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Report on social and environmental information

Report of one of the statutory auditor, designated as an independent third-party entity, on the review of 8.2.2 environmental, social and societal information published in the management report on the year ended December 31, 2016

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plant and equipment Significant existing or planned property,

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purchased. As of December 31, 2016, the Group held property, plant and equipment with a total net value of approximately € 103.8 million, consisting mainly of the equipment (particularly information technology equipment) used in its production centers, more specifically its data centers. The Group leases almost all of its property & plant while IT equipment is generally Property, plant and equipment held or leased by the Group consists primarily of the following: Administrative buildings and offices for the Group’s ● administrative and commercial needs, in all of the countries Italy (at its Pero and Settimo sites) and in Germany (at its Frankfurt site), as well as in Spain and the United Kingdom Seclin site) as well as at its Vendôme site, in Belgium (at its Brussels site), in the Netherllands (at its Amsterdam site), in where the Group is renting some datacentre space from Group’s principal data centers are located in France (at its Company has its registered office), Belgium, in the Netherlands, in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. The in which the Group operates. The principal sites leased are located in France (in particular the Bezons site, where the

PropCo SA to Worldline NV/SA (Belgium) in connection with a long-term lease between Worldline PropCo SA and Immo Atos. Certain sites in Belgium are sub-leased by Worldline Haecht 1442, which owns the Group’s principal real property located in Belgium. The Group also rents, from third parties connected with its own data centers, four European telecommunications centers (located in France, Belgium and Germany). Lastly, the Group leases buildings and data Russia; (primarily information technology equipment) and data center servers, which the Group owns through its local Technical data center infrastructure, furniture, equipment ● subsidiaries; Assembly plant in the United Kingdom for the manufacture ● of kiosks. as well as with its current and planned investments. The Group believes that the usage rate of its various tangible fixed assets is consistent with its activity and projected growth, centers in the emerging countries in which it operates, including India and Argentina, as well as in the USA and in

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