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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Limiting our environmental impact

of young people with mental and motor disabilities. Governed by an agreement, this commitment translates into the integration of trainees into the Group’s Italian teams. The objectives of this partnership were mainly to promote their integration into working life. In Turkey, Legrand has created a “No handicap for our future” fund which supports social enterprises whose workforce is at least 80% composed of people with disabilities. This initiative helps the people concerned to find work and earn a guaranteed minimum wage. For further information about human resource management, please visit www.legrand.com .

Actions of this kind are also carried out in the Group’s other countries, especially involving awareness actions on different disabilities. The Group’s various subsidiaries adopt these commitments locally and support charities promoting access to employment for people with disabilities. Group sites in Brazil are also committed to employing disabled people, either directly or through institutions. Persons with disabilities can thus participate in remunerated industrial projects, which enables them to be employed. In Italy, since the “International Year of the Disabled” in 1981, the Bticino subsidiary has partnered with the association CFPIL (Varese Center for Vocational Training and Integration through Work) and the Italian province of Varese to facilitate the integration into the workplace

4.5 – LIMITING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

All these environmental representatives work closely with each of the quality, environment and safety managers of the SBUs, and with the Group Environment team. Industrial sites as well as the major administrative and logistics sites contribute to Group environmental reports by producing some 30 indicators, such as energy and water consumption, VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) emissions and waste production. A selection of the data from these reports can be found in section 4.6.3. of this Registration Document. In addition, by actively contributing to the industry guide on CSR, published by GIMELEC (the French association for the electrical industry), Legrand sought to provide specific information about the sector, and in particular to identify the environmental impacts that apply to its businesses. This is particularly the case with noise pollution: as a manufacturing industry, noise pollution is limited to the noise of machinery located inside buildings; this is controlled so as not to generate any particular problem to neighborhoods around the Group’s sites. Concerning food waste, the subject is not directly related to Legrand’s business. Consequently, Legrand does not consider this to be applicable to its operations and therefore has not specifically included this topic in this Registration Document (consistent with the “comply or explain” approach).

Legrand has long been committed to safeguarding the environment. This responsibility applies not only to the Group’s sites but also the design of its products. The challenge is to innovate in order to limit the environmental impact of Legrand’s operations. This includes promoting the development of a circular economy. To achieve this objective, Legrand encourages grassroots action at its production and R&D sites which is overseen by the SBUs (Strategic Business Units). At the same time, the Group Environment Department manages the Group’s environmental policy within the Strategy and Development Division and contributes to environmental reporting by providing data analysis. More than 140 people worldwide work on environmental issues. For example, environmental representatives at the various production sites ensure that the Group’s environmental policy is implemented. They are responsible in particular for implementing environmental diagnostics. Within the framework of Legrand’s operational organization, they also help implement improvement plans, in most cases as part of an Environmental Management System (EMS). Similarly, ecodesign specialists at R&D centers are involved in the implementation of tools and best practices.

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