Environment

As an online company, we believe we have a relatively low impact on the environment but recognise that as with any commercial enterprise, the day-to-day running of our business will inevitably have consequences. We are fully committed to minimising the effects our operations may have on the environment. We aim to review our procedures on a regular basis to assess the possible impact of our business practices and to determine where improvements can be made in a cost-effective way.

PartyGaming complies with and aims to exceed applifcable environmental laws, regulations and industry standards in all of the countries in which it operates.

Implementation of ISO standards
As part of this commitment, we have reviewed our health and safety and environmental practices at our head office in Gibraltar to attain certification for the Health and Safety (OHSAS 18001) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14000) standards. This achievement is a first for an online gaming company in Gibraltar and our goal is for all of our other offices to obtain similar certification for both standards.

These standards provide management tools that will enable the Group to monitor and improve its environmental performance by ensuring we:

continue to develop and maintain a suitable environmental policy;
establish a high level environmental management system setting out responsibilities, authorities, relationships, functions, processes, practices, procedures and resources;
identifies the most significant environmental aspects of PartyGaming's past, present and future activities, products and services;
clarify and respect all legal and regulatory requirements in relation to the environment;
set appropriate environmental objectives and targets that
creates and builds on existing processes to ensure that environmental objectives and targets are met; and
continually monitor and improve the environmental management system.

Recycling
We are committed to the introduction of more recycling programmes throughout our businesses and wherever practicable materials such as paper, computer equipment and printer consumables are already recycled.

Energy consumption
With a limited number of office locations and total staff numbers of approximately 1,200 worldwide, the Group's total energy consumption is small when compared with many other global businesses. However, the Group has taken a number of steps to ensure that this is kept to a minimum wherever possible:

air conditioning and other electrical systems are turned off when not required, such as late at night or at weekends;
energy efficient light sources are fitted in many of our offices and we are looking at introducing them across all of our facilities; and
computers, monitors and other electrical equipment are switched off outside of working hours to avoid wastage.

Suppliers
We aim to work with quality suppliers and also to encourage them to adopt a similar approach to our own regarding low impact environmental policies and principles.