Commitment and Transparency: Eurocaja Rural Receives AENOR's Corporate Governance Certification with Highest Rating (G++)

Eurocaja Rural has been awarded the AENOR Corporate Governance Index 2.0 certificate with the highest rating (G++), highlighting the robustness of the financial institution's governance model, as well as the quality and accessibility of the information published on its website, reflecting the Caja's commitment to transparency.

The President of Eurocaja Rural, Javier López Martín, received this recognition from David de Pastors, General Director of Conformity Assessment at AENOR, in a ceremony also attended by Eurocaja Rural's General Director, Víctor Manuel Martín López, the legal advisor and director of the Institutional Cabinet Division of Eurocaja Rural, Sonia Gómez Sánchez, the Secretary General of Eurocaja Rural, Andrés Gómez Colón, and the Director of AENOR in Castilla-La Mancha, Antonio Contreras.

The AENOR Corporate Governance Index allows companies to identify improvement actions in governance and assess the impact of their implementation. Specifically, the AENOR certification is structured around a series of standardised metrics that evaluate the degree of compliance in Corporate Governance, based on 7 variables with a total of 180 indicators each, to which individual scores, criteria, and a tiered certification system have been associated.

According to the President of Eurocaja Rural, "this certification corroborates our rigorous commitment to operate with the highest standards of corporate governance, such as the Composition of the Governing Board, its Functioning and competencies, Transparency, or Compliance, among others. For our Institution, it is a great satisfaction to receive this distinction and an additional motivation to persevere in our way of proceeding, always at the service and for the benefit of our thousands of members and clients."

Meanwhile, the AENOR representative assured that "a good ESG strategy is vital for organisations to align with the values demanded by today's society. Eurocaja Rural is committed to these values, one of which is to develop good Governance practices. This is demonstrated to all its stakeholders through the trust that the AENOR Corporate Governance certificate in its recent version 2.0 inspires, which we have developed oriented to the characteristics and specific needs of large companies due to their seriousness and solvency."

It is important to highlight that the percentage of women in the current composition of Eurocaja Rural's Governing Board is 50%, with 7 female directors now part of this body out of a total of 14 members. The new composition of the Governing Board maintains the significant role and weight attributed to women, thus advocating for inclusion and gender equity.

On the other hand, Eurocaja Rural has independent directors with technical and qualified profiles.

All the Entity's directors have extensive professional experience linked to sectors of special significance such as law, medicine, economics, finance, business, agri-food, physical-technological, or education.

With this recognition, Eurocaja Rural reaffirms its commitment to excellence in management and compliance with the highest standards in corporate governance, consolidating its prestige, reputation, and trust among its stakeholders.