Vivendi

• Vivendi’s headquarters awarded EMAS certification

  Vivendi’s environmental management system (EMS) at its Paris headquarters, has been certified under the EU EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) guidelines. The EMS has two major objectives:

  • Evaluate, improve and increase the transparency of Vivendi’s environmental performance to stakeholders, while increasing employees’ awareness of headquarters’ environmental efforts.
  • Support the group’s business units in their efforts to identify and manage environmental impacts.

An environmental impact review was completed during the first half of 2007 which identified the environmental impacts of the headquarters’ operations and corporate activities and assessed the efficacy of the existing environmental management system.The review included various policies and programs, opinion surveys, and interviews with employees whose jobs have potential environmental impacts. In 2008, a revised EMS was put in place, which includes both an environmental policy and an action plan for improving environmental performance. In 2009, Vivendi’s headquarters EMS received final certification from the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development, and the Sea (see the environmental statement). Vivendi’s headquarters EMS has also received ISO 14001 certification

• SFR ISO 14001 certification:

  In December 2007 SFR was awarded ISO 14001 certification for its EMS for all maintenance and technical center facilities , most of its network relay antennas, and for the Lyon Saint-Priest, Massy and Rennes offices. In 2008, additional SFR operations obtained ISO 14001 certification, including:

  • Operations and maintenance at all of the 14 main operating sites: Aix Arcobole, Aix le Sulky, Gentilly, Lyon Saint-Priest, Massy, Metz Arago, Nantes Saint-Herblain, Rennes, Rive Défense, Toulouse, and Tour Séquoia;
  • All of its primary maintenance and technical sites and the majority of its antenna sites.

For 2009, SFR plans to maintain ISO certification for the same range of facilities. The EMS will be implementedin SFR’s fixed-line telecommunications businesses, but SFR does not plan to seek certification for these additional operations at this time.

• Activision Blizzard ISO 14001 certification In June 2009, the Activision Blizzard Birmingham, United Kingdom distribution warehouse and offices became the first Activision Blizzard facilities to receive ISO 14001 certification.