Groupe Renault - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE RENAULT: A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY

ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE 2.5

Business ethics: ethics and compliance policy 2.5.1

Ethics is the cornerstone of our business conduct Objectives and guidelines 2.5.1.1 The Group ethics and compliance policy aims to: promote ethical values within the Group, thus contributing to its P sustainable performance; prevent and identify breaches of ethics and integrity; P ensure that the tools and measures adopted are suitable for the P Group’s challenges and activities; protect employees, customers and shareholders; P protect the Group’s image and assets; P promote citizenship in a global environment; P structure the Group’s compliance approach, i.e. all processes P aimed at controlling the application of the Group’s legal and ethical rules. The ethics and compliance guidelines include in particular: the Code of Ethics Groupe Renault. It sets out the Group’s key P principles and fundamental values. It is intended for all employees in all countries where the Group is present; the Guide for preventing corruption and influence-peddling. It P describes the Group’s active global approach to preventing and combating corruption and influence peddling; nine dedicated codes of conduct. They describe the rules of good P conduct to be applied in functions that require even stronger ethics; the whistle-blowing tool. It is available to the Group’s employees, P but also to external or occasional employees and suppliers, from a dedicated platform; all the procedures for applying ethics and compliance. P 2.5.1.2 The Group Ethics and Compliance department reports to the Group Ethics and Risk Audit department. It is responsible for ethics and compliance policy. It reports to the following Board of Directors’ committees : the Audit, Risks and Compliance Committee (CARC); P the Ethics and CSR Committee (CERSE). P Actors and bodies

Its duties are as follows : to define the Group’s overall ethics and compliance policy; P to act as an adviser to the Company’s management teams; P to ensure that ethics and compliance-related incidents are fed P back and dealt with; to animate the Group’s Ethics and Compliance Committee (CECG), P and reporting conclusions and proposals to the CARC committee; to verify the ethical and compliance policy implementation in the P Group’s various business activities (purchasing, manufacturing, sales, engineering, finance, HR, etc.) ; to reinforce the Group’s ethics and compliance policy; P to implement the Group’s ethics and compliance policy. P In order to carry out its duties, the Group Ethics and Compliance department relies on : a reinforced team, now composed of fifteen employees versus P seven in 2018; ethics officers, appointed in all countries where the Group P operates. They ensure the dissemination of ethical guidelines, values and expected behaviors, taking into account local laws and regulations. They steer the professional alert system and lead the Country Ethics and Compliance Committees (CECP); compliance officers, who ensure the implementation of the P Group’s compliance policy in their country or subsidiary; function and region officers, supporting the deployment of the P ethics and compliance system to specific business activities and geographical zones; two facilitators in France. They are in charge of solving conflicts P between employees through mediation. They contribute to the spreading of ethical values through training. It can also count on the support of the following bodies: the Group Ethics and Compliance Committee. The CECG is P composed of eleven members and of function and region officers. It is responsible for defining and adapting the ethics and compliance policy; the Alert Processing Committee. It includes eight members and P three experts. It treats in a collegial way professional whistle-blowing received within the Group; the Country Ethics and Compliance Committee. It is chaired by the P Country Director and steered by the Country Ethics officer. It deals with alerts and manages the local deployment of the ethics and compliance policy.

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