Euronext - 2020 Universal Registration Document

Euronext, a Sustainable Exchange 3 Euronext’s Five ESG Impact Areas and the Sustainable Development Goals

ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, language, socioeconomic status, physical ability, experience and education. For all these reasons Euronext has measured the diversity levels in the Senior Leadership team (“SLT”). The SLT is an Executive group created in 2016, which is composed of senior managers from across the company who are invited to help Euronext develop and achieve its strategic ambitions. In support of increasing the level of females participating in our SLT, Euronext invests in a number of supporting initiatives such as: mentoring programmes, focused on female mentees and female role model mentors; a new leadership development programme module onWomen in Leadership ; focus on our job descriptions and recruitment pipeline strategy, and ensuring there is pay equality between males and females. More details can be found in section 3.6 - ESG Dashboard. Euronext has confirmed its support for the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact, and supports the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, together with the International Labor Organization Conventions and Recommendations. Euronext’s complies with these fundamental rights, conventions and recommendations, notably social rights, freedom of association and equality, abolishment of forced and child labor. Euronext is committed to social dialogue, supporting union representation rights and facilitating worker representative bodies. More details may be found in section 3.6 – ESG Dashboard. 3.4.3.3 Respect of the Human Rights and Local Labour Laws

Active dialogue sessions are organised in each country, business lines and functions. Each employee was involved in the set-up of the strategic plan “Let’s grow together 2022”, and each employee is invited to play a role in the implementation of the plan through frequent feedback sessions. Further details on the way this has been deployed in 2020 may be found in section 3.6 – ESG Dashboard . 3.4.3.2 Promoting Diversity Euronext is a multinational financial markets company born from the coming together of market exchange activities in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Lisbon. Euronext is now present in 16 European countries and in the US and Asia. The federal governance model is central to its organisation, and naturally creates an environment where people of diverse cultures and backgrounds collaborate and drive the organisation forward. Its long-standing commitment to diversity is entrenched in its corporate values, particularly that of “Unity” which encompasses three main elements:

n we respect and value the people we work with; n we are unified through a common purpose; n we embrace diversity and strive for inclusion.

In February 2018, a new Euronext Diversity Policy was adopted by the Euronext Managing Board, available on Euronext’s website (1) . This policy was an opportunity for Euronext to set its position on Diversity and reaffirm its commitment to ensuring an inclusive environment for all forms of diversity. Diversity at Euronext includes gender,

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OUR SOCIETY

Key Issues: n act ethically, with integrity and the highest standards in terms of good governance; n educate and engage with our local Community.

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountableand inclusive institutions at all levels. As a company, Euronext commit to the highest ethical and legal standards of conduct.

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. As a stock exchange, Euronext is committed to making a positive impact on its local and global communities and will focus community activities on two topics: Financial Literacy and Blue Finance.

3.4.4.1 Act ethically, with integrity and the highest standards in terms of good governance Euronext’s commitment to high ethical and legal standards of conduct is core to Euronext businesses, and the Group aims to be a model for the industry by supporting the highest ethical standards in its dealings with its colleagues, employees, business partners, customers and in its communities.

Euronext is committed to ensuring a balance between the needs of its employees with those of the Company guaranteeing that each and every employee can excel and develop in a safe, discrimination and harassment free environment.

(1) https://www.euronext.com/fr/investors/corporate-governance.

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