NATIONAL FRAMEWORK PROTOCOL OF LEGALITY

We have identified the procurement system as a key element of our ability to develop and remain competitive in our reference markets, and we have always paid constant attention to ensuring maximum transparency in this context as well. It is indeed in our interest to ensure compliance with legality and to protect the market from mafia interference, as well as from undue interference and pressure from common crime, by preventing any possible attempt of infiltration by organized crime during the awarding phase of contracts, in investments and in the conduct of production activities.

To this end, since 1999 we have initiated strengthened cooperation with territorially competent authorities, which over time has led to the signing of Protocols of Legality and Transparency, culminating on 27 February 2017, with the signing of a single National Framework Protocol of Legality with the Ministry of the Interior, aimed at preventing attempts of infiltration by organized crime. The agreement represents a fundamental milestone that unifies, at the national level, the procedures for anti-mafia checks on companies considered "high risk" operating under contract and subcontract at all Fincantieri Group sites, ensuring valuable information exchange and, should any potential critical issues arise, granting Fincantieri the ability to adopt the most appropriate precautionary measures while also ensuring the necessary confidentiality for the parties involved.

By virtue of this contractual instrument, we also require the relevant supply chain to ensure the highest levels of transparency and integrity and to fulfill obligations to counter and report any phenomena attributable to criminal association, including mafia-type organizations, and, by way of example, to corruption, fraud, money laundering and extortion.