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SOCIETAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
SECTION 1 - CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) POLICY
INTEGRATION OF CSR INTO VIVENDI’S GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGY
1.2.3. Effective Non-Financial Reporting
Vivendi’s non-financial reporting is a CSR management tool that
enables the Group to control risks and capitalize on opportunities.
The incorporation of indicators linked to the Group’s strategic issues is an
innovative approach in the cultural and creative industries sector.
In 2012, Vivendi’s Reporting Protocol was completely revised (please
refer to Section 5.1. of this chapter) to meet the new requirements of
Article 225 of the French Grenelle II law and the guidelines of the Media
Sector Supplement of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to which Vivendi
has been an active contributor. In 2012, a steering committee composed
of members of Senior Management and drawn from the functional
departments (Legal, HR, Audit and CSR) met several times to assess the
progress across the Group in this area.
The reporting of societal information has been extended to meet the
requirements of the French Grenelle II law and some environmental
indicators have been revised. The Statutory Auditors have analyzed
Vivendi’s indicators and approved the substance and value of the CSR data
collected and defined in its Protocol. For fiscal year 2012, more than 35%
of the non-financial data collected pursuant to this Reporting Protocol are
presented in chapter 2 of this Annual Report and such disclosure has been
audited by Ernst & Young.
The three strategic issues, for which Vivendi has collected data since
2004, are related to human rights and are presented in the section
“Other actions undertaken to promote human rights” (referenced in the
French Grenelle II law):
✱ protection and empowerment of young people as set out in the
1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Art. 27) and
the “Children’s Rights and Business Principles,” developed by
the UN Global Compact, UNICEF and Save the Children (March 2012);
✱ promotion of cultural diversity relates to the 1948 Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 27), UNESCO’s 2001 Universal
Declaration on Cultural Diversity (Art. 5) and UNESCO’s 2005
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions (Art. 2); and
✱ knowledge sharing contributes significantly to the exercise of human
rights, as stated in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of
the European Union (2000) on freedom of expression and information
as well as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (2000).
The Statutory Auditors have classified these issues, along with their
associated indicators, as strategic and some of them have been subject
to a verification process. In the coming years, this process will be
strengthened to include them, in due course, into of a global review of
the Group’s performance. It should also be noted that Vivendi is a member
of a working group on integrated reporting, created at the initiative of
the Observatoire de la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (ORSE),
a French think tank for corporate social responsibility of which Vivendi is
a founding member.
In the cultural and creative industries sector, Vivendi has pioneered
the reporting and verification of indicators directly related to its activities.
Notes and legends applicable to all indicators
✱ Societal, social and environmental information indicators are presented in accordance with the requirements and structure
of the French Grenelle II law.
✱ Unless otherwise mentioned, this information is presented as consolidated data as of December 31, 2012.
✱ A cross-reference to the main CSR reporting criteria is provided for each indicator. Accordingly, under the title of each indicator,
the following references are provided:
– “GRI”: the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (G3.1 version), including the Media Sector Supplement (MSS)
and Telecom Sector Supplement (TSS);
– “UNGC”: the principles of the UN Global Compact; and
– “OECD”: the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
A full table of cross-references to the GRI guidelines is also available on Vivendi’s website.
✱ For 2012, the data is published in a consolidated format (please refer to Section 5.1. of this chapter), with social data published for 2011.
In addition, 2012 data is broken down by subsidiary for certain indicators:
– “C+G”: Canal+ Group;
– “UMG”: Universal Music Group;
– “AB”: Activision Blizzard;
– “SFR”: SFR;
– “MTG”: Maroc Telecom group, which includes Maroc Telecom (“MT”) and its sub-Saharan subsidiaries (Onatel in Burkina Faso, Sotelma in Mali,
Mauritel in Mauritania and Gabon Télécom in Gabon);
– “GVT”: GVT; and
– “Other”: some indicators show this line which includes, as specified for each relevant indicator, corporate data (Vivendi SA) and data for Wengo,
Digitick or other entities such as Vivendi Mobile Entertainment (VME).
✱ “-”: Data not applicable or not available.