Glossary

Support for good causes, which can include one-off financial contributions, employee time, or Gifts-in-Kind. Charitable contributions are aligned to business rationale, generate goodwill for our company and are usually socially motivated.

A period of at least 30 calendar days prior to the release of the Company's half-year and full-year results.

Refers to non-public strategic information which is relevant to a company’s conduct on the market. For example: current or future prices (including margins, discounts etc.); input costs; sales volumes; production capacity; R&D or future technology plans; investment plans; marketing strategies. Information is generally not competitively sensitive if it is (i) public; (ii) historical; or (iii) aggregated and anonymised so that it cannot be attributed to an individual company.

Information, in any form, that is not in the public domain and is intended to be protected from disclosure. Information may be confidential whether or not it is labelled “confidential” or “proprietary” and whether it is oral, written, drawn or stored electronically. Labelling information “confidential” or “proprietary” or other classification does not automatically make the information Confidential Information. 

The time when an election campaign formally begins and when election campaign spending rules may be activated.

• Any employee of a State-Owned Company
• Officer or employee, or anyone acting on their behalf, of any department, agency, or instrument of a government (at any level). This includes (but is not limited to) employees and members of the military, paramilitary, security services, police force, customs, border patrol, legislatures, and judicial system of any country;
• elected political representative;
• political party and any officer, employee or other person acting on behalf of a political party;
• candidate for public office;
• member of a ruling or royal family;
• officer of any body, whether public or private, that has delegated powers to administer public funds;
• officer or employee of a public international organisation (for example, the United Nations and the World Bank);
• special adviser to governments, or individual government officials, whether paid or unpaid, formal, or informal; and
• family member of any of the above.

Information of a precise nature that: a) has not been made public; b) relates, directly or indirectly, to Rolls-Royce; and c) if it were made public, would be likely to have a significant effect of the Rolls-Royce share price (that is, information that a reasonable investor would be likely to use as part of the basis of their investment decisions).

Employee-run entity supported by voluntary employee contributions in support of US Members of Congress who support policies that positively impact our industry.

Any activity which requires an employee to interact or work with the Political Community, or deal with political matters in connection with Rolls-Royce business.

Activity intended to influence the actions, policies or decisions of governments and policy makers. 

A political advocate is someone (in-house or external third party) who represents the company to political stakeholders to inform, influence or create an effect in the company’s interest.

Any of the following:

• Political stakeholders: national/federal ministers and officials; elected representatives including at regional and local level; diplomats (e.g., Ambassador or High Commissioner), and any candidate for public office;
• Political party: organisations with the objective of acquiring and exercising political power;
• Trade association or industry group: also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, that is made up of a collection of companies and/or individuals with common interests or who work in the same industry.
• Think tank: think tanks being a group of experts working together to develop policy ideas and research to influence global, regional and national political policy. They can be focused on one sector or topic, or a broader area of policy.

A payment or transfer of value (which includes time) made to a political party, political organisation, any representatives of such parties, or individuals standing for public office.

Any activity involving personal data such as collection, use, manipulation, recording, storage, retrieval, adaptation, alteration, disclosure by transmission or otherwise, dissemination, destruction or erasure.

An individual who performs any or all of the activities defined by the systems security engineering process, regardless of their formal title. Additionally, this term refers to multiple individuals operating on the same team or cooperating teams.

 Any entity or individual other than Rolls-Royce, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and Joint Ventures.