Atos - Registration Document 2016

D Corporate Responsibility

D.1 Extra financial performance inAtos 2019 Ambition

Strive for exemplary business within all of Atos’ spheres of influence Challenge Material issues

Areas of action and objectives

The Group has to comply with an increasingly regulatory framework. This also means ensuring that business across the value chain is done in an ethical and responsible way. With its offers, Atos contributes to developing local economies; therefore, involving communities is critical.

The material issues for Atos in relation to its chain and local communities are: Compliance and ethics; • Supply chain management; • Local impact. • Regarding G4 aspects, these main issues correspond to: Economic Performance; • Market Presence; • Indirect Economic Impact; • Procurement Practices; • Anti-corruption; • Compliance. • For more information on G4 aspects, see section D.6.1.

Our objective is to always be compliant and to act as a fair player in business. Compliance and ethics: At Atos, high ethical standards supported by a Group-wide strategy, policy and training procedures underpin the delivery of excellent business technology solutions. Supply chain: Atos has developed a permanent dialogue with its suppliers to enforce strong and fair relationships and to ensure the respect of its values and rules. Working together in these conditions is a pre-requisite for building trust and long-term relationships. By assessing its suppliers, Atos aims at monitoring and ensuring the respect of its values. Atos objective in 2016 is to carry out assessments on key new suppliers from Bull, Xerox ITO and other planned acquisitions. Local impact: With the development of innovative ICT solutions that help reduce the digital divide, Atos contributes to improving the Company’s social impact in the community. The Group also supports volunteer programs, university relations and corporate citizenship actions in order to improve social links and impact at local level. Atos deploys its environmental policy to develop, promote, share and consolidate green initiatives while measuring, monitoring and reducing the Group’s impact on the environment (carbon, energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste, purchasing, travel, etc.). Effectiveness (PUE) of its datacenters. Improving the energy efficiency : Atos aims to improve the average Power Usage Supporting the energy transition : Atos, wherever possible, aims to consume 100% of decarbonized electricity in its strategic datacenters (owned and operated by Atos, co-location excluded). Reducing carbon emissions : Atos pursues carbon intensity reduction targets (tons of CO 2 /M€ revenue) in line with the world effort of limiting climate change and the rise in temperatures below 2°C. Offsetting carbon emissions : Atos aims to compensate 100% of its datacenters energy and travel residual CO 2 emissions. Deploying the ISO 14001 certification : Atos has set a global ongoing objective for the ISO 14001 certification of all its strategic datacenters (operated by Atos plus targeted co-located sites) and main office sites with more than 500 employees. Areas of action and objectives

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Take part in the transition toward a low carbon economy Challenge Operational excellence and environmental efficiency, including the reduction of energy consumption, associated with carbon emissions, and reduction of travel impacts on pollution by developing new ways of working are key, not only to limiting the impacts of the Group activities, but also to improving efficiency and developing

Material issues

One of the main material challenges in relation to broader society is its environmental impact. Regarding G4 aspects, these main issues correspond to: Energy; • Emission; • Product Responsibility compliance. • see D.6.1. For more information on G4 aspects,

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