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The DOWA group set forth its "CSR Policy" to promote CSR activities from a long-term point of view in connection with the Mid-Term Plan V that started in 2012. We will strengthen our CSR activities together with the management based on the policy on a global basis.

CSR Policy

The DOWA group prepared the CSR Policy based on the Dowa Group's Corporate Philosophy and Standards of Conduct, referring to the rules of United Nations Global Compact Guidelines. We endeavor to share the policy with all employees and implement it in our CSR efforts.

	All employees will take part spontaneously in safety activities to improve the level of safety and hygiene in the workplace, based on our basic philosophy of "Safety is the top priority." We are committed to preventing accidents at work and supporting health of employees.
	We will provide customers (clients and local communities) with products and services that contribute to building a resource-recycling society. We will reduce environmental burden and risk in our business activities. The management and employees together take part in environmental conservation activities. We will promote business activities considering biodiversity.
	We will promote social contribution appropriate with community standards together with local communities.
	We will aim at being an open, transparent company to society. We will respect international agreements and strive to prevent corruption such as bribery. We will make procurement considering CSR.

Priority List of CSR

We evaluated ourselves based on the key focus of ISO 26000 when we set forth our CSR Policy and set forth a priority list of CSR that the DOWA group should address in implementing the policy. We are committed to promoting sound business management through implementation of the policy as a responsible company.

	We will improve our risk management. We will enhance our safety education program throughout the group.
	We will aggressively promote environmentally-friendly products and new energy fields. We will conduct a survey on biodiversity and prepare the guideline.
	We will strengthen internal control and governance. We will prepare the CSR procurement guidelines.
	We will promote diversity and work-life balance. We will promote CSR education.

Corporate Governance

The DOWA group set forth the Dowa Group's Values and Standards of Conduct so that each employee to be aware that a company is a public institution, comply with laws and regulations and take a sensible course of action.
We also strive to ensure sound business management, focusing on enhancement of corporate governance through internal control; improve quality and efficiency of management to implement open, highly transparent management.

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Internal Control Activities

To strengthen corporate governance, we encourage each company in the group to prepare a document titled "About Internal Control System,", and then place internal control system in operation.
As part of implementing and operating internal control, we also prepare written procedures and workflows on accounting, identify risks of errors and unfair conduct, observe and evaluate processes by internal auditing. To improve efficiency of auditing in 2011, we integrated overlapping internal auditing activities but only to the extent of not to hindering audit effectiveness.
We also conducted auditing of newly consolidated overseas operating companies and interviews on the status of internal control and CSR activities in local communities, including preparation of standards of conduct and other rules.
We will continue to promote internal control activities for risk management and better business performance to further increase our corporate value.

J-SOX Promotion
Committee members
and Secretariat

We take part in the internal control activities as members of the Promotion Committee to ensure appropriateness of financial reports required by the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The committee is engaged in a wide range of activities including preparation of ledger sheets required for auditing and self-evaluation of the internal control of our own operating companies group. Through these activities we learned that business activities are changing and new risks arise every day. Therefore we must endeavor to reduce risks through internal control. However, we try to avoid too much rigidness as it would be best to conduct our activities naturally and spontaneously.

Environmental & Social Goals and Their Present Statuses

The DOWA group is engaged in a variety of CSR activities according to our CSR Policy.
In 2011, we started recovery of nickel and tin and made presentation at overseas conferences on our research results of arsenic recovery from discharged water. We succeeded in keeping the purchased electricity to the level of the previous year in our environmental management & recycling business and metal processing business. However, total domestic emission of CO₂ increased by 2% year-on-year due to the increase of consumption of fossil fuel in our environmental management & recycling business. The basic unit of CO₂ emission decreased by 1% year-on-year.

Item	Goal and Result	Page
Offering products and services contributing to building a resource-recycling society	Recovery of nickel and tin started.	more
Reduction of environmental impact and environmental risk in our business activities	Global Warming MeasuresMedium-term goal: average 10% reduction of CO₂ emission during 2008 - 2012, compared to 2006 CO₂ emission ->14% increase compared to 2009 Unit CO₂ emission ->210% decrease compared to 2009	more
	Promotion of Afforestation Maintenance of existing forests (thinning): 66.29 ha in Akita Prefecture (21.5 ha in Kazuno City and 44.79 ha in Kosaka-machi) Newly planted young trees: Akita Prefecture 8,600 trees, Okayama Prefecture 112 trees	more
Promoting environmental conservation activities	Promotion of enlightenment on global warming measures and environmental conservation Giving away Japanese fans and cooler bags at the Annual Shareholder's Meeting Offering environmental education to customers Eco-event of "Parents and Children Environmental Classes" (at the headquarters in August)	more
	Activities contributing to local communities Tree fostering convention (June), marathon race (November), planting ceremony (December) and Cherry Blossom Festival (March) of "Kojima Lake Blossom Corridor (Okayama Prefecture) Kosaka Home Town Afforestation Planting Ceremony (in Akita in July) DOWA Cup Cross Country Ski Festival (in Akita in February)	more
	External environmental education Environmental education in an elementary school (Chiba Prefecture) Accepting students to our on-site training and plant visits.	more.1 more.2

Our Vision to Fight Global Warming

graph The DOWA group set a goal of "10% reduction during 2008 - 2012, compared to 2006" as a goal to fight against global warming and incorporated the goal in our business plan. In addition to promoting energy saving in existing facilities and renewing existing power generation facilities and plants, we strive to conduct activities with a view to reduce CO₂ by utilizing fuel conversion as well as using renewable energy and biodiesel.
We are reviewing the long term goals for 2013 on and we will set the goals within this fiscal year.
In the long term, we aim at being a carbon neutral company, thereby CO₂ emission in connection with business activities is offset by reduction effect of global warming gas, through our efforts to reduce CO₂ emission in business activities and reduce global warming gas in our CFC destruction business.