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2.8.1.1.4 A global network of compliance ambassadors Legal teams located in France (Paris and Lyon) and the United States, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, are part of the network of compliance ambassadors and act as compliance relays. The latter act with the Group legal compliance department and with the Group Data Protection Officer in order to develop, facilitate, coordinate and monitor compliance programmes and ethics policies within the Group. The legal teams benefit from a compliance review framework enabling

them to apply the corresponding programmes. The internal control officers and auditors are also compliance ambassadors and monitor the application of compliance programmes ( see chapter 4 “Risk factors and management AFR”, §4.3 ). The Group’s internal control officers have access to a compliance review framework and second‑level control plan developed in collaboration with the legal compliance department and the audit and risk management department.

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