Corporate Governance - Compliance with the Combined Code
The Directors consider that the Company has, during the year ended 31 December 2007, complied with the requirements of the
Combined Code with the following exceptions:
- for a short period of time between the resignation of Edward Roderick (31 May 2007) and the appointment of Stephen Rogers (4 July 2007) the Company was not compliant with:
- Code Provision A.3.2 in relation to the number of Non-Executive Directors.
- Code Provision A.4.1 in relation to the membership of the Nomination Committee.
- Code Provision B.2.1 in relation to the membership of the Remuneration Committee.
- Code Provision C.3.1 in relation to the membership of the Audit Committee.
- the Board does not strictly comply with Combined Code Provision D.1.1 in respect of communications between Non-Executive Directors and shareholders as described in the Relations with Shareholders section of the Annual Report.