The Group’s financials are assessed by the two leading international specialised ratings agencies: on reducing it from A1 to A2, and bringing the outlook from negative to stable, while on 128 17 April 2009 Standard & Poor’s modified its credit rating for Hera, assigning the rating A- (from A) to long-term debt, and the rating A-2 (from A-1) for short-term debt, with a negative outlook.