Atos - Registration Document 2016

D Corporate Responsibility D.4

Ethical excellence inAtos’ sphere of influence

distributors for IT materials [G4-EC9] . spend and sign global agreements with larger suppliers, 85% the delivery of goods and services are done at local level, reducing our impact on the environment. This is explained by the usage of vendors located in numerous countries or the usage of Finally, although Global Procurement teams aims to centralize

Atos’ spend 2016 by category [G4-12]

Manufacturing 6%

Indirects 24%

IT 42%

Subcontracting 28%

Enhance Sustainable relation D.4.2.2

principles to be able to work with Atos. Moreover, they should be prepared to be assessed by EcoVadis on their Corporate Responsibility performance at any time during their contract with Atos. areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. In the context of Request for Proposals, suppliers are also informed that they should respect these As explained in section D.4.2.1, Atos Procurement’s objective is to strengthen the relationship with key suppliers (Top 250) and have all of them assessed by EcoVadis on their Corporate Responsibility performance by end of 2019. EcoVadis assessments are done on four levels: Environment, Labor practices, Fair business practices and Supply chain. Suppliers are asked to answer to a detailed questionnaire about their contracts. The charter’s objective is to summarize principles and actions undertaken by Atos Procurement department for Corporate and Social Responsibility. It encourages Atos’ suppliers to follow the principles of the UN Global Compact in the Atos Sustainable Supplier Charter is available on Atos website to anyone interested to know more about Atos sustainable procurement values. It is distributed to all suppliers participating to a request for proposal with Atos and is attached to all comments including improvement schemes. engagement in Corporate Responsibility and required to provide documents supporting their answers. Then, a team of CSR experts analyses the answers and documents in detailed in order to give a global score (out of 100), a score per area and detailed In 2016, 103 suppliers have been scored or reassessed by EcoVadis representing 49% of the total spend and 41% of our strategic suppliers [AO17 and G4-SO3] . The selection was based on the level of spend, the category risk level and the geographic

the status of the ongoing assessments of strategic suppliers. In total, at the end of 2016, Atos had a vision on 450 suppliers EcoVadis scorecards. risk. With the usage of ZEN (Atos ESN), the entire purchasing community is aware about the relationship with EcoVadis and assessment: The average score is 53.7 which confirm the following a structured and proactive Corporate Responsibility approach; • policies and tangible actions on major topics; • basic reporting on actions or performance indicators; • company embraces continuous performance improvements on • corporate responsibility and should be considered for a long-term business relationship. Suppliers with insufficient scores (below 40/100) are required to implement corrective action plans and to be re-evaluated after 12 months. In 2016, less than 17% of our panel had low scores, usually because of a misunderstanding of EcoVadis assessment process and platform. However, if a supplier refuses to participate to EcoVadis assessment or is not willing to cooperate with Atos to improve its CSR performance this will, in most cases, lead to very few or no contracts being placed with that vendor. acquisitions. Atos objective in 2016 is to carry out assessments on key new suppliers from Unify, Equens and Anthelio and other planned In 2016, Atos has been reassessed by EcoVadis on its Corporate Responsibility performance and obtained the score 78/100, improving last year score by 4 points.

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