Our materiality matrix Focus on:

Responsible products and services

Employees

Site-related environmental impacts

Ethics and Governance

Responsible products and services

Safe, healthy products and services:

this challenge has a signif icant presence at

every link in the value chain of our agricultural,

food and manufacturing activities, from the

raw materials we choose through production

quality management to distribution and ultimate

consumption.

Responsible innovation/R&D processes:

sustainable development is central to all our

innovation projects, directly linked to our

business DNA, and must be clearly and formally

def ined to ensure that its inherent issues are

taken fully and increasingly into consideration at

every stage of the product life cycle.

Sourcing: local availability, renewability, animal

welfare implications and the environmental

and societal impacts of raw material extraction,

processing and transport are all highly relevant

factors in the context of our business activities.

Employees

Occupational Health & Safety: developing a

strong safety culture in each of our subsidiaries,

based on ambitious and unifying shared

standards.

Site-related environmental impacts

Lower GHG emissions: taking action on the

climate-related impacts of our business activities

is key to our development. So we are making

our contribution to the global pushback against

climate change through long-term optimisation

of our energy consumption, processes and

upstream/downstream transport operations.

Ethics and Governance

Integration of CSR issues into corporate

governance and strategy: CSR is now clearly

identif ied as an effective lever for making

the transition to the responsible leadership

required to drive and support the long-term

transformation.

This process is guided at Group level by the

Sustainable Transformation Department, and

deployed and implemented by the CSR Project

Committee of CSR representatives from each

Group activity. The CSR Management Committee

(Management Board, Supervisory Board, family

shareholders and key activity senior executives)

sets the strategy implementation guidelines,

sponsors projects, and ensures that they align

fully with the Group’s development ambitions.

These governance bodies are complemented

by a close-knit network of CSR ambassadors in

each of our operating countries and subsidiaries

to ensure that CSR is everyone’s business and an

integral part of the daily routine.

This materiality matrix was produced in 2022 on the basis of a

consultation process involving 200 internal and external stakeholders.

Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the results obtained have been

used as the basis for prioritising our non-f inancial risks and restructuring

our CSR strategy. This matrix will be adjusted and expanded as part of

the double materiality analysis currently being conducted for the future

sustainability report (CSRD).

Safe, healthy products

and services

Product-related

environmental impacts

Responsible

innovation/

R&D processes

Employee

Health

& Safety

Diversity,

Inclusion

and Fairness

Occupational

Health & Safety

Integration of CSR issues into

corporate governance and

strategy

Stakeholder dialogue

and regional

identity

Supplier

relationships

Pollution and

ecosystem impact

prevention

Water

management

Sourcing

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2,5

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Business ethics,

anti-corruption, professional

conduct, transparency and

data protection

Increasing importance

Talent

management

and training

Relevance for external stakeholders

Relevance for internal stakeholders

Lower GHG

emissions

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