing relationships between executive bodies of a joint-stock company, its Board of Directors, shareholders and other stakeholders. Corporate governance is a tool for identifying firm’s goals and ways to achieve these goals as well as for fostering efficient oversight of firm’s operations for shareholders and other stakeholders.

Core goals of corporate governance are:

• crafting of an effective system for protection and efficient disposal of shareholder’s resources;
• reduction of risks which investors are unable to evaluate and unwilling to accept and management of which by investors in the long run shall inevitably result in reduction of firm’s investment prospects and share prices.

Our corporate governance practices are premised on the principles, described below:

Its corporate governance practices constantly upgraded, the Company keeps its fingers on the pulse of corporate governance trends evolving in Russia. The Company highlights the importance of the Corporate Governance Code, adopted and enforced by the Central Bank from 2014. Principles and recommendations of the Code set the bar high and serve as a guidemark for further development of the corporate governance system by the Company. We also focus hard on regulatory requirements to reflect them in our corporate governance practices.

The corporate governance system of OAOOpen Joint-Stock Company IDGCInterregional Distribution Grid Company of Urals is based on principles designed to multiply assets, enhance investment prospects and market value, maintain the Company’s financial stability and profitability as well as respect the rights and interests of stockholders and stakeholders.

Please, visit our official website to examine bylaws regulating corporate governance principles, practices and procedures.

Corporate governance structure

Self-evaluation of corporate governance level

The Company conducts self-evaluation of corporate governance practices on an annual basis in compliance with the Methodology^[49]. CY2020-2021 evaluation of efficiency of corporate governance in OAOOpen Joint-Stock Company IDGCInterregional Distribution Grid Company of Urals *:

 

Component	Number of criteria under evaluation	Largest possible score	Internal Audit’s evaluation	Compliance,	Evaluation of corporate governance
				%
Shareholder rights	19	71	69	97%	Developed practices
Board of Directors**	51	185	128	69%	Good practices
Executive bodies	5	40	34	85%	Developed practices
Transparency and disclosures	15	135	111	82%	Developed practices
Risk management, internal control and internal audit	16	63	63	100%	Best practices
Corporate social responsibility, business ethics	6	31	31	100%	Best practices
Total score:	112	525	436	83%	Developed practices

Component	Number of criteria under evaluation	Largest possible score	Internal Audit’s evaluation	Compliance,	Evaluation of corporate governance
				%
Shareholder rights	19	71	69	97%	Developed practices
Board of Directors**	51	185	128	69%	Good practices
Executive bodies	5	40	34	85%	Developed practices
Transparency and disclosures	15	135	111	82%	Developed practices
Risk management, internal control and internal audit	16	63	63	100%	Best practices
Corporate social responsibility, business ethics	6	31	31	100%	Best practices
Total score:	112	525	436	83%	Developed practices

Compliance with the principles of the Corporate Governance Code [1]

Aspects	Principles, recommended by the Code	Principles complied with in full	Principles complied with in part	Principles that are not complied with by the Company
Rights of stockholders and equal treatment of stockholders in the exercising of their rights	13	10	2	1
Board of Directors	36	26	9	1
Corporate Secretary	2	2	0	0
Remuneration system	10	8	2	0
Risk Management and Internal Control System	6	6	0	0
Information disclosure, information policy	7	6	1	0
Significant and important corporate actions and events	5	3	2	0
Total	79	61	16	2

Aspects	Principles, recommended by the Code	Principles complied with in full	Principles complied with in part	Principles that are not complied with by the Company
Rights of stockholders and equal treatment of stockholders in the exercising of their rights	13	10	2	1
Board of Directors	36	26	9	1
Corporate Secretary	2	2	0	0
Remuneration system	10	8	2	0
Risk Management and Internal Control System	6	6	0	0
Information disclosure, information policy	7	6	1	0
Significant and important corporate actions and events	5	3	2	0
Total	79	61	16	2

Examine the Appendix for more details on the Company’s compliance with the principles and recommendations of the Corporate Governance Code.