Appendix
Reporting principles
| Sustainability context | The Report provides information about the Gazprom Group’s production activities and its impact on the country’s economy, as well as about Gazprom’s environmental and climate protection activities, interaction with staff and local communities, and contribution to the UN sustainable development goals. |
| Materiality | The Report covers material topics, issues and indicators related to Gazprom’s economic, environmental, and social impact. The materiality of the information in the Report is determined on the basis of the assessment of Gazprom’s performance in the reporting period by its leadership, as well as on the basis of stakeholders’ opinion. |
| Stakeholder inclusiveness | Owing to Gazprom’s systemic approach to stakeholder engagement, the Report covers information that is of relevance to stakeholders. |
| Completeness | The Report contains information on all areas of Gazprom’s sustainable development activities in the reporting period in accordance with the GRI Standards and the GRI Oil and Gas Sector Supplement. |
| Balance | The Report includes both information on Gazprom’s achievements and references to the areas where certain processes need to be improved. |
| Comparability | Gazprom’s economic, environmental, and social performance in the reporting period is compared to that in previous years. The comparison allows stakeholders to evaluate Gazprom’s performance in those areas. |
| Accuracy | Gazprom is committed to providing accurate information on its performance results so that they can be objectively assessed by stakeholders. The Report uses both qualitative descriptions and quantitative information based on financial and statistical reports. |
| Timeliness | The Report provides stakeholders with relevant information on Gazprom’s operations and activities in the reporting period. |
| Clarity | The information presented in the Report is clear and easy to understand for a broad audience: highly specialized terms are used only where appropriate, with terms and abbreviations explained in the Glossary. Information that requires special knowledge is omitted from the Report. To visualize information, various tables, diagrams, charts, and infographics are used in the Report. |
| Reliability | The information in the Report is reliable, ascertainable and verifiable. Gazprom’s Sustainability Report has been approved independently by FBK LLC and received public assurance from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), a national non-governmental organization. |
* Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Nadym LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar LLC, Gazprom Pererabotka LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Surgut LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Ukhta LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Moscow LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Saint Petersburg LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Makhachkala LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Stavropol LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Saratov LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Volgograd LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Samara LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Ufa LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Kazan LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Krasnodar LLC, OJSC Gazprom Transgaz Belarus, Gazprom UGS LLC.
** Gazpromneft-Yamal LLC, JSC Messoyakhaneftegaz, JSC Gazpromneft-NNG, Gazpromneft-Khantos LLC, Gazpromneft-Vostok LLC, Gazpromneft-Orenburg LLC, Slavneft-Megionneftegaz LLC , JSC Gazpromneft — ONPZ, JSC Gazpromneft — MNPZ, NIS, OJSC Slavneft — YANOS, JSC Gazpromneft MZSM, Gazpromneft-RZBM LLC, and OZSM.