Company health services are maintained by a hired service. Nord Pool's activities do not cause any pollution of the external environment in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, or Finland. There is a shareholders' agreement between the owners. Nord Pool's owners are assessing a change in the company structure and ownership structure, partly so as to offer Fingrid Oyj, the Finnish central grid company, an ownership share in the business area that includes Nordic physical market trade. The company's recorded equity as of 31 December 1999 was NOK 109.5 million, of which NOK 43 million is distributable reserves.
Surplus liquidity is placed in bank deposits.
The company's liquidity is satisfactory. The recorded equity as of year-end 1999 was approximately NOK 6 million. The company showed a small profit in 1999. The international focus on Nord Pool as the world's leading electric power exchange intensified throughout 1999. Nord Pool enjoys international recognition, in part because it is a multinational exchange with an integrated concept, offering trading solutions for a physical-delivery market, a financial power market, and associated clearing services.