Saint Gobain - Registration document 2016

10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND CROSS-REFERENCES TABLES 2. CSR information

b) 2010-2025 and 2014-2016 objectives The Group has set medium-term objectives, up to 2025, objectives are established for a three-year period. The based on the 2010 results. To achieve them, intermediate to the period start. The current period 2014-2016 therefore baseline year for the intermediate objectives is the year prior uses 2013 as its base year. Based on the results for the baseline year, every three years the environmental results are tracked for the next three years Group updates the scope of “concerned sites” for which (2011-2013/2014-2016/2017-2019/2020-2022/2023-2025). The published results for this scope therefore have a year, but no acquisitions are taken into account. They are closed or sold are removed from current year and baseline included in the subsequent period. comparable scope for the three years within the period: sites to the baseline year. This means that 2014-2016 emissions and objectives, results are published using comparable production consumption are recalculated based on 2013 production. In addition, for the indicators tracking environmental

Progress achieved over these five three-year periods 2010 results. whether the 2025 objectives will be achieved based on the (between 2010 and 2025) will be cumulated to assess c) Data consolidation The EHS reporting process (both monthly and annual) The EHS reporting protocol is available in French and English. involves three stages: data input, performed by the EHS correspondent(s) at the ‹ reporting unit concerned; data verification, by the EHS Directors of each Sector; ‹ data consolidation by the Group’s EHS Department ‹ management. business and countries, and difficulties in interpreting errors such as differences in units of measurement between technical terms. teams. These factors allow the Group to prevent potential feedback and better use of the systems by the specialized the reports has continuously improved thanks to effective Since the launch of the Group’s reporting tools, the quality of d) Difficulties and limitations

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