A dedicated organization

The Sustainable Development department defines objectives, pilots processes, and coordinates with subsidiaries.

The Sustainable Development department is under the direct responsibility of the Group’s Executive Vice-President of Communications, who is a member of the Group’s Senior Management.

In association with the General Counsel, it ensures coordination and application of compliance procedures in accordance with environmental, health, and workplace safety standards adopted by Vivendi in 2000. It also contributes to relaying the implementation of the Compliance Program.

The Sustainable Development department is backed by a Sustainable Development Committee, set up in 2003. This Committee is composed of persons dedicated to questions related to sustainable development in the business units (UMG, Canal + Group, SFR, Maroc Telecom, Vivendi Games) and representatives of several functional divisions of the head office (General Counsel’s office, Audit, Finance, Human Resources, Corporate Communication).

The Committee meets six times a year.

 Reference indices

Vivendi is listed on several stock indices:

Aspi Eurozone is made up of 120 companies, 46 of which are French. The reference guideline is the Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index.

The Ethibel Sustainability Index Excellence (ESI) comprises 319 companies, 21 of which are French. The reference guideline is the S&P Global 1200 Index.

FTSE4Good is a series of indices calculated in real time and designed to measure the performance of “Socially Responsible” companies. The FTSE4Good indices include environmental, social, and ethical criteria.

 Ratings

In February 2006, Goldman Sachs established a classification of European companies in the media sector according to sustainable development criteria. Vivendi is the first French company to be part of the classification and is in the first quartile.