• “EADS is proud of selling its products and providing its services to an increasing number of countries, thanks to the trust placed by international customers in its global reputation.
• EADS is conscious of its responsibility as a global company in the spreading of sound international business practices that foster the expansion of a balanced and fair globalisation benefiting all countries.
• EADS encourages industrial cooperation with local industries whenever possible in order to support the development of skills and competencies.
• EADS supports local initiatives dedicated to the promotion of corporate social responsibility-oriented projects.”

In 2005, EADS put in place a new organisation in order to design, coordinate and implement the international industrial development of EADS. This followed the conclusions of the GIS (Global Industrial Strategy) study which had been launched in 2004.

The EADS Executive Committee has created as of November 2005 a new corporate function, GID (Global Industrial Development), focusing on the implementation of the Group’s global industrial footprint. This will complement the EADS International function, which continues to lead the marketing process and to develop the regional strategies.

The main missions of the newly created GID function are to be EADS’ industrial architect in the countries where it is expanding and to drive the global industrial expansion, which includes not only manufacturing projects but also engineering, R&T and services initiatives, as well as structural partnerships. Countries within GID’s scope include all countries outside home countries (France, Germany, Spain, U.K.).

GID will act as a driving force to nurture new projects and to support BUs. It will also act as a moderator to orchestrate actions across the Group and the countries, and to preserve all EADS stakeholders’ long-term interests (shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees). In particular, GID will promote the Group Corporate Social Responsibility in countries where EADS is present.

EADS shall report in a timely fashion on the definition of industrial action plans in targeted countries, and on the implementation of industrial projects in these countries.