BIC - 2020 Universal Registration Document

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Sustainable Development program [NFPS]

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 3.1. PROGRAM [NFPS]

Sustainability is deeply rooted in BIC’s Values and is an integral part of its day-to-day operations. For nearly 15 years, it has played a fundamental role in BIC’s strategy, helping guide its various endeavors, especially its social and societal actions. In keeping with its core mission, the Group’s ambition is to ensure that it has a limited impact on the environment and society, and that it makes a meaningful contribution to the lives of its teammembers and the planet over the long term. Through its “Writing the Future, Together” program, BIC seeks to build on its longstanding involvement in sustainable development and to bolster its engagement by pledging to five commitments for the period of 2018 to 2025. In 2020, seeking to go even further, the BIC Group announced additional commitments related to its basic commitment #1 Fostering sustainable innovation in BIC products. These new commitments will fundamentally transform the Group’s approach to the use of plastics:

by 2025, 100% of BIC consumer plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable; ● by 2030, BIC aims for 50% non-virgin petroleum plastic for its products, with a goal of 20% by 2025. ●

3.1.1

THE HISTORY OF BIC’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Launched in 2003, the BIC Sustainable Development Program has continued to evolve and expand, incorporating major environmental and human issues as well as the expectations of stakeholders, but also benefiting from advances in R&D, innovations, and take the evolutions in the Group’s operations into account. This exhaustive program encompasses all key sustainability issues as well as the related risks (1) to which BIC, in order to fulfill its corporate responsibility, must respond. A specific reporting system is used to monitor the Group’s performance as part of a dynamic of ongoing improvement. Since 2018, the BIC Program has been

guided by the five ambitious commitments that comprise “Writing the Future, Together”. In 2020 this program was enriched with additional commitments that will fundamentally transform the way the Group uses plastics. Through its Sustainable Development Program, the Group also contributes to the global Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN in its successive programs (the Millennium Development Goals until 2015 and the Sustainable Development Goals since then) (see also § 3.1.2.1).

Launch of the WRITING THE FUTURE, TOGETHER

BIC’s new commitments to the circular economy

3 rd BIC Sustainable Development Barometer

Definition of the ambition

Launch of the 1 st BIC Sustainable Development Barometer Progress made toward reaching goals: from 58% to 79%

2 nd BIC Sustainable Development Barometer

1 st consultation with the Stakeholders Panel

Launch of the BIC Sustainable Development Program, with all

Publication of the 1 st BIC Sustainable Development report

for 2025, with goals and action plans

Progress from 0 to 9/10

functions, categories

Progress from 0 to 8.6/10

and continents involved in its implementation

2018 - 2025 2020 - 2030

2003

2004

2005

2008 - 2010

2011 - 2013

2014 - 2016

2017

The main CSR risks related to the activities and use of BIC Group’s goods and services are presented in the Chapter “Risks management” on page 47. (1)

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