OREANDA-NEWS. On November 12, in Moscow, during the 11th Annual Conference "Annual Reports: Leaders' Experience and New Standards," Expert RA international rating agency presented its quality rating for annual reports. In terms of development quality, the ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. (JSC Atomredmetzoloto) Integrated Annual Report was named one of the TOP-5 reports prepared by 140 leading companies based in Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine.

The Expert RA (RAEX) international rating agency has undertaken expert evaluation of annual reports for the third successive year. Subsequent to results of 2013 annual report assessment, NLMK took the leading position, FGC UES came second and Severstal moved into third place.

Analysts from Expert RA (RAEX) note that this year's innovation is that a non-profit partnership (NPP Sovet Rynka), social organizations (Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation) and Russian state corporations (Vnesheconombank, Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance) have been included in the rating.

For the first time, the Report has been prepared under the basic level of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4.0 Guidelines. This year, the Report focused on revealing the most critical aspects identified by polling stakeholders. Business model presentation with account for a value creation process became the Report's new feature. Also for the first time, the Report included brief sections on JSC Rusburmash and JSC VNIPIpromtechnologii operations.