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OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY The BIC Sustainable Development Program

2.1. The BIC Sustainable Development Program

The story of BIC is first and foremost the story of a vision: “To offer simple, inventive and reliable choices for everyone, everywhere.” The BIC sustainable development approach is perfectly consistent with this vision, reinforcing it by making sustainable development a core part of the Group’s strategy.

FOUR STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS 2.1.1. In order to deploy its Sustainable Development Program, BIC has defined a strategic direction for each of its areas of responsibility: innovate to continually reduce the environmental footprint of all ● products and their packaging, and make them affordable to all; improve the environmental performance of BIC’s factories and ● reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by its transport operations; be a committed employer by upholding the Group’s values, ● ensuring safety in the workplace and employability for all personnel; fulfill its responsibility in its value chain beyond its direct scope of ● intervention to ensure respect for Human Rights in the workplace and expand environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices among its suppliers.

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BIC GROUP SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT KEY ISSUES

Evaluation of the materiality of 2.1.2.1. the issues In 2014, BIC performed a study to review the importance of these stakes and the risks related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the creation of a materiality matrix, in particular for the purposes of: updating its knowledge of the stakes considered to be the most ● important by its stakeholders; identifying any “subtle signals” of emerging topics that could ● represent a risk or an opportunity in the short or medium term; focusing on the most important stakes that require special ● attention by the Group; ensuring that the Group’s perception is consistent with that of its ● stakeholders. This evaluation was conducted by an external consultant and based on a documentary analysis (for example, client questionnaires, mapping of extra-financial risks, results of employee surveys) and interviews with the Group’s internal and external stakeholders (suppliers, customers, NGO’s, investors, General Management of BIC Group, etc.). All seven of the Group’s key stakeholders have been mobilized (employees, customers, investors, Shareholders, suppliers and subcontractors, communities and civil society, regulatory and control authorities).

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