PIRELLI - Pirelli's Path towards Sustainable Development

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	22/07/2008The value of CSR to the 'Pirelliani': the actions undertaken over the last year following the results that emerged from the summer 2007 CSR survey will be made known in a few days with posters by all Group Affiliates. Officially launched a year ago, the project of the diffusion of CSR culture within the Pirelli Group saw in this survey a fundamental instrument for the design and development of initiatives of improvement of aspects of social relevance. Employees were asked to express their opinions and give suggestions for improvement on a series of "sustainability" subjects which were considered among the more interesting. On the basis of the opinions expressed and the criticism that emerged, each country has developed a plan of action, communicating what has been done and what it is intended to do in coming months.
	10/07/2008 - Italian Ministry for the Environment and Pirelli: an Italian product for Beijing buses - Beijing - The Italian Ministry for the Environment signed an agreement with the Municipality of Beijing to launch a pilot project in the Chinese capital for testing particulate filter technology developed by Pirelli Eco Technology, able to reduce by more than 95% particulate emissions from diesel engines.
	07/07/2008 - Pirelli among the 100 World's Most Respected Companies' according to The Reputation Institute - New York. - Pirelli is among the 100 World's Most Respected Companies' according to the 2008 edition of The Global Pulse Project, edited by The Reputation Institute - New York. The special ranking takes into account more than a thousand companies from 27 countries according to an index that measures the degree of trust, admiration, esteem and respect from the public. The annual survey interviews more than 30,000 consumers. The topline results of this study are published annually in Forbes.
	19/06/2008 - Practice equality of gender in careers: the "tool kit" was presented in Brussels - On Thursday 19 June the ‘Practice equality of gender in careers' tool kit was presented in Brussels to the General Assembly of CSR Europe, written by Pirelli together with IBM Italy, L'Oreal, Telecom Italia, Poste Italiane, Roche Diagnostics and the Indesit Company. Drawing up this instrument took a year of work by the Equal Opportunity Laboratory, established in 2007 by Pirelli and the above mentioned companies at the Fondazione Sodalitas (www.sodalitas.it) on the occasion of the European Equal Opportunity year. Pirelli participated in the laboratory by virtue of its adherence to the European Alliance for CSR, an initiative promoted by the European Commission to encourage the diffusion and exchange of the best practices of sustainability among companies.
	12/06/2008 - The ‘Diffusion of Italian Culture' project is presented - Favour the reciprocal knowledge of the Italian and Rumanian cultures is the objective of the ‘Diffusion of Italian Culture' project in the Slatina area, which was presented on 12 June at the Pirelli factory in the presence and under the patronage of the Italian Ambassador to Bucharest, Daniele Mancini, the Mayor of Slatina, Darius Valcov, and the Head of the Modern Language Faculty of the University of Craiova, Gabriel Cosoveanu. A Pirelli Italian Library was also inaugurated on the same occasion and, for the moment, will only be available to employees, but with the prospect of it being open to the entire local community in the near future.However, culture cannot be gathered from books alone, for which reason the second step in the project includes the creation of a cineforum for the projection of historic Italian films.From September, employees will also have the opportunity of participating in Italian language courses to take place at the factory, with the cooperation of the University of Craiova.The invaluable collaboration with the university will also result in new opportunities for young Rumanian graduates. Next September, five brilliant new graduates of the Craiova seat of learning will join the Pirelli Group. The introduction course for these talented young people includes a period of training in another European country in which there are Pirelli factories. In addition, Pirelli will help the most meritorious students of the University of Craiova to terminate their studies by making available nine scholarships.
	06/06/2008 - Pirelli confirmed in the ASPI Eurozone® Index (Advanced Sustainable Performance Indices) - Following VIGEO's biennial revision of Index consituents, Pirelli is confirmed in the ASPI Eurozone® Index, which tracks the financial performance of 120 leading Eurozone sustainability performers (from the DJ EURO STOXXSM benchmark financial universe).
	05/06/2008 - Pirelli confirmed in the FTSE4Good Sustainability Indexes - Pirelli is confirmed at both European and world levels in the latest six- monthly revision, both in the FTSE4Good Global Index and in the FTSE4Good Europe.
	16/05/2008 - Aid for China - Pirelli is helping the people of Sichuan. Two days after the terrible earthquake that shook the central-western province of China, yesterday (14 May) Pirelli Tyre China joined the consortium of international aid with a contribution handed over directly to the People's Affairs Bureau, the local civil defence organisation, by Managing Director Carlo Cattaneo.
	15/05/2008 - Diversity is a value - Pirelli has participated together with 17 other companies to the Job Meeting "Diversity at work", the first event organized in Italy devoted to the meeting between the work demand of protected categories and immigrants and the offer of job positions made available by companies focused and careful on Diversity Management policies.
	09/05/2008 - The winner is ... Pirelli Labs! - Today, the President of CNR (the National Council of Research), Luciano Maiani, presented the Masi Oscar for industrial innovation to Pirelli Labs, winner of the 2007 competition, having as its theme the ‘application of nanotechnology'. The Labs won with their tuneable laser, one of the most innovative devices at a world level for the creation of a universal source in long distance optical fibre telecommunications systems, which is protected by no fewer than 14 international patents.
	29/04/2008 - Pirelli publishes its third Sustainability Report - Sustainability Performance is included in the Group Annual Report 2007, as in previous years, according to the company's integrated approach to sustainability.
	23/04/2008 - Pirelli-Polytechnic together in professorship - A new chair has been created at the Milan Polytechnic: Fundamental Chemicals of Tyre Technology and Chemical Engineering, the result of an agreement between the university and the Pirelli Group.
	31/03/2008 - Stanford School of Business: visit of honour to Bicocca - Today at the Castello degli Arcimboldi in Milan, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman of Pirelli & C. SpA, received a study group from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the prestigious school of American management established in 1925 at the University of Stanford in California.
	19/03/2008 - Pirelli confirmed in the FTSE4Good Sustainability Indexes - both in the FTSE4Good Global Index and in the FTSE4Good Europe - following the March 2008 Semi-Annual index review.
	05/03/2008 - Medics in the front line, from Slatina to Milan - The programme financed by Pirelli is under way at Milan's Niguarda Hospital to update Rumanian medical personnel. The first delegation of medical and paramedic personnel has arrived in Milan and the Niguarda Cà Grande Hospital in the Lombardy capital city from Slatina as part of a professional updating programme, financed by Pirelli.
	04/03/2008 - Pirelli and the European Alliance for CSR - Pirelli's participation in the European Alliance, formalized in 2007, is based on its 100% agreement with the competitive vision that generated the Alliance: that sustainability is not a mere accessory or an extra, but a strategic and competitive way of managing a company.
	20/02/08 - Pirelli declared "World Sustainability Leader" and "Gold Class Company" - Pirelli declared both Leader of the 'Auto Parts and Tire' sector and Gold Class Company for its commitment to and the results it has achieved in the area of sustainability. This recognition comes from the SAM Group (Sustainable Asset Management), the world's leading company in the analysis of investments on the sustainability front, which presented the '2008 Sustainability Yearbook', produced in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 29 January.

Last Revised: 22 2008