The Filtrona Board is accountable to all the Company's stakeholders, as well as shareholders, for the standards of governance which are maintained across Filtrona's diverse range of international businesses.

Filtrona is committed to high standards of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and risk management throughout the Company.

Compliance with the Combined Code
As a listed company, Filtrona confirms that throughout the year ended 31 December 2009 the Company has complied with the 2008 version of the Combined Code of Corporate Governance issued by the Financial Reporting Council (the ‘Code’), in particular with the Main Principles set out in section 1 of the Code.

The Company applies the Code's principles of openness, integrity and accountability through its own behaviour, corporate governance best practice and by adopting, as appropriate and proportionate for a company of the size and nature of Filtrona, recommendations of relevant professional bodies. The policies and procedures adopted by the Board and applicable to the Filtrona businesses are documented in a manual which also sets out the roles and delegated authorities applying to the Board, the Executive Committee and the businesses. These policies and procedures together with any new requirements or further updates, are communicated across the Group whenever necessary.