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OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY Milestones

2.6. Milestones

2.6.1.

EXTRA-FINANCIAL RATINGS

Headquarters reporting concerns the Group headquarters around the world with more than 200 permanent employees. The indicators on accident incidence and severity rates concern only permanent employees of the Group. Indicators 2.6.2.2. The published indicators are chosen to best represent BIC’s main social and environmental challenges. The inventory of activities for the benefit of communities is compiled from information and data sent annually by the management of each subsidiary. The financial indicators, those referring to Human Resources, workers’ accidents and the environment are compiled using several data collection systems that give preference to the use of dedicated Intranet tools, under the responsibility of their respective departments. The consistency of the data is verified before consolidation. Concerning environmental reporting only, to ensure that the published data is more reliable, information from previous years may be corrected or fine-tuned when necessary. Concerning the reporting on greenhouse gas emissions, the conversion factors have been normalized based on those proposed annually by the International Energy Agency. Unless otherwise indicated, the indirect emissions correspond to scope 2 emissions using a location-based approach. In addition, to ensure transparency, some indicators have been more specifically detailed below: Percentage of BIC ® products with at least one environmental benefit BIC has defined environmental benefits for its products by complying with at least one of the following criteria as follows: light and long lasting (writing instrument ≤ 3 g per km; correction ● tape ≤ 1.8 g per m; lighter ≤ 8 g per 1,000 flames; shaver ≤ 1 g per shaving); made from alternative materials (recycled, vegetable origin, etc.); ● refillable; ● ecolabeled ( NF Environnement , etc.). ● This indicator is calculated on the number of units and concerns the products of the three main categories (excluding PIMACO and Cello Pens activities). Percentage of responsible materials for packaging This indicator includes all packaged BIC® products delivered to the Group’s customers all over the world (except pallets): consumer packaging (pouch, blister, cardboard box), outer/inner, shrink-wrap, lighter displays, etc. It is calculated on material weight and concerns the products of the three main categories (excluding PIMACO and Cello Pens activities).

In 2017, BIC was once again listed on the following socially responsible investment indexes: The 2017 CDP A List (see page 66); ● The 2017 CDP Supplier A List; ● The Euronext Vigeo index: Europe 120; ● The Euronext Vigeo index: Eurozone 120; ● The FTSE4Good Index; ● The Ethibel Pioneer and Ethibel Excellence Investment Registers; ● The Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe; ● The STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index. ●

2.6.2.

PERIMETER AND SELECTION OF

INDICATORS

The reporting period covered by the present report is from January 1 to December 31, 2017.

Perimeter 2.6.2.1. Regarding the indicators that refer to human resources, the reporting perimeter encompasses all permanent employees of all French and foreign operational units within the Group, with the exception of information on training and the disabled, for which temporary employees are included. The activities of Cello Pens have not been included in the reporting perimeter for these indicators. In 2016, the BIC Group initiated a process to be able to publish specific data for India taken from the Human Resources Key Performance Indicators (HR KPI) starting in December 2018. The indicators that refer to environment and health and safety only concern the operations that have a significant impact, namely the industrial activities owned by the Group. These indicators therefore concern BIC factories that produce finished or semi-finished products, as well as its engineering units and packaging operations of more than 50 employees or whose operations are regulated by government directives such as SEVESO (EU), PSM or RMP (U.S.). Other sites are included on a voluntary basis. Two major points should be emphasized this year: The exclusion of the BIC Graphic factories in the U.S. following the ● sale of these operations in 2017. However, the corresponding data on health-safety and the environment are included for 2015 and 2016. The eight Cello Pens factories in India are included in the ● Environment and Health & Safety consolidation perimeter, as a result of the efforts initiated in 2014. The activities of Cello Pens are not included in the reporting perimeter for these indicators for 2015 and 2016. These activities are also not included in the reporting on the Group’s environmental and health & safety programs.

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