The Sustainable Development strategy is supervised by the Executive Committee. The Strategic Business Units (SBUs) implement the Group’s sustainable development strategy.

The deployment of the Sustainable Development strategy is ensured by a Sponsor to ensure consistency of the deployment achieved by the various Sectors, Functions, Regions and the management units, namely the Strategic Business Units, Competence Centers and Business Support Centers.

The Sustainable Development Steering Committee puts forward policies and purposes processes and tools, monitors adherence to good practice.  It includes people representing these various units.  

It is the SBUs that, worldwide, provide the basis for the Group’s various operations, conducting the industrial activities in accordance with the Group’s strategy and guidelines. They report regularly to the Executive Committee, routinely including sustainable development aspects.  

Each member of the company has his or her own vision regarding Sustainable Development.  These views will contribute to company’s progress.
Thus, we aim:

• to encourage the development of skills relating to Sustainable development, and getting the Competence Centers involved
• to include sustainability criteria in innovation processes
• to encourage the emergence, at each level of the Group, of a view of Sustainable development derived from discussions with the various stakeholders, and encouraging a creative approach through fora to share views.

Internal abilities relating to social, economic and environmental management will provide the foundations for the new Sustainable Development strategy of the Group. There are 250 people coordinating the management of health, safety and environment issues, liaising with the relevant Competence Center on these questions.