Governance

Governance of Rio Tinto

The board of Rio Tinto believes that high standards of corporate governance are essential to their objective of maximising the overall long term return to shareholders through a strategy of investing in large, low cost competitive mines and businesses. Given its dual listed company status and its structure as a single economic entity, Rio Tinto has adopted a common approach to corporate governance to comply with the regulatory obligations associated with its three main stock exchange listings in London, Australia and New York.

The directors have referred to The Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published by the UK Financial Reporting Council (the Code), the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations 2nd edition (the ASX Principles), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Corporate Governance Standards (the NYSE Standards). Statements of compliance with the requirements of these codes are in Compliance statements.

In addition Rio Tinto's website contains further corporate governance information which can be found in the Shareholders section: http://www.riotinto.com/shareholders/.

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