Aéroports de Paris - 2019 Universal registration document

SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY INFORMATION 15 OPERATING IN AN EXEMPLARY WAY

disadvantaged populations. Each project supported by the Foundation has a sponsor who is a company employee and acts as the interface between the association leading the project and the Foundation. Groupe ADP’s Foundation is steered by a Board of Directors chaired by Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO of Aéroports de Paris - Groupe ADP, which sets the Foundation’s directions and monitors its control. A Selection Committee meets once a year to analyse the supporting application files in the intervention areas covered by the Foundation’s Articles of Association and set the subsidy amounts. Achievements and results In 2019, 206 employees gave time out of their working or personal time to the associations supported by the Foundation, through five programmes: sponsorship, tutoring-coaching for young local secondary- school students, tutoring by employees of our service providers with # Stopillettrisme (Stop Illiteracy), expertise sponsorship or solidarity leave. In 2019, seven employees took part in international educational and environmental solidarity missions in Indonesia, Madagascar and Benin. A new senior expertise sponsorship programme was piloted with an employee on assignment at Aviation Without Borders for a two-year period. At the start of 2019, this programme was integrated into the GPEC agreement and five employees currently benefit from it within associations such as Aviation Sans Frontières, Solidarité Nouvelle pour le Logement and Hubschool 21. In 2019, the Foundation paid € 1,000,000 to 49 projects. this plan attaches considerable importance to management setting an example, awareness-raising and training (9,000 group employees trained via e-learning and around 500 in face to face training sessions), along with employee understanding and perception. The ethics climate barometer measures the spread of this ethics and compliance culture. Risks related to ethics and compliance are described in the Risk Management chapter. They are steered by the Ethics Division together with the Legal and Insurance Division. Achievements and results The vigilance plan The law of 27 March 2017 creates a duty of vigilance for parent companies and order providers with regard to their subsidiaries, as well as sub- contractors and suppliers, in order to protect against serious violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the health and safety of people and the environment. Subsidiaries and companies controlled within the meaning of article L. 233-16 of the French Commercial Code are concerned along with leading service providers with which the group has a long-term business relationship and for which social, environmental and ethics risk mappings covering corruption have been drawn up. All group employees and suppliers may use the whistle-blowing mechanism deployed in 2018 for ethics and compliance (see the chapter on Whistle-blowing). In 2019, no alerts under the Potier law were recorded.

Centre, updating of the entrevoisins.org website weekly, etc.). Work site visits were also organised before and during the works. The Val-de-Marne and Essonne departments also wanted to launch Les Rencontres d’Orly alongside Groupe ADP, as a co-building approach to bring together a wider circle of relevant players and regional representatives in order to prepare together in a sustainable way a concerted strategy targeting all of the key structural issues for the future of the Orly/Rungis hub, with notably and as a priority: ◆ the environment and sustainable development; ◆ mobility and travel; ◆ economic development and access to employment. These four days of dialogue brought together almost 400 participants.

Groupe ADP Foundation Policy and objectives

Groupe ADP’s Foundation represents the Company’s wish to link economic development with a commitment to serve the regional and human environment. It supports general interest projects in the regions where Groupe ADP operates in France and abroad, prioritising education through the fight against illiteracy and the prevention of school dropouts, predominantly for

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The fight against tax fraud Present in around 20 countries, Groupe ADP deploys its tax policy

according to three main principles: ◆ prevalence of the business activity;

◆ fair taxation of operations; ◆ management of tax risks.

Its policy is in line with OECD standards which aim, on the one hand, to locate and tax revenue in the country where the business is carried out and, on the other, to improve transparency and the level of information on transfer prices, notably via Country by Country Reporting (CBCR) to eliminate all tax evasion situations. As a matter of principle, the group rejects investments in tax havens or countries considered to be uncooperative for tax purposes unless these investments are justified by real economic activities (for example, an airport) other than tax savings.

Governance and ethics Policy and objectives

For Groupe ADP, ethics and compliance cover compliance with laws and regulations and the group’s four values: trust, commitment, audacity and openness. Deployed since 2018, the Ethics and Compliance action plan is validated every year by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors and its Audit and Risk Committee. As ethics and compliance firstly require a change in culture rather than a change in procedures,

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