3DS has developed a governance model plan, suitable with its activities, at worldwide level.

• Sustainability Leader

In each geographic region, the Sustainability Leader is in charge of reducing the environmental footprint and pushing for local green initiatives in his/her region.

• Educating employees about environmental protection

Dassault Systèmes pursues an on-going policy of internal awareness via presentations of actions and technologies to foster understanding of environmental challenges by employees ultimately leading to the reduction of the environmental impact of the Company’s activities.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

To reduce its environmental impact 3DS defined an environmental policy at the Group level. This environmental policy is related to:

• Energy efficiency: Moving into Environmentally-Certified Buildings

3DS Paris Campus

3DS Boston Campus

• Travel policy

Dassault Systèmes’ travel policy limits the impact of business travel on the environment. For example, under this policy, employees are encouraged to give preference to meetings by conference call and video conference rather than by physical travel. They are also required to choose environmental friendly travel transportation mode.

• Green purchasing policy

• Recycling plan

Dassault Systèmes strives to implement in each location where it is present paper and plastic recycling.

• IT equipment policy

Recycling of computer equipment is handled by recycling businesses or associations ensuring proper end-of-life of equipments through waste electrical and electronic equipment programs.

Datacenter virtualization: Dassault Systèmes has a strong virtualization strategy with 80% of the servers at its principal data center already virtualized. For equivalent capacity, the virtualization of the data center generated a 14% savings in energy consumption in 2011 and a 25% savings in 2010.