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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
2.5 Fight against corruption
Approach and action plans
Schneider Electric is subject to investigation, controlled by rating
agencies and investors on sustainable development practices,
which often include questions on very specifi c subjects, such as
our anti-corruption policies. The Group makes an effort to respond
to all questions with full transparency.
The Governance Committee, presided over by the
Strategy&Innovation Function, applies a seven-point progress plan
based on the Responsibility&Ethics Dynamics program:
1. identify high level employees to monitor the rollout of the
Responsibility&Ethics Dynamics program;
2. defi ne best practices to prevent illegal actions, strengthen
management’s major role and promote use of the professional
alert system;
3. ensure that all policies comply with Our Principles of Responsibility;
4. inform employees of standards and procedures;
5. implement monitoring, audit and reporting systems;
6. establish a discipline for the practical implementation of standards
and procedures;
7. in the event of a breach of the ethics principles, take the corrective
measures necessary, including the consolidation of procedures.
Examples
In full coordination with the Responsibility & Ethics Dynamics
program, the awareness-raising actions, linking the Sustainable
Development, Legal, Security and Internal Audit functions, have
been led by the line managers in2012.
Various other anti-corruption initiatives have been implemented, at
the national or regional level:
•in France, Schneider Electric is involved in defi ning ethical
standards as part of the Business Ethics Commission of the
Gimélec , a grouping of manufacturers of electrical equipment,
control systems and related services;
•in Russia, Schneider Electric signed an ethics charter with the
Association of European Businesses;
•Schneider Electric Egypt obtained specifi c anti-corruption
certifi cation for its work with the National Electricity Corporation
in Sudan.
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3. Schneider Electric’s Commitment
to Environmental Performance
This chapter deals with the environmental impact of the Group’s industrial activities. The products and solutions offered by Schneider Electric
which help reduce the environmental impacts of our customers’ activities are described in part2 (page 52 ).
3.1 Overview
Context and aims
Schneider Electric does not produce nor distribute energy. It
conceives and builds electrical products and proposes integral
solutions for a number of market segments. The great majority of
these products are installation components for energy management.
They consume little energy compared with the devices they control,
and the losses through dissipation are negligible compared with
the energy in transit. Production activities, for their part, mainly call
on assembly and control techniques and only minimally integrate
procedures with a signifi cant environmental impact, such as the
transformation and treatment of metals.
With a company presence in more than 100 countries resulting
from a continual rhythm of acquisitions, Schneider Electric applies
a common environmental policy to all its entities and rolls out
the same programs for certifi cation, reporting and performance
objective throughout all its geographical locations.
Schneider Electric commits to protecting the environment and
health through the following objectives contained in the Connect
company program:
•to roll out ISO14001 certifi cation and the Group’s environmental
reporting to 100% of the industrial sites and logistics centers
(more than 50 people) within two years after their creation or
acquisition, and to the large tertiary sites (more than 500people);