2021 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

4. L’Oréal’s social, environmental and societal responsibility

4.5.2.3.  Contribute to solving the challenges of the world
Supporting the most vulnerable women
Scope of consolidation

This indicator is calculated over a global scope using data accumulated since the Fund was launched. It is the number of structures (NGOs, etc.) supported by the Fund, the number of women directly supported by these structures with the assistance of the Fund, and the budget in euros allocated since the launch of the Fund.

4.5.3.  Human Rights data

4.5.3.1.  Scope of consolidation

The scope of consolidation of human rights data arising from ethics reporting is identical to that of social data.

4.5.3.2.  Indicators

The indicators chosen are those within the scope of the applicable regulations, with in particular the aim of data comparability.

Data

Data is collected by the structures supported by the Fund which have used all or a portion of the budget allocated during the reference period. The data are collected and consolidated by the Fund teams (within the Department of Corporate Responsibility), who perform consistency controls on the basis of the information reported and a certificate of conformity transmitted by the partner structures.

The budget allocated is monitored and consolidated by the Fund’s teams within the Department of Corporate Responsibility in cooperation with the Finance team of the Founder (L’Oréal).

4.5.3.3.  Data

The following methods are used to collect data for the defined scope:

  • the data relating to Ethics and Human Rights for L’Oréal subsidiaries is collected by the Ethics, Risk and Compliance Department using the Annual Ethics Reporting platform. The scope is aligned with individual company data unless otherwise indicated for each indicator in the report;
  • Human Rights data for the employees of the Group’s suppliers are consolidated by the Purchasing Department and collected during social audits by an independent and accredited third party that carries out the audits and shares the data collected as well as the audit reports; and
  • the other data are collected from the corporate departments concerned (Corporate Social Responsibility, Worldwide Product Safety Evaluation, Ethics, Risk and Compliance, and the L’Oréal Foundation).