Remuneration report

Introduction

This report forms part of the Directors' report and covers the following information:

a description of the Remuneration committee and its duties;
a description of the policy on directors', product group chief executives' and company secretaries' remuneration;
a summary of the terms of executive directors' and product group chief executives' contracts and non executive directors' letters of appointment;
details of each director's and product group chief executive's remuneration and awards under long term incentive plans and the link to corporate performance;
details of directors' and product group chief executives' interests in Rio Tinto shares; and
graphs illustrating Group performance, including relative to the HSBC Global Mining Companies' Index.