(1) The principal objectives of every company SOC are--
(a) to be a successful
business and, to this end--
(i) to operate at least as efficiently as any
comparable businesses, and
(ii) to maximise the net worth of the State's
investment in the SOC, and
(b) to exhibit a sense of social responsibility by
having regard to the interests of the community in which it operates, and
(c)
where its activities affect the environment, to conduct its operations in
compliance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development
contained in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration
Act 1991 , and
(d) to exhibit a sense of responsibility towards regional
development and decentralisation in the way in which it operates.
(2) Each of
the principal objectives of a company SOC is of equal importance.