5192019 Universal registration document and annual financial report - BNP PARIBAS

7 a Committed Bank: information ConCerninG the eConomiC,

soCial, CiviC and environmental resPonsiBility of BnP PariBas

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Our strategy

■ The Group has defined a policy and a management process for its relations with advocacy NGOs, in order to ensure a constructive, coordinated and productive dialogue with them. In 2019, BNP Paribas exchanged 83 separate times with advocacy NGOs .

■ In order to better identify civil society s expectations when making its strategy evolve, BNP Paribas has developed a decision-making tool (the Corporate Engagement Barometer ) to guide its actions and anticipate future challenges. The initial study, led in partnership with Ipsos, targeted both the general and engagement sensibilized public in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. The results were released in 2019.

■ With regard to regulatory organisations, governments and parliamentarians, in November 2012, BNP Paribas adopted a Charter for responsible representation with respect to the public authorities , which was approved in 2015 by the Board of directors. In 2017, BNP Paribas was registered in the digital register of lobbyists, managed by the Haute Autorité pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique (HATVP, High Authority for Transparency in Public Life). In February 2014, the Group signed the joint declaration on transparency in lobbying, introduced by Transparency International France. As a member of

the Transparency International France Forum of Engaged Corporate clients, it also signed a joint declaration of companies on lobbying dated 22 May 2019, which renewed the commitments made in 2014 and extended the provisions of the Sapin 2 law on the representation of interests. The dedicated website of its Public Affairs France Department details its work in the area of responsible representation(1). The Group s public positions concerning banking and financial regulations are also available on its website(2).

The mapping of our stakeholders and the dialogue between BNP Paribas and each of them are detailed in the document How BNP Paribas listens to and takes into account the expectations of its stakeholders , updated in 2019 and circulated to the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee (CGEN). This document is available in the CSR section of the Group s website(3). A materiality matrix presenting the most important issues for the Group s internal and external stakeholders is also available in section 7.7 Extra-financial performance statement.

(1) www.economieetentreprises.bnpparibas/fr/.

(2) https://group.bnpparibas/en/key-public-positions-banking-financial-regulation.

(3) https://group.bnpparibas/en/organizationgovernance.