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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DECLARATION OF EXTRA-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

ACTING ETHICALLY TOWARDS SOCIETY

R 4.3.1.3 2019-2021 CSR ROADMAP With its fourth CSR roadmap due to be published in 2019, in connection with SDG8 (Decent work and economic growth) and SDG10 (Reduced inequalities) Legrand is addressing the issue of acting ethically by adopting initiatives to: W continue training employees and raising their awareness regarding business ethics: Before employees can respect business ethics, they must first be aware of them. As a result, staff training is essential. Legrand therefore works to ensure that employees likely to encounter risk situations have a sound knowledge of the rules on business ethics. It also means reducing the likelihood of an infringement of competition law or anti- corruption, anti-money laundering or export control laws. W monitoring the application of the Compliance Program: Legrand intends to monitor the application of its Compliance Program – formalized since 2012 and covering all areas that make up Legrand’s business ethics – more closely.

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2018

Target achievement rate*

110% 105% 107% 88% 96%

* Calculated as the average achievement rates observed in Legrand’s two groups of subsidiaries compared with annual targets.

Evaluation of the compliance program This covers the five areas of the compliance program as described at the start of section 4.3.1 on the “Group compliance program”. All of these checks are reviewed annually by the Internal Audit Department. Some of these controls are reviewed annually as part of a self-assessment exercise, and then checked by internal audit. In 2018, 36 subsidiaries were audited, seven of them recent acquisitions. In addition, a specific compliance audit was carried out within Legrand North and Central America (LNCA). Together with training, the internal control of these compliance practices is a crucial tool for Legrand’s business ethics. It helps to disseminate and foster a solid understanding of and respect for business ethics. The Legrand Group compliance program was hailed by Les Échos Business, the leading French financial newspaper, in 2015 and again in December 2016, when the Group’s Executive VP Legal Affairs was quoted as saying that it is important to “remain focused and responsive in an area that is constantly changing, to keep pace with regulations and technological and social developments such as transparency and ethics”. Education and communication are the key aspects of this program, which covers all Group employees. It owes much of its success to subsidiaries such as those in Chile with its communications policy and its motto “Transparency is our identity”; in Italy, with its “camera compliance” videos featuring some of the risks that employees may encounter; in Switzerland and New Zealand with compliance quizzes on conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality; and in Colombia with its external communication campaign “Buzon Etico” about its whistleblowing system. For more information on Group ethics, see our website www.legrand.com . Focus: Legrand Group compliance program recognized by Les Échos Business

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