In addition to constituting an instrument that is essential for ensuring the ef fective management and control of corporate activities, the corporate gover nance system adopted by Enel is meant to ensure: > the creation of value for shareholders, > the quality of customer service, > the control corporate risk , > transparency with regard to the market, > the reconciliation of the interests of all shareholders, with particular regard to small ones, and > awareness of the social significance of the activities in which Enel is engaged and the consequent necessity – when carrying them out – of considering ap propriately all the interests involved.