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CHALLENGES & STRATEGY 25 With 2,692 employees engaged in October 2020 in the solidarity challenge by the charity Bewalk, Pierre Fabre has won the commitment award launched as part of an inter- company initiative for promoting the benefits of suitable physical activity. The funds raised in 2020 were used to purchase fitness equipment for cancer patients. We are Green Mission: uniting our employees More and more employees are taking part in cross-company workshops and groups for reducing the Group's environmental footprint. This is evidenced by the huge momentum of the We Are Green Mission, which pools internal environmental and social initiatives and encourages communication between the different subsidiaries. Planting trees and protecting natural zones in Australia, Chile, South Korea and Greece, working with charities in Canada, Morocco, the UK... In Portugal, employees have planted nearly 2,000 umbrella pines to improve soil fertility in Mafra National Park, north of Lisbon. In turn, Pierre Fabre’s German subsidiary has offset the CO2 emissions of its company cars by supporting actions to protect the planet. The Green Mission movement is at work across the entire Group. Listening to pharmacists In order to consolidate the central link in its value chain, Pierre Fabre has developed its “Green and Socially Responsible Pharmacy” program. By joining forces with the Primum Non Nocere® agency, Pierre Fabre has used its know-how and expertise to offer pharmacies a new solution that will help them assess and give a more professional dimension to their environmental, economic and social impact. Its name is Primum Office, the first online CSR management tool specifically tailored to the pharmacy sector and run by leading professionals and experts in sustainable development. This tool offers guidance to pharmacies, from the initial audit through to annual reporting, fixing custom targets and setting up performance indicators with action proposals tailored to each pharmacy. Through a certification process, pharmacies are given a score that determines their THQSE® (Very High Environmental Quality) level. This certification has been outsourced to SOCOTEC, a well-known name and trusted third-party player in the field of certification. In 2020, of the 15 pharmacies supported on this program by Pierre Fabre, with around thirty more scheduled for 2021, three pharmacies have already been rated THQSE®. ECOCERT ENVIRONNEMENT backs Green Mission Pierre Fabre Rated Excellent by ECOCERT Environnement in 2019, the Group has now had its sustainable development strategy approved by a follow-up audit in December 2020. One of the points most praised was the way in which employees have adopted the Green Mission, and the quality of life in the workplace. Pierre Fabre teams up with Act4Nature By joining Act4Nature International, an alliance of companies working to protect biodiversity, the Group is supporting ten collective commitments and a number of company-specific commitments. Praise for the Group's plant collection The Pierre Fabre plant library, which boasts 17,000 samples and is one of the world’s largest private collections of plants, has been officially added to the European Register of Collections. This is confirmation that the European Commission believes the collection is created and managed in line with international rules for accessing biodiversity.