Environmental protection: a Group-wide responsibility

Deutsche Post World Net is aware of its responsibility for environmental protection and sustainable development. We aim to improve our environmental protection processes, to increase resource efficiency, and to consider economic, social and environmental aspects equally in the course of conducting our business. We are already working toward these aims, and have had particular success in the area of transport:

• For our overnight airmail network we only use quiet, noise-certified aircraft.
  
• The majority of the vehicles in our fleet already comply with the Euro 2 and Euro 3 exhaust gas emissions standards.
  
• By the end of 2002, our “Parcel Intercity” project, in collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, should result in 100,000 fewer truck journeys every year through the use of rail transport.

We have already set up comprehensive environmental management systems, certified under DIN ISO 14001, in important areas of our logistics activities. In the medium term,we aim to expand this certification to include the Business Divisions Express Germany and Express Europe.

To make our business activities even more environmentally friendly, we are optimizing our routes to reduce deadhead trips, limiting the number of night flights, ensuring ecologically sound facilities management, and using recyclable material for packaging.

Deutsche Post World Net is committed to keeping its shareholders, its customers and the public informed about its environmental activities on a regular basis.We hope to produce a separate environmental report for the first time in 2003. In 2001, the Group created the Policy and Environment Corporate Department in order to manage these measures effectively.