“Given the specific nature of the facilities of the EADS Group which are used for many activities relating to national defence and sensitive civil markets, the conditions governing access to and movements inside the plants and facilities are specified in ministerial orders and are based on two main principles:

• access to a plant is subject to prior authorisation by the company; and
• entry into restricted and sensitive areas is regulated in accordance with national and company regulations.”

EADS has set up a security policy to improve the security of its employees and to protect EADS expertise. A Security Committee has been set up as a combination of Security leaders from each country and each Division who supervise their local security officers at BU and plant level, and who deal with national security authorities and European security organisations.

The network of security managers is there to ensure information exchange and sharing of best practices. Working groups are created to facilitate constant adaptation of security measures to actual threats. Access to EADS facilities is subject to prior authorisation, and entry into restricted and sensitive areas is regulated in accordance with national and company regulations. The awareness of the EADS employees is addressed as a main success factor.

The increasing development of EADS business outside Europe implies to reinforce the safety of EADS employees in risky countries and to improve the security of EADS offices abroad.

In terms of IT security, appropriate steps were taken to audit processes and improve the level of awareness of EADS employees to the security of the information systems. Given the sensitive nature of the Group’s business, employees must be able, in order to meet the business needs, to always work in compliance with group security policies ; hence, the Group implements, for instance, secured nomad IT solutions facilitating mobility and business reactivity with confidence.

In 2006, a particular focus was developed on risk management, addressing and challenging all the security matters and business security needs. Particularly, new procedures have been defines and implementation to specific applications has begun (e.g.e-HR).