The exercise in Switzerland and abroad of activities related to the import, export, procurement, shipping, wholesale and retail sale, and supply of gases of any kind in all their applications, including the following activities. Research, selection, purchase and management of natural gas supplies at competitive prices on national and international markets for sale to its customers and partners. Provision of services related to the procurement of natural gas, such as regasification, transportation by ship or through pipelines, storage and other similar logistical services. Exercise and management, also through third-party resources, of seasonal and peak seasonal, daily and hourly modulation services related to the supply of natural gas. Provision of technical, commercial and contractual services related to the sale and supply of natural gas, also through computer and telematic technologies. Trading of energy products in Switzerland and abroad. The production, distribution and sale of electricity. The exercise, in Switzerland and abroad, of the activity of purchasing, selling, exchanging, importing and exporting electricity, regardless of how it is produced, as well as the provision of related services, excluding the exercise of the activity of production, transmission and distribution in the countries of the European Union pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 79 of 16 March 1999. For the purposes mentioned above, the Company may carry out all commercial, industrial and financial operations, movable and immovable, related to the corporate purpose, with the specification that financial activity is not the object of the company's own activity and may therefore be carried out only in a purely ancillary and instrumental manner to the main activity, in any case not with the public. Solely for the purpose of achieving the aforementioned purpose and, therefore, in a purely instrumental manner, the company may acquire participations and interests in other companies or businesses with an object similar or related to its own, as well as provide guarantees, sureties, and real guarantees, excluding any relationship with the public in such areas of activity. All activities must be carried out within the limits and in compliance with the regulations governing their exercise.