EDF / 2020 Universal Registration Document

3 NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Well-being and solidarity

Decommissioning and radioactive waste 3.2.4.4.3 Waste resulting from the decommissioning of power plants and associated industrial activities is identified in France using the indicators of very-low level solid radioactive decommissioning and industrial waste and low-level and intermediate-level radioactive waste. For the Group in France, the volume of VLL waste was 2,007m 3 in 2020, compared to 2,481m 3 in 2019 and 4,111m 3 in 2018. The volume of low-level and intermediate-level waste is 251m 3 in 2020, compared to 785m 3 in 2019 and 321m 3 in 2018. Waste from Framatome’s industrial activities in Belgium and the USA is identified by class A radioactive waste indicators. In the USA, the volume of Class A waste is 378m 3 in 2020, compared to 235m 3 in 2019 and 208m 3 in 2018. In Belgium, decommissioning activities at the Dessel site are being completed and did not produce Class A waste in 2020, whereas they represented 87m 3 in 2019 and 168m 3 in 2018. For methodological clarifications related to this data, see section 3.7.2.2 “Details on performance indicators”. Regarding metal materials with activity well below safety thresholds, EDF is in favour of the alignment of French regulations with the European regulatory framework (“release” thresholds) to authorise, after processing and checking at a dedicated facility, conventional recycling of a significant proportion of metal materials from decommissioning operations. Currently, in France, all waste from a “potential nuclear waste generation zone”, irrespective of its level of activity, is considered as radioactive waste and cannot be recycled outside the nuclear industry.

Nuclear power and “DNSH” criteria 3.2.4.4.4 within the framework of the European taxonomy The work carried out in 2019 by the European Commission to establish the classification of sustainable economic activities has identified nuclear energy as a contributor to the fight against climate change: nuclear energy meets the first environmental objective of the taxonomy. Additional expertise was requested to verify the absence of harm with respect to the other objectives (Do No Significant Harm to the Environment, DNSH). A specific study was assigned to the Commission’s official research institute, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), to evaluate nuclear energy with regard to these criteria, the results of which are expected in early 2021. At the same time, recent studies show that nuclear technology has its place in the European taxonomy: ARUP (1) , a British engineering firm found that “the sector is more than compliant ● and in a strong position to benefit from sustainable funding”; CEPN, a French consulting firm specialising in radiation protection which carried ● out a study based entirely on public documents (2) . This study validates the robustness of safety standards that call for a high level of environmental protection: radioactive waste management meets the environmental objectives of the DNSH. Nuclear energy meets all the objectives set by the European taxonomy. Present and future radioactive waste storage and disposal facilities guarantee sustainable nuclear power.

Well-being and solidarity 3.3 The Group’s raison d’être is heavily based on personal well-being and solidarity development, for both its employees and all its stakeholders. The four main CSR commitments identified in this respect are the health and safety of all individuals, ethics and human rights, the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion and the prevention of energy poverty and promotion of social innovation.

WELL-BEING AND SOLIDARITY

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

CSR COMMITMENTS

CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN SD GOALS

Nuclear safety: Number of significant level 2 events on the INES scale Global LTIR (Employees and service providers) Number of fatal accidents connected to business-specific risks (employees and providers)

PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL

ETHICS, COMPLIANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Proportion of executives who have completed the anti-corruption training programme

Gender balance index: percentage of women in the Management Committees of the Group's entities Percentage of employees who have taken part in a skills development initiative Rate of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

ENERGY POVERTY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

Number of energy support

For the indicator concerning social dialogue and related explanation, see section 3.5.2.4 "Social dialogue". *

3.3.1

Health and safety for all

EDF is committed to protecting the health and safety of all individuals. As part of this, psychosocial risks, adapting work organisation methods to ensure well-being, the Group is committed to developing the highest standards in terms of nuclear and guaranteeing a high level of social welfare, etc.), sales offerings related to comfort hydropower safety, health policies for its employees and subcontractors (reducing the and well-being, improvement of air quality and reductions in noise, visual or light number of accidents, eradicating fatal accidents, developing the management of pollution. (1) www.arup.com/projects/eu-sustainable-finance-taxonomy (2) cepn.asso.fr/publications/rapports/264-environmental-impacts-associated-with-radioactive-waste-management-a-review-of-standards-and-practices-according- to-the-do-not-significant-harm-approach-of-the-european-taxonomy.html

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