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Global Corporate Responsibility

I. Basics In the preparation of the report, the working group should focus on resolving these two issues:

a) The responsibility of the controlling company or holding company for the decisions it makes executing corporate control, in law and in fact, in relation to: (i). Minority and external partners; and, ii. Conflicts of interest. b) Responsibility of the controlling society and controlled companies, in each case, with the various groups interested in their commercial and social life (stakeholders).

II. Research elements The background topics to be explored by the working group for the preparation of such report are as follows:

1- The concept and nature of groups of companies and their relationship with multinational companies.

2- The integration of groups of companies, considering the principle of legal entity or legal personality, both of the controlling company and its controlled companies, and their effects, regarding the corporate responsibility of each of them.

3- The business advantages of the company group figure over various corporate and contractual schemes.

4- The economic, financial and legal efficiencies of the group of companies, as well as their flexibility to achieve economies of scale and scope, and their ability to function as conglomerates (i.e. those comprising companies with different commercial shifts).

5- The possible structures of groups of companies and their common transnational nature, as well as their "poly-corporate" operation in the international context.

6- The forms of control, dependence and dominance, both in law and in fact, that exist between the controlling society and the controlled companies, especially in the pyramid structure.

7- Conflicts of interest and possible self-regulation and regulation that may exist in the structure of the group of companies, specifically when they are conglomerates.

8- The corporate, legal and social responsibility of the controlling company, both foreign and national, of a multinational company, in relation with the actions of its controlled companies.

9- The occurrence of groups of companies with the phenomenon of outsourcing, as well as regulation on commercial competitions, anti-corruption rules and criminal liability within the group of companies.

10- A brief analysis of a relevant case about the corporate responsibility of a group of companies, for example, the Bhopal Disaster in India or Metalclad vs Mexico.

III. Special rules

The working group must add in Enclosure 1 a diagram of a group of real companies, which can be searched on the Internet under "corporate group structure".

In the diagram must be indicated which company is the main holding company and which of its companies are controlled

The working group may include topics that are diverse to those indicated, provided that they are related, but including fully those required.

It should be take into account that, as a report, it should incorporate data and information that support its findings and statements.