Groupe La Poste // CSR REPORT 2022

Accelerating and strengthening responsible purchasing 2 CONTRIBUTING TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COHESION ■

The Responsible Purchasing Charter for suppliers. In particular, it states that suppliers must respect and promote the principles of the United Nations Global Compact and the fundamental conventions on forced labour, child labour, freedom of association, discrimination and equal pay of the International Labour Organization. By adhering to this Charter, suppliers also undertake to respect the principles related to environmental protection (precautionary principles, reduction of water, air, noise and soil pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, resource and energy consumption limitations, biodiversity protection, energy efficiency). The Responsible Purchasing Charter specifies the commitments that suppliers make in terms of human rights and which they undertake to promote to their subcontractors: ■ respect for the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples and communities; ■ respect for the health and safety of people, the prohibition of forced labour, child labour, corporal punishments, and all forms of harassment; ■ compliance with legislation on the management of working hours, compensation, training, freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the right to organise (ILO Conventions C87, C98, C135), working conditions that respect the dignity of people; ■ prevention of all forms of discrimination; ■ implementation of the means necessary to comply with the principles set out in their supply chain. With regard to subcontracting, suppliers undertake to declare their subcontractors, regardless of their rank in the value chain, to ensure that their subcontracting chain respects the commitments made to La Poste Groupe and to communicate any problem. It also specifies the social, societal and environmental commitments made by the group to its suppliers: ■ transparency in the contractual relationship; ■ equal treatment and independence of its service providers; ■ the provision of a whistleblowing system to its suppliers to report any serious breaches of human rights and fundamental freedoms, health and safety of people as well as the environment, noted during the execution their contract; ■ the possibility of using the ombudsman in the event of a dispute. Lastly, it specifies the reciprocal commitments between the group and its suppliers, in the context of services provided on postal sites.

It lays down the principles of conduct shared between La Poste, its suppliers and its subcontractors through respect for: ■ men and women (respect for human freedoms and health throughout the value chain, fight against illegal work, protection of citizens’ personal data); ■ the environment (fight against global warming, preservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of resources); ■ the company (fight against fraud, corruption and situations that could lead to a conflict of interest); ■ the suppliers (equal treatment and transparency, respect of payment deadlines); ■ the international rules (compliance with embargo laws and international exclusion lists). La Poste Groupe continued to roll out its roadmap through the launch of the project to strengthen the responsible purchasing approach in March 2022, which steers the deployment of the Responsible Purchasing Policy . It aims to make purchases a lever for contributing to the four pillars of its societal commitment and overall performance policy. Therefore, the Responsible Purchasing approach is based on three requirement levels: ■ ensure the compliance of Purchasing, in particular compliance with the duty of vigilance; ■ formalise and develop strong requirements through selection criteria in specifications, particularly with regard to the environmental and social impact of purchases; ■ achieve the purchasing ambitions as regards inclusive structures, the social and solidarity-based economy (SSE) sector, and SMEs. This approach is already applied to each of the stakeholders in the purchasing process: the purchasing function, suppliers and specifiers. The Charter of “Responsible and Ethical Commitments in the Purchasing Sector” is intended for the employees of the purchasing function to ensure that they are familiar with and apply the group’s purchasing rules. They also undertake to warn of the risk of serious infringement of human rights, fundamental freedoms, health and safety of people, or the environment, of which they may be aware in the context of their missions within La Poste Groupe or at one of its suppliers. Lastly, they undertake to respect these principles and to promote them to their specifiers and suppliers. The Charter of Responsible and Ethical Commitments for Specifiers was established in December 2021 and released in April 2022. These employees are the ones who maintain relations with suppliers and who must therefore be familiar with and comply with the purchasing rules and procedures, as well as the systems relating to compliance. This document reminds them of the group’s commitments in terms of compliance and ethics, as well as the social, societal and environmental commitments that they must respect and promote to the group’s suppliers.

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