Corporate Governance

The Yokogawa Group recognizes that the basic mission of corporate management is to secure sound and sustainable growth, and to earn the trust of its shareholders and other stakeholders. Accordingly, the Group is implementing measures to enhance corporate governance in order to achieve a sound and profitably run organization. The Company employs a corporate auditor system and has a Board of Directors that monitors directors in the execution of their duties and a Board of Corporate Auditors that monitors the Board of Directors. We are enhancing this system by utilizing independent outside directors and corporate auditors. Through these systems, the Company is bolstering the effectiveness of its corporate governance.

Speedy decision making and transparency are ensured through deliberations between directors who are well versed in the Group's business and outside directors who maintain a high degree of independence. Through audits by the corporate auditors, the legality, efficiency, and rationality of the directors' activities and the appropriateness of their decisions are rigorously examined.

The Yokogawa Group has set forth its basic compliance policies in the Standards of Business Conduct for the Yokogawa Group, and directors take the lead in working to see that business ethics are upheld and embraced throughout the Group. In addition, the Yokogawa Group Internal Control Systems, which are intended in part to ensure the reliability of financial statements and the propriety of decision making, guarantee the appropriateness and efficiency of Group operations.

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