BG Group's aim is to create outstanding and durable value for its shareholders. The Group's statement of Business Principles sets out the core values and behaviours that we believe are essential elements of sustainable value creation.

Our commitment is that we should operate to the highest ethical standards, that safety should be the overriding priority in the way we manage our business, that our employees should feel that they have an opportunity to realise their full potential and that through our businesses we should make a positive contribution to economic, social and environmental development in the countries in which we operate. We believe that, taken together, these commitments deliver the firm foundation of stakeholder support for our operations that is the key to sustainability.

Our approach to Assurance

Ernst & Young have reviewed the contents of the BG Group Sustainability Report 2008, which includes the printed sustainability report and HTML version as well as on-line content marked with the appropriate link to their statement. Ernst & Young's scope of work and conclusions can be found in their assurance statement and have been prepared against the principles of the AA1000 Assurance Standard (2003).