Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023

1. Information on the Company’s Activities 1.2 Non-Financial Information

Digitalisation, traceability and criticality mapping The Company leverages digitalisation as an enabler to optimise and reduce its environmental footprint. For example, all waste data is now collected and managed on a single Company-wide platform in order to provide a holistic view of the waste, enabling more efficient decision making at Company and site level. As recommended by the EU Critical Raw Material (“ CRM ”) framework, the Company has created and is maintaining a dedicated internal methodology to assess criticality of raw materials on the axis of supply risk, environmental and ethical impacts. Based on this, a regularly updated watchlist of the most critical raw materials for the Company has been defined to influence design choices. The mapping of Critical Raw Materials and Strategic Raw Materials in the Company’s commercial activity products is currently ongoing, based on available data. Competence management Circularity is a part of the Company’s sustainability and environment competency strategy. Accordingly, related training modules have been integrated in the Company’s training catalogue, such as “Circular economy – sustainable materials management”, “What is circular economy”, “Implementing circular economy processes”, “Circular design and manufacturing in practise”, “From linear to circular thinking”. The links between water use, climate and biodiversity are significant, with climate change and ecosystem degradation having the potential to exacerbate water stress and consequently affect water availability. The Company analyses current and projected local water stress levels to understand where the Company’s activities have the greatest impact on water resources and prioritise actions in these areas ( e.g. south of Spain, northern China). This analysis is based inter alia on the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas 4.0 tool, using the “baseline” data as well as the 2030 scenarios. Due diligence aspects with regards to the potential environmental impacts including on water resources in the Company supply chain are described in section “– 1.2.15 Responsible Supply Chain”. Water discharge quality is managed by each site directly to ensure compliance with applicable local regulatory requirements.

packaging for reuse or sending to relevant waste collectors while managing parts traceability. In 2023, the Company, Tarmac Aerosave and the City of Chengdu established a joint venture for the first aircraft “lifecycle” services centre in China. The new facility will cover a range of activities from aircraft parking and storage, to maintenance, upgrades, conversions, dismantling and recycling services for various aircraft types. Overall, TARMAC has provided dismantling, recycling and disposal services in respect of over 300 decommissioned aircraft since 2007. Lifecycle thinking and conscious design The Company invests in lifecycle assessments (LCA) for environmental impact accounting associated with a specific product, in accordance with the requirements specified in the ISO14040 standard. LCA studies have been finalised for all commercial aircraft products delivered in 2023. In addition, the Company is deploying frameworks enabling environmentally-conscious design choices to reduce the footprint of projects and optimise aspects such as product end-of-life management and critical raw materials usage. For instance, environmental assessments are being used to assist the research & technology decision-making processes related to commercial aircraft activities. The Defence and Space Division also uses LCA as part of the development of the Sentinel satellites that are built for the European Space Agency. I. Introduction The Company’s water usage is mostly linked to non‑industrial uses, including sanitary, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, canteens and fire extinguishing. Around one third of the water withdrawn is used for industrial uses such as climate control of industrial facilities ( e.g. clean rooms for satellite assembly; paintshops), surface treatment, machining and non-destructive testing. This section covers both withdrawal and discharge. Procuring the required water does not currently represent a material cost for the Company as overall withdrawn volumes are relatively limited, especially for its industrial operations. However, securing water availability to operate the industrial processes requiring water is critical for the Company and its supply chain to ensure business continuity. As such, water aspects are included in the Company’s LCA approach. 1.2.5 Water

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Universal Registration Document 2023