BIC - 2019 Universal Registration Document

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

The BIC Sustainable Development Program and non-financial performance [NFPS]

3.1.1.5

The main CSR risks resulting from BIC’s

SDG 8. Decent work and economic growth. BIC contributes through the development of products and production modes that favor the efficient use of resources, including recycled materials (see pages 77 to 87 and 88 to 95). SDG 12. Responsible consumption and production. BIC contributes through the Company’s eco-design program, which provides consumers with information to help them make their purchasing choices, and through its monitoring and compliance program, which ensures that the products it markets are safe and comply with health and environmental standards (see pages 77 to 85). Within the direct scope of its operations or its sphere of direct influence – by making simple, reliable products that meet essential needs available to everyone, undertaking initiatives that provide support for its team members, offering various products and programs to promote access to education, reducing the environmental impacts of its factories, ensuring respect for Human Rights in its own factories and by its suppliers and subcontractors, and through the actions of its Corporate Foundation – the Group also contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: End poverty; SDG 1. Good health and well-being; SDG 3.

operations and the use of its goods and services  [NFPS] BIC identifies 9 non-financial risks resulting from its operations and the use of its goods and services: risks related to plastics: plastic waste and resource ● depletion  [NFPSrisk1] ; risks related to climate change [NFPS risk 2] ; ● risks related to product safety and consumer health and ● safety  [NFPS risk 3] ; risks related to health and safety of team members  [NFPS ● risk 4] ; risks related to non-respect of human rights (child labor, ● international conventions, ILO)  [NFPS risk 5] ; risks related to unfair practices (corruption)  [NFPS risk 6] ; ● risks related to our operations and the environment  [NFPS ● risk 7] ; risks related to reputation and brand  [NFPS risk 8] ; ● risks related to experienced team members and skills  [NFPS ● risk 9] . Risks related to tax evasion are not identified as major CSR risks for the Group. The method for identifying these risks and evaluating their degree of criticality is described in Chapter 2 of the present Universal Registration Document. Below, the summary table of the Non-Financial Performance Statement summarizes the elements required by French executive order No. 2017-1265 dated August 9, 2017 (for the application of decree No. 2017-1180 dated July 19, 2017 concerning the disclosure of non-financial information by certain large companies and corporate groups). Chapter 3 of the present Universal Registration Document presents these elements in detail, plus other elements of the CSR approach, concerning key areas that represent promising opportunities for the Group. The indications [NFPS] and [NFPS risk x] allow the reader to identify elements of the Group’s regulatory responses within the overall presentation of its sustainable development approach.

Quality education; SDG 4. Gender equality; SDG 5.

Clean water and sanitation; SDG 6. Affordable and clean energy; SDG 7. Industry, innovation and infrastructure; SDG 9. Reduced inequalities; SDG 10. Climate action; SDG 13. Life on land; SDG 15. Peace, justice and strong institutions. SDG 16.

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