CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Furthermore, as part of the internal awareness projects outside the Foundation. For example, the raising campaign on sustainable development (the employees took part in campaigns in the health field “Ecodays”) and in order to involve the employees, (fight against cancer) and ones aimed to support five projects proposed by employees were education and childhood. supported in 2017, including a project consisting in the renovation of a school in Popenguine in The donations from the Rexel Group, including Senegal, and another project in the Netherlands, the funding from the Rexel Foundation, totaled the purpose of which is accelerating the creation €915,666 in 2017 and €890,837 in 2016. and implementation of highly innovative solutions in A number of Rexel Group entities also supported view of a more sustainable future. col lective and community-based initiatives by To supplement and strengthen this global approach, providing goods, equipment free of charge and the Rexel Group subsidiaries and employees charities. initiated a number of sponsorship and charities 4.2 VIGILANCE PLAN Law No. 2017-399 of March 27, 2017, on the duty of requirements. This vigilance plan reinforces the care of parent companies and contractors, requires actions implemented over the past years aiming large corporations to implement vigilance measures at identifying and preventing serious violations of to identify and prevent serious violations of human human rights and fundamental freedoms, health and rights and fundamental freedoms, health and safety, safety, and the environment that may result from the and the environment that may result from their activities of the subsidiaries and the value chain. activities and their value chain. The vigi lance plan involves the Sustainable The companies thus must implement a vigilance plan Development Department, the Legal Department, including five measures: (i) risk mapping to identify, the Offering and Marketing Department, the Human analyse and prioritise risks; (ii) procedures for the Resources Department, the Finance Department regular assessment of the situation of subsidiaries, as wel l as external experts. It would be envisaged subcontractors or suppliers with whom a business during the fiscal year to involve other internal or relationship has been established with regard to the external stakeholders of the value chain in building risk mapping; (iii) appropriate measures to mitigate this vigilance plan. risks or prevent serious harm; (iv) a mechanism for alerting and col lecting alerts on the existence Presentation of the measures of the vigilance or occurrence of risks, established in consultation plan with the representative trade union organizations in such company; and (v) a mechanism for monitoring (i) Risk mapping for risk identification, analysis the measures implemented and assessing their and prioritization effectiveness. Rexel has initiated a process to identify its major In 2017, in order to comply with the new French risks across its value chain and has already defined law and with the concern of protecting the Group’s the methodology for assessing these risks, which will values, Rexel adopted this vigilance plan. This plan be used on this occasion. This analysis is performed relies in particular on a process to identify major at the Group level and for al l of Rexel’s strategic risks across the value chain, taking into account product families. the Rexel upstream and downstream activities The methodology used to carry out this mapping and its stakeholders, as wel l as the identification is based on the characterization of risks specific of assessment procedures and existing mitigating to Rexel’s activities and its value chain. The risks measures throughout the Group. At the same time, linked to human rights and fundamental freedoms Rexel is updating its alerting and reporting mechanism protection, health and safety and the environment to comply with the various applicable regulatory will therefore be detailed and expressed taking into REXEL 2017 – REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 162