Plastic Omnium // 2021 Universal Registration Document

NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING DISCLOSURE The risk management and non-financial reporting of the Group

Conclusion: Employer of choice The Group’s success is based on the skills, know-how and commitment of its employees. Talent and skills management enables the Group to maintain a high level of expertise and anticipate future needs while making Plastic Omnium an employer of choice. This involves: improving the employee experience through professional development; ● reinforcing the robustness of internal mobility and career development ● processes; anticipating changes in jobs and training needs and rewarding ● operating performance. To increase its attractiveness, the Group continues to develop its employer brand. The Group’s LinkedIn page had 145,000 subscribers at the end of 2021, up 18% compared to 2020. 124 notices were published on it during the year. The website had more than 78,000 visitors to its career pages. 995 job offers/internships were published in 2021 (vs. 442 in 2020) and an average of 2,448 applications were received each month (vs. 1,684 applications per month in 2020). BUSINESS ETHICS AND TAX EVASION 4.3.2.1 RISKS Risk description Within an international Group such as Plastic Omnium, it is particularly important to take into account the risk of business ethics and tax evasion. This risk can cover several topics: fraud, corruption, conflicts of interest, insider trading or anti-competitive practices. It may concern isolated acts that do not comply with the regulations in force or the policies and procedures of Plastic Omnium. The Group would then be exposed to financial sanctions from the authorities and could see its image tarnished. Policies and procedures To prevent the occurrence of such isolated acts. Plastic Omnium has formalized its Code of Conduct since 2003 and reviews it regularly. The last update in 2018 was an opportunity to split the document into two parts: commitments and obligations of Plastic Omnium to employees and vice versa . It was also on this date that the Plastic Omnium whistleblowing procedure was introduced in the Code of Conduct. In 2020, the HBPO subsidiary adapted the content of its own Code of Conduct to make it consistent with the Group’s Code of Conduct. These Codes of Conduct present the non-negotiable rules that the Group has set itself in terms of respect for Human Rights, fundamental freedoms, health and safety, diversity, the environment and preventing discrimination, fraud, corruption and influence peddling. They also remind the commitments required of its employees: protecting the Group’s assets and image, guaranteeing product quality and safety, and complying with ethics rules and regulations. The Codes of Conduct are translated into the main languages in force within the Group, i.e. 22 languages to date. The Group trains employees on Codes of Conduct and internal rules. SOCIETAL STAKES 4.3.2

In a context of a rapidly changing market and transformation projects for the Group, Senior Management wishes to maintain regular communication with its managers: online Management Workshops were conducted with 70 senior ● executive (two in January and one in November); Directors’ webcasts addressed the Group’s 400 directors (in February, ● July and November); in the same vein, Industrial Activities brought together their senior ● managers approximately every quarter. HBPO also brought together 100 managers for an online management meeting. At the same time, and in a context where on-site visits remained difficult for sanitary reasons, Laurent Favre met employees from all countries during “Meet the CEO” video-conference sessions. This resulted in rich direct discussions with more than 150 employees in 2021, divided into 12 sessions. The principle is simple: for each session, around 15 employees representing the variety of professions and sites in a country have the opportunity to openly discuss subjects of their choice with the Chief Executive Officer, such as Group strategy, customer relations, the local market, the career development expectations, etc. For Laurent Favre, these high quality exchanges are a way of gathering valuable feedback. The Group implements an editorial strategy of sharing Company news with the teams: on Topnet, the Group’s intranet, 164 news items were published in ● 2021, or 14 per month on average, a similar number to the previous year. In addition, each employee now has the opportunity to share local news via a space called PO Voices. the most significant news items are sent directly in the form of emails ● under the banner Topnews. Twelve mailings were sent to all employees this way; a summary of the information is then provided on a monthly basis to all ● sites around the world, so that they can be shared on their communication screens, which are usually situated in break areas. Each month, an average of 65 sites broadcast them; lastly, the Group publishes a bi-annual internal magazine called ● “Optimum”, whose content is developed from editorial committees bringing together all of the Group’s business lines and corporate functions. This magazine is translated into eight languages and is available to all employees digitally or in print. The last issue featured the Group's carbon neutrality roadmap. Feedback culture is becoming widespread throughout the Group, with increasingly regular surveys conducted in the various functions to assess the effectiveness of actions. Thus, short questionnaires are systematically sent after the main ● managerial communications. In May, the IT Department conducted a satisfaction survey on the IT ● Department: 1,521 respondents reported a general perception of 3.6/5. In June, the Communications Department conducted a satisfaction ● survey on internal media: 2,284 respondents assessed their level of information at an average of 3.4/5. Lastly, in November, the Finance & IT Department conducted a survey ● on the expectations of its various internal customers with regard to its business transformation project.

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