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1. Overview
4. Financial statements
3.
Management report
2. Business review
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(1)
Human resources indicators:
Total headcount (breakdown of employees by gender, age and geographical area), Number of hires, Numbers of redundancies, Number of training hours.
Environmental indicators:
Water consumption, Energy consumption (electricity, gas, heat and fuel), Paper consumption, Waste produced, CO
2
emissions related to business travels.
Qualitative information:
Organization of social dialogue including information procedures, consultation and negotiation with the employees, Occupational health and safety conditions, Measures
implemented to promote gender equality, Action implemented against corruption, Actions of partnership and sponsorship.
(2) Milan office (Italy), Zurich office (Switzerland), London office (United Kingdom).
(3) See the list of environmental indicators disclosed in footnote (1) of this page.
Regarding the CSR Information that we considered to be the most important
(1)
• at parent entity level, we referred to documentary sources and
conducted interviews to corroborate the qualitative information
(organisation, policies, actions), performed analytical procedures on
the quantitative information and verified, using sampling techniques,
the calculations and the consolidation of the data. We also verified
that the information was consistent and in agreement with the other
information in the management report;
• at the level of a representative sample of entities selected by us
(2)
on the basis of their activity, their contribution to the consolidated
indicators, their location and a risk analysis, we conducted interviews
to verify that procedures are properly applied, and we performed tests
of details, using sampling techniques, in order to verify the calculations
and reconcile the data with the supporting documents. The selected
sample represents 34% of headcount considered as material data
of social issues and between 33% and 58% of environmental data
considered as material data
(3)
of environmental issues.
For the remaining consolidated CSR Information, we assessed its
consistency based on our understanding of the company.
We also assessed the relevance of explanations provided for any
information that was not disclosed, either in whole or in part.
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 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.
Conclusion
Based on the work performed, no material misstatement has come to our
attention that causes us to believe that the CSR Information, taken as a
whole, is not presented fairly in accordance with the Guidelines.
Paris La Défense, 13 March 2018
KPMG S.A.
Anne Garans
Partner
Sustainability Services
Arnaud Bourdeille
Partner
Report of the independent third-party auditor on the
consolidated labour, environmental and social information