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A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Rexel plays a pivotal role within the value chain and works with many partners, manufacturers, suppliers, sub-contractors and contractors. It shares with them major responsi- bilities related to environmental and social practices. The Group and its subsidiaries constant- ly improve procedures aiming to ensure that commitments from all actors in the value chain are respected. Since 2013, Rexel has set up, assisted by its supplier EcoVadis, a platform assessing its suppliers environmental and social practices. The platform evaluates businesses based on 21 criteria divided into four themes: environmental, social, ethics and purchasing. Rexel thus collects information on its suppliers policies and procedures as well as on common indicators allowing performance comparisons. After a pilot campaign that involved about 50 suppliers, this assessment plat- form will be rolled out on a larger scale in 2015 and 2016. In Asia, the mutualized sourcing platform manages the data re- lated to local suppliers for its sub- sidiaries. Its audits cover many

assessment criteria related to fi- nance, quality, operations, envi- ronment and safety. A first self- assessment step is performed by the supplier itself, then an on-site visit allows an auditor to evaluate its level of conformity with the required standard. The supplier can then be rejected, certified or approved under certain conditions.

AUDITS AND 8 VISITS TO SUPPLIER PRODUCTION SITES carried out in 2014, within the framework of the sourcing platform established by Rexel in Asia.

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