Stakeholder engagement

Our stakeholders are employees, customers, suppliers, investors and other entities that can affect or be affected by our activities and products. Maintaining an open dialog with our stakeholders is essential to understand their interests and expectations. I 102-40 I

Each ST site conducts specific actions depending on its activity, size, location and culture, and all ST sites have regular exchanges with major local stakeholders, such as local authorities, schools and universities. During the verification process of this report, DNV GL interviewed three stakeholders about their relations with ST. All of them expressed the positive impact of their collaboration with ST. I 102-42 I 102-43 I

Key expectations are the top three issues retained by each group of stakeholders in our 2017 materiality exercise. I 102-44 I