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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Offering users sustainable solutions

Group priority 2014-2018 Provide product environmental data compliant with ISO 14025 for products accounting for two-thirds of Group sales. Key performance indicator: Percentage of Group sales of products sold with a PEP (Product Environmental Profile), in compliance with ISO 14025. Annual targets:

molds, have been seized and destroyed. Legrand has also shut down some 10,000 links to websites selling counterfeit goods. Copytracer, protecting the user Customer satisfaction also depends on the Group’s ability to guarantee the authenticity of its products to customers. To combat counterfeiting, Legrand has introduced a system known as Copytracer Legrand. This is a unique registration number applied to certain Legrand products (e.g. new generations of modular circuit breakers, Valena wiring devices in Russia). This system applies a specific mark to the Group’s products to differentiate between original products and copies and other counterfeits that are often synonymous with risk for users. It is gradually being extended to all Group subsidiaries and brands. Since 2014, it has been introduced by the Egyptian, Polish, Italian, Russian, Indian, Hungarian and South African subsidiaries, as well as other core subsidiaries. Focus: anti-counterfeiting campaign in Peru W Legrand is one of the founding members of EPEI (Association of international manufacturers of electrical equipment) in Peru. One of the association’s main missions is to tackle counterfeiting. In 2017, the EPEI worked with the Peruvian intellectual property office (Indecopi), the Peruvian customs agency (Sunat) and a local legal advisor to establish a procedure for seizing, based on registered industrial models, consignments of counterfeit goods at customs To date, around 130,000 sockets and switches have been seized through this procedure, which involves all stakeholders in the electrical industry in the fight against counterfeiting. For more information on Legrand’s fight against counterfeiting, see section 3.6.1.5 of this Registration Document on “Risks related to intellectual property”. R 4.2.1.3 INFORMING CUSTOMERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PRODUCTS Reducing the environmental impact of buildings requires careful design choices. Product environmental information, in accordance with ISO 14025, specifically informs users of the environmental impact of the electrical products they use. This is a unique advantage for users of Legrand products.

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To achieve a sales coverage rate of:

51% 55% 59% 63% 66%

2017 achievement: At the end of 2017, 67% of the Group’s sales were generated using products with a PEP, enabling the Group to meet the 2018 target a year early.

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Target achievement rate*

101% 101% 102% 106%

* Calculated on year-end sales (excluding services and acquisitions in 2017) compared with annual targets.

An industry-wide approach The Product Environmental Profile (PEP) is a reference tool for information on the environmental impact of electrical products. It is based on an international benchmark standard, ISO 14025 – Environmental labels and declarations – Type III environmental declarations. The information provided is taken from the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), which calculates the environmental impact of a product or service over its entire lifetime using the EIME (Environmental Improvement Made Easy) calculation software, applying the rules defined by ISO 14040 – Environmental Management – LCA. NB: LCA techniques and calculations are also used to optimize the environmental performance of products during the design phase. This subject is covered in section 4.5.2. The PEP ecopassport ® program was first developed in France with leaders in the electrical industry which are members of the PEP Association (of which Legrand is a founding member). It now has a global reach and is today recognized by countless operators for environmental reporting programs and sustainable building certification worldwide. On the basis of a set of rules defined by the program and currently being standardized, PEP ecopassport ® provides a strict framework for the LCA approach,

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