2017 Sustainability Overview | Prysmian Group

PRYSMIAN GROUP 2017 SUSTAINABILITY OVERVIEW TAKING ACTION The analysis makes it possible to identify the sustainability issues that have significant impact both for the Group and its stakeholders, in economic, environmental and social terms, as well as to map the new needs and the new requirements of the stakeholders in relation to the strategy and the Group's risk management process. The materiality analysis process followed by the Prysmian Group involves 4 phases: stakeholder mapping and identification of relevant sustainability issues, prioritisation of the issues based on the evaluation of their relevance for the Group and of their relevance for stakeholders, elaboration of the materiality matrix. With the aim of having an updated and integrated overview of the global and industry context, an additional documentary analysis of external sources was carried out in 2017, which allowed to identify the main sector trends and any new issues that emerged as relevant. In 2017 Prysmian Group further extended and refined its materiality analysis created by following the "G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines" of the Global Reporting Initiative. ANALYSING MATERIALITY, EVEN MORE IN DEPTH