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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Corporate Social Responsibility

Finally, the bee hives on the roof (with 95kg of honey produced in 2017) and the newly created aromatic herbs’ square contribute to a more sustainable environment. Euronext Brussels moved its offices in May 2015. The Marquis building, where Euronext Brussels have now its premises, has BREEAM certification (sustainable building design and construction). Euronext concluded in 2017 the transfer of IT operations located in Belfast to Porto, to the same premises as Interbolsa, Euronext’s Portuguese Central Securities Depositary (“ CSD”). Green IT Euronext is using more and more videoconference system, as well as the «skype for Business» tool in order to reduce international travels. In the past, Euronext used the opportunity of moving its Disaster Recovery (DR) site from London to Saint-Denis, to move most of the equipment from physical infrastructure to virtual environments which is now becoming the standard. Only critical production environment is still on physical platform. Euronext’s goal is to continue to reduce hardware and datacenter footprints in the future. Optiq, the new trading system that will be put in place is less hardware consuming than UTP the existing one. Euronext aims also to use cloud capabilities to increase its level of virtualization in the future.

Euronext has become an organisation that is proactively improving its environmental credentials, particularly the management of its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The Group’s primary GHG arise from energy, waste and water in its offices and data centres, from staff travel, and indirectly from its supply chain. Advisory and Research firm Corporate Knights Capital published its annual report in September 2017 on the ranking of the world´s stock exchanges in terms of disclosure of the performance of sustainability indicators. Euronext Paris is ranked number three, and Euronext Amsterdam is ranked number six. This analysis explored the extent to which the world’s publicly traded companies are disclosing the seven basic metrics: employee turnover, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, injury rate, payroll, water consumption and waste. In most of its buildings across the five locations, the Group rolls out water-saving initiatives such as motion sensors on taps and water saving toilet flushes. Motion detector lighting saves the necessary energy in meeting rooms, storages and sanitary rooms. In 2016, all regular lamps are being replaced by LED and other energy saving lamps. The use of organic products for the cleaning andmaintenance of the building is being developed. Euronext aims to send as little waste as possible to the incinerators. The Company separates waste at the source and works with secondary parties who specialise in sorting and recycling waste. In addition, Euronext uses free air (natural air) for its air-conditioning systems when the outside temperature drops below 12°C. Thanks to the Group’s building management system, technical installations are automatically switched off during the night and at week-ends. High efficiency boilers provide buildings with the necessary heating during the winter season, and where possible thermal insulation is placed in the form of wall and roof insulation and double-glazed windows. Euronext decided it would relocate its Paris office to new premises in the La Défense business centre in 2015 for a nine year lease. The new office Praetoriumbenefits from the following certifications: HEQ (High environmental quality), BREEAM (sustainable building design and construction) and VHEP (very high energetic performance). More specifically, Praetorium benefits from presence detectors to monitor external blinds, lighting and air conditioning, depending on the climate; it has triple glazed windows to optimise insulation and enable maximum natural heating, and possesses sensors to analyse air quality to ensure employees have access to a clean environment.

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NON FINANCIAL RISKS AND DASHBOARD

CSR risks Euronext as a leading financing centre in continental Europe is subject to risks and uncertainties that may affect its financial performance. Key risks specific to a pan-European exchange operator relate to the general economic development globally and especially in Europe, as well as increased regulation and oversight, all of which depend on policy decisions by governments and regulators and which are not controlled by the Company. As for any company, the business, results of operation or financial condition

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