LEGRAND / 2018 Registration document

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DECLARATION OF EXTRA-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

OFFERING USERS SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

2018 achievement: A total of 1.81 million metric tons of CO 2 emissions were avoided due to the sale of the Group’s energy efficiency solutions, against a target of 1.5 million metric tons by end 2018, enabling the Group to exceed its 2018 target for this priority.

Legrand has filed more than 1,840 PEPs in the official database of the PEP ecopassport ® program (pep-ecopassport.org). These documents can also be accessed on the websites of the Group’s various brands, or on request from customer service departments. For example, about 5,200 downloads of these documents were recorded on Legrand’s French website in 2018. Thanks to the efforts of its R&D teams, 70% of Group sales were generated by products covered by PEPs at the end of 2018. In 2018, some 190 new PEPs were developed for the Group’s various international offerings. All R&D centers involved in the Legrand Way for Eco-design participated in this effort to create PEP ecopassports ® for their market. This environmental information has also been made available to customers in China, Brazil, India and the United States. For more information about the PEP ecopassport ® program, see the www.legrand.com website. R 4.2.1.4 IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS Because buildings are responsible for 35% of energy consumption and 40% of CO 2 emissions (global data, source: International Energy Agency), reducing their energy consumption is a major part of the fight against global warming. Installing equipment to improve energy efficiency in buildings is therefore a priority for Legrand. The aim is to reduce CO 2 emissions through solutions that allow users to consume energy more efficiently. 2014-2018 Group priority Avoid the production of 1.5 million metric tons of CO 2 Key performance indicator: number of metric tons of CO 2 emissions avoided by using the energy efficiency solutions sold each year by the Group. Annual targets: equivalent.

2014 2015 2016 2017

2018

Target achievement rate*

74% 105% 100% 110% 121%

* Calculated on year-end sales (excluding services and acquisitions in 2018) compared with annual targets.

Simple and accessible solutions The Group offers energy-efficient solutions for residential, commercial and industrial buildings, both new builds and those being renovated. They are easy to install, adapt and use and can be implemented by the Group’s usual industry partners. These solutions serve the needs of investors and specifiers working in the field of energy efficiency (energy service companies, facility managers, system integrators, technical consultants on green buildings, etc.). In energy distribution, Legrand contributes to a building’s energy performance with the following solutions: W reactive energy compensation and harmonics filtration : Alpes Technologies offers a full range of services and products that improve energy quality and reduce environmental impact, particularly in terms of CO 2 emissions; W energy-efficient transformers and busbars to optimize power distribution and reduce system losses; W high-quality uninterrupted power supply : the Group’s UPS ranges are based on smart power factor correction circuitry, which optimizes the absorption of energy inputs: efficiency remains at a high and constant level, even at a low rate of charge. Through its subsidiaries Inform (Turkey), SMS (Brazil), Meta System Energy and Borri (Italy), Numeric (India), S2S (France), Primetech (Italy) and Fluxpower (Germany), Legrand offers conventional UPS ranges, high-tech modular UPS facilities for critically important systems (data centers and financial institutions), and photovoltaic power inverters. In energy management, Legrand contributes to a building’s energy performance with the following solutions: W in lighting, heating and plant management , the Group’s solutions manage energy and reduce waste and therefore electricity bills, with a quick return on investment for users. The Group has recently expanded in this area with the acquisition of Q-Motion and

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2018

Millions of metric tons of CO 2 avoided using the energy-efficient solutions marketed by the Group

0.18 0.43 0.83 1.2 1.5

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REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2018

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