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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 3.9 Appendix 3 - Independent Third Party's report

APPENDIX 3 - INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY'S 3.9 REPORT

Financial year ended 31 December To the shareholders,

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In our capacity as professional chartered accountants, designated an independent third party, accredited by the French Accreditation Committee (COFRAC) under number 3-1055 (the remit of which is available on the site www.cofrac.fr), we hereby submit our report on consolidated social, environmental and societal information for the financial year ended 31 December 2017, presented in the Management Report (hereinafter "CSR Information"), in accordance with the provisions of article L.225-102-1 French Commercial Code. THE COMPANY’S RESPONSIBILITY It is the responsibility of the Board of Directors to produce a Management Report including CSR information as stipulated under article R.225-105-1 of the French Commercial Code, prepared in accordance with the internal guidelines, (hereinafter, "the Guidelines"). INDEPENDENCE AND QUALITY CONTROL Our independence is established by regulatory texts and the industry code of ethics as set out in the decree of 30 March 2012 on chartered accounting. It also complies with the provisions of article L.822-11 of the French Commercial Code. We have also introduced a quality control system that comprises documented policies and procedures seeking to ensure observance of the rules on ethics, professional standards and the applicable laws and regulations. attest whether the required CSR information is presented in the Management Report or, if not presented, whether an appropriate l explanation is given in accordance with the third paragraph of Article R.225-105 of the French Commercial Code (Attestation of the presentation of the CSR information); to offer a conclusion on whether the CSR information, taken as a whole, is fairly presented, in all material aspects, in accordance with the l Guidelines (Reasoned opinion on the fair presentation of the CSR information). Our work drew on the skills of four people between 3 October 2017 and 24 April 2018 for a 18-day period with an audit at head office on 23 and 24 January. We carried out the work described below in accordance with the professional standards applicable in France and the decree of 13 May 2013 setting out the terms of reference of the independent third party's mission. Nature and extent of the engagement We examined, on the basis of interviews with the managers of the departments concerned, the guidance on sustainable development, in relation to the consequences of the Company’s activity on its staff and on the environment and its commitments to society and, where relevant, the resulting actions or programmes. We compared the CSR information presented in the Management Report with the list provided in Article R.225-105-1 of the French Commercial Code. In the event of the omission of some consolidated information, we verified that an appropriate explanation was given in accordance with the third paragraph of Article R.225-105 of the French Commercial Code. We have checked that the CSR information covered the consolidated scope, i.e. the company and its subsidiaries according to the definition in article L.233.1 and the companies it controls according to the definition in article L.233(3) of the French Commercial Code within the limitations specified in the methodological note in Appendix 1 "Methodological Note". Conclusion On the basis of this work and given the limitations mentioned above, in particular in relation to water consumption, we hereby certify that this management report contains the required CSR information. RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSIONALS Our duties are, on the basis of our auditing work, to: DECLARATION OF PRESENCE OF CSR INFORMATION 1.

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