Management framework

BAA Scotland has established a dedicated community strategy group which will assist in formulating and implementing BAA Scotland community policy. The new group meets quarterly to share best practice, develop new ideas and feedback the views of communities and stakeholders.

BAA Scotland’s new Managing Director Stephen Baxter is responding to our drive to ensure that the environment and our communities are at the top of our agenda. Stephen is leading a corporate responsibility review group which is designed to ensure that we continue to address these challenges. The group first met in June 2006.

BAA and airport level corporate responsibility programmes are supported by management systems that have long-term objectives and annual targets. To help ensure effective and integrated management, guidance has been issued to each of BAA's businesses in the form of a management framework.

Assurance
Within BAA, senior managers need assurance that policies are being delivered and that we have an accurate assessment of our performance. Externally, our stakeholders need assurance that our reporting provides a comprehensive and accurate assessment of BAA's efforts in this field. We deliver that assurance in a number of different ways, including our internal audit process and an annual review by our external corporate responsibility assurance provider, ERM.

Benchmarking
To allow us to assess how we are performing relative to our peers and to ensure we have the appropriate level of ambition we participate in a range of benchmarking exercises.