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By the very nature of its activity, the Group is rooted in local areas. As well as protecting their environment, it has a responsibility to contribute to their economic development, social cohesion and influence: this is the true meaning of the Group's commitment to redistributing the value it creates on behalf of local economic players.

A RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT POLICY TO BENEFIT LOCAL AREAS

SUEZ has included strengthening its contribution to local development and territorial attractiveness in the commitments of its 2017-2021 Roadmap. Its procurement policy favours the local economic players: out of the Group's 126,000 suppliers, one third worldwide and two thirds in France are micro- businesses or SMEs. A 30% of the total procurement volume in France and a 33% globally are done with these companies. The Group wishes is to act as a catalyst in the emergence of new local solutions for value creation in line with its evolving activities: innovating in partnership with its suppliers to integrate them more effectively into the new roles of the circular economy, stimulating partnerships between suppliers to develop new eco-industry sectors, incorporating companies from the social and inclusive economy into its tendering processes.

SOCIAL EXPERTISE MOBILISED TO SERVE PROFESSIONAL INTEGRATION

The first Maison pour Rebondir was opened in Bordeaux in 2012, and since then it has helped over 200 people return to work and supported the creation of 41 companies. Now as a real laboratory of social innovation on behalf of local communities, it has also been working with economic players in Val-de-Marne since 2017 and will establish a base in Lyon in 2018. Rebond insertion, the Group's inclusive employment company, helps people in the construction, public works and environment sectors return to work through its 12 offices in France. The SUEZ Initiatives fund, renamed the Fondation SUEZ in November 2017, restated its commitment to fighting professional exclusion in its new statutes, and dedicates a third of its budget to the issue. In Calvados, for example, it supports the national trial of the "Territoire Zéro Chômeur de Longue

Durée" (region with zero long-term unemployment) programme, in which ten territories have committed to redirecting part of the public budget for the costs of unemployment towards the creation of permanent jobs for the long-term unemployed. The Group's mobilisation in favour of professional integration is just as energetic abroad: in Morocco, the LYDEC foundation supports the CoopCREAtives programme to help women into employment and provides training for young people with no qualifications in the contruction industry through a partnership with the FMJD foundation. In Santiago, Chile, Aguas Andinas has helped to set up around a thousand local plumbing workshops, employing over 20,000 women from low-income households. The model has been emulated in several other South American cities.

INDICATORS

705 million euros of

procurement from micro-businesses/

SMEs in France in 2017

over 1.3 million euros a year devoted to

fighting professional exclusion by the Fondation SUEZ

OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

FOR THE BENEFIT

A PERFORMANCE THAT CONTRIBUTES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST