2021 Universal Registration Document

NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE STATEMENT: OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Our industrial facilities and offices [NFPS]

OUR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES 3.3. ANDOFFICES [NFPS]

BIC is committed to ensuring that its facilities, including both factories and offices, operate in an environmentally responsible way. BIC strives to reduce the impact of its manufacturing operations and optimize product shipping. BIC exerts strong environmental control over its entire supply chain and favors in-house production over contract manufacturing: 91% of the Group’s net sales are generated by products manufactured in its own factories.

To manufacture its products, BIC uses raw materials (plastics, inks, paperboard, metals, etc.), consumes resources (water, energy) and produces waste. The Group is aware of the environmental impact of its production activities and is committed to minimizing it. While demand for raw materials is mainly determined by product design (see Section 3.2.1 Our products), BIC’s factories are tasked to optimize water and energy consumption, as well as reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste production.

Since 2010, the EH&S Policy is deployed at all BIC industrial facilities. BIC maintains a formal procedure to review the BIC EH&S Policy to ensure that it remains relevant and appropriate to the business. This procedure describes a periodic assessment and revision of the Policy to ensure it remains appropriate in light of any changes to the Group’s activities and products, including acquisitions and changing stakeholder expectations. Since 2018, all BIC facilities (factories, packaging or distribution centers, head offices and other offices and installations) have been equipped with a system for documenting and managing safety incidents. This is part of the implementation of commitment #3 "Writing the Future, Together" (see Section 3.4.3.2). 3.3.2.1 The EH&S Policy requires factories to implement pragmatic management systems designed to involve all stakeholders, as well as to drive continuous improvement of operational performance. Every BIC factory has a local EH&S manager in charge of rolling out these management systems. Furthermore, the Group employs a central EH&S manager who guides and coordinates the network of EH&S managers. This person ensures that all facilities comply with the Group’s Policy and objectives, and monitors facility performance by consolidating, analyzing and communicating the results achieved. The environmental management system helps ensure compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. This may include daily or periodic checks to comply with local regulations. These may be done internally or with the assistance of an independent outside company. An action plan is drawn up to correct any compliance issues identified. Within the framework of the management systems, an in-depth review is done of all aspects of the facility’s activities and environmental impact (water, air, soil, noise, etc.). Action plans are then drawn up to limit this environmental impact. Simple improvement targets are set for the factories to contribute to the Group’s overall environmental performance while meeting their own specific challenges (production, resources, geographic location, etc.). The environmental management systems rolled out at the Group’s industrial facilities call for contingency plans to deal with pollution accidents with off-site consequences. Emergency prevention and response plans have been established in locations where there is an identified risk of an accident with consequences beyond plant boundaries. At the industrial facilities

3.3.1

RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES [NFPS]

[NFPS risk 7] BIC has identified risks related to its operations and the environment among its main CSR risks. The environmental impact of BIC’s manufacturing operations primarily molding and assembly of plastic products remains relatively low. Reducing the environmental footprint of its factories is also a source of opportunities for BIC. These include: optimizing production costs by limiting resource consumption ● (water, energy, etc.) and the production of factory waste; facilitating the integration of factories into their local ● surroundings by reducing their environmental footprint, adopting best practice and reaching out to local communities; study processes to reduce carbon emissions in the coming ● decades.

3.3.2

POLICIES ANDMANAGEMENT

SYSTEMS [NFPS]

Defined in 2005, the Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Policy , codifies the Group’s commitment to minimizing the environmental and safety impact of all its operations to better protect the environment. The Policy specifies BIC’s dedication to: pollution prevention; ● health and safety risk prevention; ● regulatory compliance; ●

continuous improvement; ● awareness and involvement. ●

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