Worldline SA/France

Lobbying Governance

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Worldline's CEO, Board of Directors and its committees, as well as the Executive Committee all play an active role in overseeing the effective implementation of the company's CSR strategy. [...] Worldline's Corporate Social Responsibility department is an international team of 13 people with a network of ambassadors in 15 countries. The department, which is run by the Corporate Social Responsibility Officer who reports directly to Worldline's CEO, is responsible for the effective roll out of Worldline's action plans across the company. The Officer reports on a quarterly basis to the CEO on the company's CSR actions and achievements and also presents the results from CSR initiatives, roadmap progress and action plans to the Worldline Executive Committee as well as to the Works Councils. [...] The CSR Officer reports to the CEO on Worldline's environmental and climate change governance, including risk management, and outcomes from the quarterly meetings of the company's Environmental and Climate Board which monitors Worldline's progress in reducing carbon emissions, extending ISO 14001 certification and fulfilling the environmental objectives of Trust 2025.

https://investors.worldline.com/content/dam/investors-worldline-com/assets/documents/financials/worldline-integrated-report-2021.pdf

#### 2.9 Policy Governance

Worldline has set a specific governance to manage the Environmental and Energy topics. The CSR Officer, reporting directly to the CEO, is in charge of Social, Environmental and Energy topics. He is supported by :

- The Global Environmental & Energy Manager who is in charge of Environmental and energy strategy and action plan monitoring,
- The Global ISO14001 & ISO50001 Manager who is handling certifications worldwide.
- The Country Environmental and Energy Managers are in charge to ensure local execution and to handle country specific certification and action plans. (Note: In countries where this is no ISO50001 certified locations, there is no Energy managers).

The bodies setup to manage the Environmental and Energy Policy are:

- Quarterly CSR session, CSR Officer meeting with the CEO

- Quarterly Worldline Environmental, Climate and Energy Board

- Yearly Global Environmental & Energy Management review

https://worldline.com/content/dam/worldline/global/documents/statements/environmental-policy-en-2024.pdf

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Worldline engagement activities are all managed through CSR officer. The CSR team is acting to include more and more checks in all company business processes. Recently, steps for CSR have been introduced in Mergers and Acquisition process. The CSR team members are also part of R&D federation meetings, gathering all R&D representatives for each Business unit and gives advice about research projects. It is planned to introduce steps within the Sales bid processing processes.

CDP Questionnaire Response 2022

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years

CDP Questionnaire Response 2023