REDUCE OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Mérieux NutriSciences strives to promote responsible behavior throughout the Company through our commitment to reduce our environmental impacts. Thanks to our Mérieux NutriSciences Global Quality Health Safety and Environmental Manual and related Global Requirements Documents (GRDs) identifying environmental protection procedures and risks, we provide key environmental guidelines to all of our subsidiaries worldwide. Mérieux Nutrisciences Environmental Policy Our subsidiaries must: • Determine and have access to the compliance obligation related to the local environmental legislation and regulation, • Determine how these compliance obligations apply to the organization, • Maintain documented information of its compliance obligations. All locations must establish, implement and maintain an environmental management system to meet Mérieux NutriSciences corporate guidelines and local environmental legislation. They should also determine the risks and opportunities related to environmental aspects. The environmental program of each subsidiary must: • Assure that the environmental management system can achieve its intended outcomes for risks and opportunities that need to be addressed considering solid, liquid and gaseous laboratory wasting, • Prevent and/or reduce undesired effects, including the potential for external environmental conditions to affect the organization, • Determine the environmental impacts of its laboratory activities, including those that can be controlled and those that can be influenced, • Develop procedures and rules to ensure the implementation of safe practices with minimal risk of causing negative impacts on the environment (for example using recyclable materials as appropriate), • Include advice for continual improvement using the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 32 33