› directly monitors the strategic and financial risks linked to business operation (Group Risk Management) via strategic planning with the companies and the management of relations with the financial/banking system in order to cover the Group’s financial needs; › establishes monitoring systems for the technological/operating/legal risks arising in contract execution (Programme Risk Management) and, more generally, the activities managed independently by the operating companies, issuing directives and guidelines which are implemented by these companies through specific procedures and which are responsible for their actual application.