Econocom - 2019 Universal registration document

03 corporate social responsibility nurture our excellence through responsible commitment

REUSE OF EQUIPMENT TO 1.2.3. EXTEND THEIR USEFUL LIFE As part of its Technology Management & Financing business (TMF), Econocom manages the return of its used electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). The Group records 500,000 product returns a year, half of which are specifically in France. Econocom encourages the reuse of all its products to limit the environmental impact caused by scrapping or incinerating, as for example, some components contain heavy metals. This approach supports the social and solidarity economy and is in line with regulations on disability and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). WASTE PROCESSING 1.2.4. AND RECYCLING WITH SOCIALLY SUPPORTIVE STRUCTURES The recycling of electronic equipment is paramount in the Group’s business. Every year, the Econocom group recovers 500,000 pieces of equipment, half of which in France. In order to process such volumes, essentially consisting of returned rented equipment (computers, screens, servers, tablets, smartphones etc.), Econocom uses Ateliers sans Frontières (ASF) and two specialist companies, ATF Gaia and Recyclea, which combine operations in circular and supportive economies. Partnership with ATF Gaia ATF Gaia gives businesses the means to be part of a more inclusive economy. On the one hand, by accompanying them in their compliance for the management of WEEE and on the other hand by allowing them to contribute more directly to the integration of people with disabilities through work. By sorting as closely as possible to the collection points in its approved centres, ATF considerably limits unnecessary transport,

optimising the carbon footprint as soon as the equipment is taken over. After recovery, sorting and survey, the equipment items are directed to the ATF repackaging centres or to the nearest dismantling and destruction sites. The Company also deletes data and preserves the anonymity of the equipment by performing a certified deletion, thus reducing the risks related to data security and guaranteeing compliance with the GDPR. ATF also provides Econocom a complete report, from the collection to the issue of the destruction certificate in compliance with the WEEE directive. Partnership with Ateliers Sans Frontières Since 2012, Econocom also collaborates with Ateliers Sans Frontières , an entity of the Ares group specialising in the management of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) for reuse and recycling around survey, audit, test, certified data erasure, mastering and dismantling tasks on our fleet of computers upon return from lease. Our goal is to give priority to a new usage cycle to the largest possible number of products by reconditioning them. Ateliers Sans Frontières (ASF) is an integration project, which welcomes over 110 young and vulnerable young people a year, to help them build their life project, regain their dignity and bring them to a stable personal and professional situation. ASF promotes integration through solidarity activities with a strong social or environmental impact (recycling, circular economy, donation of upgraded equipment) that give meaning to the work done by employees and help motivate them. In 2017, ASF became one of Econocom’s major partners, to whom we entrust approximately 30% of our French volumes to be processed.

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