Atos - Registration Document 2016

Corporate Responsibility

D.6

Information about the report

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Registration Document 2016

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extensive procedures. Due to the use of sampling techniques

and other limitations inherent to information and internal control

systems, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement in the

CSR information cannot be totally eliminated.

We believe that the sampling methods and sample sizes we have

used, based on our professional judgement, are sufficient to

provide a basis for our limited assurance conclusion; a higher

level of assurance would have required us to carry out more

Conclusion

Information, taken as a whole, is not presented fairly in

accordance with the Guidelines.

Based on the work performed, no material misstatement has

come to our attention that causes us to believe that the CSR

Limited assurance report on the development process of

social, environmental and societal information regarding

the AA1000 principles

Nature and scope of procedures

required more extensive review.

no significant anomalies that call into question its fairness, in all

material aspects. A higher level of assurance would have

We conducted the following procedures, which correspond to the

requirements of a Type 2 verification in accordance with the

AA1000 AS (2008) standard, that lead to obtain a moderate

assurance on the fact that the description of the Principles has

We met the people contributing to the identification of key

issues, facilitation and reporting of Corporate Responsibility

(Executive Committee, Head of Corporate Responsibility and

Human Resources), in order to assess the implementation of the

report’s preparation process as defined by the Group.

specific local issues existence.

Corporate Responsibility, to assess the consistency of the issues

identified by the Group with local CR issues and identify possible

understand how they deploy the policies defined by the Group’s

We interviewed the persons responsible of the “Global Business

Unit” representing different geographical areas in order to

We conducted tests at corporate level on the implementation of

the procedure related to:

identification of stakeholders and their expectations;

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identification of material Corporate Responsibility issues;

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implementation of policies and guidelines of Corporate

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Responsibility.

Conclusion

Based on our work, we did not identify any material anomaly

likely to call into question the fact that the description made by

the Group in the chapter “Respect of the AA1000 standard” on

the compliance with principles of inclusivity, materiality and

responsiveness as set out in the AA1000 APS (2008) standard in

the process of developing the management report has been

presented fairly, in all material aspects.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, March 30, 2017

One of the statutory auditors

Deloitte & Associés

Jean-Pierre Agazzi

Partner

Erwan Harscoët

Director