It is BT's policy to achieve best practice in our standards of business integrity for all our operations around the world. This includes a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance and ethics throughout the group.
The directors consider that BT has, throughout the year, complied with the provisions set out in section 1 of the 2003 Combined Code on Corporate Governance. This follows previous years of compliance by British Telecommunications plc before the demerger of 02 plc (formerly mm02 plc) in November 2001.
