From left to right, Ana Redondo, Minister of Equality; Luis Suarez, FCC Medio Ambiente Human Resources Manager; and Isabel García, Director of the Women’s Institute. FCC Medio Ambiente receives the Equality in Business Distinction from the Ministry of Equality Assessment criteria FCC Medio Ambiente has received the Seal of Equality in Business from the Ministry of Equality, through the Women’s Institute, awarded for the first time in 2020. The ceremony took place on 13 June at the headquarters of the Real Fábrica de Tapices in Madrid, where Luis Suárez, FCC Medio Ambiente’s Human Resources Manager, collected the award from Ana Redondo García, Minister for Equality. This distinction, which has been extended to its subsidiaries, has been renewed annually as it meets the ministry’s demanding requirements, and it is recognition of the policies and programmes that the company has been developing since 2008, aimed at promoting equality in all areas of the organisation. The Equality in the Company Distinction recognises all types of actions aimed at facilitating the reconciliation of personal, family and professional life, through the design of general objectives and the articulation of flexible measures that allow for their adaptation to the diversity of situations and needs that may arise for the company’s personnel. In order to obtain and maintain the award, the criteria for the implementation and results of the measures contained in the company’s equality plans have been assessed; the adoption of agreements at the highest level through their approval by the Management Committee; the establishment of procedures and criteria for the periodic evaluation of these plans; the application of positive action measures that actively promote equal opportunities between men and women; the policy for the prevention of harassment; the dissemination of campaigns on gender violence and the integration of women victims of gender violence into the labour market, as well as training actions, both for access to employment and those aimed at promoting women to positions of responsibility. During these years, new subsidiary companies, as well as other subsidiaries of FCC Medio Ambiente, have joined the Equality Plan negotiated and agreed with the Federations of Employees of Public Services and Services and Mobility and Consumption of the General Union of Workers (UGT) and with the Federation of the Habitat of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO). The awarding and annual renewal of the badge represents the strengthening of the strategic equality and diversity policies of Human Resources at FCC Medio Ambiente, as well as the express commitment of its management team to promote the development and professional performance of its staff under the guarantee of equal opportunities and the promotion of effective equality. 34 D Diversity