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At EPSO-G, sustainability principles are integrated into the Group's business processes, and the management of sustainability areas of competence covers all levels.

The Company’s Board is responsible for setting, reviewing the long-term strategic sustainability objectives and monitoring indicators. The Board also approves policies on the environment, equal opportunities, health and safety, anti-corruption, remuneration, performance evaluation and development. Within its remit, the Board also approves the Company’s annual objectives, which include sustainability-related objectives.

EPSO-G's Board also approves a list of risks at Group level, which includes risks related to sustainability: risks of non-compliance with occupational health and safety requirements, lack of adequate skills, turnover, motivation risks, risks of damage caused by natural phenomena, etc. The results of the monitoring of the implementation of the identified risks and the risk management plan are regularly communicated to the Group's corporate managers, the corporate and Group Boards of Directors, and the Audit Committee, in accordance with the remit of each of them.

The Group Sustainability Development Manager is responsible for monitoring and coordinating the achievement of the Group's sustainability objectives. Meanwhile, within the Group companies, the relevant environmental, social and governance objectives are delegated to individual functional units within the EPSO-G Group companies (e.g. environmental, occupational safety, human resources, risk, and compliance management, etc.) according to their respective competences. EPSO-G Group companies with more than 50 employees have delegated individual people responsible for ensuring equal opportunities within the company.

EPSO-G Group companies are guided by common Group-wide policies governing the unified management of environmental, social and governance issues:

• Environmental Policy. This policy defines the key principles in the field of environmental protection, which shall be applied within the group to reduce the environmental impact of the activities carried out and to implement a culture based on the principles of sustainable development within the group and its environment.
• Equal Opportunities Policy. This policy defines the key principles applied in the group’s companies to ensure that principles of equal opportunities and non-discrimination are respected in all areas of the employment relationship.
• Remuneration, Employee training, and Performance Review Policy. This policy is intended to properly manage wage costs, create motivational incentives, and to ensure proper personal and professional development, as well as a transparent performance review system, for all employees.
• Occupational Health and Safety Policy. The policy is aimed at ensuring the health of employees in the workplace and creating a healthy, safe, and productive working environment.
• Transparency and Communication Policy. The policy is aimed at fostering fair and efficient communication with each other and with the external stakeholders, i.e. society, shareholders, market regulators, etc.
• Anti-Corruption Policy​. The policy sets the Group's anti-corruption principles, the roles of the entities involved in anti-corruption activities, and the anti-corruption measures implemented to create a corruption-resistant environment within the Group.
• Interest Management Policy. The policy is intended to create an interest management system that is consistent with the common good practice, ensuring that decisions in the companies of the group are made in an objective and impartial manner. It also forms an environment that is unfavourable to corruption.
• Donations Policy. The policy is intended to ensure that the donations provided are public, cast no doubt in the society regarding its expediency and transparency of the granting process.
• Procurement Policy. The policy aims to follow good procurement practices of international organisations, the institutions of the European Union and other contracting authorities and contracting entities. It ensures an efficient, dynamic and transparent procurement process, creating added value for the achievement of the goals of EPSO-G’s group companies.
• Code of Conduct. The code aims to set the same general guidelines of behaviour for communication and cooperation with internal and external stakeholders: employees, customers, contractors, business partners, shareholders, national and municipal authorities, society, etc.
• Supplier Code of Conduct. The code aims to define the minimum standards of EPSO-G Group expecting that all Group’s Suppliers and Sub-Suppliers conduct with, thereby promoting legal, professional, coherent and fair business practices that include the objectives of environmental protection, human rights, labor standards, and business ethics.