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Sempra
Energy Trading Corp.
Code of Conduct
This
Code of Conduct ("Code") applies to the commodities
and derivatives trading activities of the Sempra Energy
Trading group of companies worldwide ("SET") and
reaffirms Sempra Energy's standards for maintaining a legally
compliant and ethical workplace. This Code is intended to
ensure that SET's business activities are conducted in compliance
with all applicable laws and regulations and in a manner
that is consistent with SET's high values and ethical standards.
This Code will also serve to guide the practices and decision-making
processes of SET employees in the course of providing commodity
and risk management services to SET's customers. Finally,
this Code assures that unlawful and unethical trading practices
will not be tolerated, that public disclosures of trading
information will be accurate, and that SET employees will
abide by these ethical standards.
I.
Ethical Standards
Sempra
Energy's value statement provides that "We act with
integrity, honesty, and respect". Our reputation depends
on our ability to maintain the achievement of those ideals
and to conduct business ethically. Ethical business conduct
is essential to our continued success. Accordingly, SET
will:
1.
Conduct its business in compliance with all applicable
international, federal, state and local laws, regulations,
tariffs and rules, including, without limitation, the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's "Market Behavior
Rules.".
2. Deal in good faith, with a commitment to honest dealing,
and not engage in fraudulent behavior.
3. Not engage in transactions without a legitimate business
purpose and which are intended to manipulate market prices,
market conditions, or market rules.
4. Not collude with other market participants to affect
the price or supply of commodity, manipulate or divide
markets, customers or products, or otherwise unlawfully
restrain competition.
5. Enforce risk management policies and structures that
are designed to ensure that trading activities are conducted
in accordance with this Code.
6. Properly record, classify, and summarize transactions
in accordance with Sempra Energy's accounting policies
to support Sempra Energy's policy of full, fair, accurate,
timely and understandable disclosure of financial results
and conditions.
7. Comply with rules that are designed to ensure the reliable
transmission of commodity.
II.
Sound Trading Practices
In the
conduct of its trading businesses, SET will:
1.
Commit or otherwise bid power or gas supply in a manner
that complies with the rules, regulations and guidelines
of the applicable market. SET may decide not to bid and
schedule resources available to it when such actions would
risk jeopardizing public health and safety or damaging
facilities, or to comply with facility licensing, environmental
or other legal requirements, or when such actions would
be uneconomic under the given circumstances so long as
no FERC-approved tariff or requirement mandates SET to
do so.
2. Not engage in electric energy transactions or schedule
electric energy resources with the intent of creating
congestion to manipulate prices or to jeopardize the security
of dispatch operations.
3. Not offer reliability services to the market that it
intends not to provide.
4. Not arrange and execute simultaneous offsetting buy
and sell trades that involve no economic risk and no net
change in beneficial ownership, i.e. with the same counterparty
and price, commodity, location and quantity terms, with
an intent to artificially affect reported revenues, trading
volumes or prices.
5. Not conduct trading for the purpose of misrepresenting
the financial condition of the organization.
III.
Information Disclosure and Documentation
SET
will:
1.
Provide accurate and factual market and transaction information
to regulators and market monitors in compliance with all
applicable rules and requirements and cooperate with regulators
and market monitors as reasonably necessary to assist
in their understanding of market operations.
2. Maintain and adhere to internal procedures designed
to ensure that all trades are properly documented in a
timely fashion and that no trades are concealed or misrepresented.
3. Maintain documentation on all transactions for an appropriate
period of time as required under applicable laws and regulations.
IV.
Communicating Price and Market Information to Outside Publications
Sempra Energy considers the price indices published by industry
publications as important to market transparency and liquidity.
Accordingly, SET is authorized to provide pricing and market
information, if requested, to these publications provided
SET abides by the following guidelines:
1.
The individuals providing the information are independent
of the trading desk(s) to which the information relates.
2. Exercise due diligence to provide accurate and factual
information, and not knowingly submit false or misleading
information or omit material information.
3. The response adheres to applicable legal and regulatory
requirements.
4. The information provided is documented in such a way
that enables subsequent verification and audit against
actual deals.
5. In accordance with applicable regulations, exclude
from reports to industry indices those transactions that
involve natural gas sales to affiliates.
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