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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY– NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

VERIFICATION REPORT OF THE DECLARATION OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

4.9 VERIFICATION REPORT OF THE DECLARATION

OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The declaration of non-financial performance examined relates to the financial year ended December31, 2019.

Request, Responsibilities and Independence

Following the request made to us by Publicis Groupe and pursuant to the provisions of articleL.225-102-1 of the French Commercial

Code, we have verified the declaration of non-financial performance (DNFP) relating to the financial year ended 12/31/2020 published

in the Universal Registration Document of Publicis Groupe, as an independent third party accredited by the Cofrac under no.3-1341

(list of locations and scope available on www.cofrac.fr).

It is the responsibility of the Management Board of Publicis Groupe to prepare and publish a DNFP with reference to articlesL.225-

102-1, R.225-105 and R.225-105-1 of the French Commercial Code. The DNFP was prepared in accordance with Publicis Groupe’s

reporting procedures, hereinafter referred to as “the reporting procedures”. The DNFP will be available on the Company’s website

together with a summary of the “reporting procedures”.

It is our responsibility to audit the DNFP so that we can formulate a reasoned opinion regarding:

 compliance of the DNFP with the provisions of articleR.225-105 of the French Commercial Code;

 the true nature of the information provided in accordance with paragraph3° ofI andII of articleR.225-105;

We conducted the DNFP audit work in an impartial and independent manner, in accordance with the professional practices of the

independent third party, based notably on the principles of AA1000 and in application of the Code of Ethics applied by all parties

involved in Bureau Veritas’ work.

Nature and scope of the audit work

In order to issue a reasoned opinion on the compliance of the DNFP and a reasoned opinion on the fairness of the information

provided, we performed our audit work in accordance with articlesA.225-1 to A.225-4 of the French Commercial Code and with our

internal methodology, for the verification of the DNFP, in particular:

 we have taken note of the scope of consolidation to be considered for the preparation of the DNFP, as specified in articleL.233-

16 of the French Commercial Code. We checked that the DNFP covers all the companies included in the scope of consolidation

specified in the DNFP;

 we gathered items to assist understanding of the Company’s activities, the context in which the Company operates, and the social

and environmental consequences of its activities and the effects of these activities on respect for human rights and combating

corruption and tax evasion;

 we have read the content of the DNFP and verified that it incorporates the elements of articleR.225-105 of the French Commercial

Code:

• presentation of the Company’s business model,

• the description of the main risks related to the Company’s activity, for each category of information mentioned inIII of

articleL.225-102-1, including, where relevant and proportionate, the risks created by its business relationships, products or

services, as well as the policies applied by the Company, where applicable, the due diligence procedures implemented to

prevent, identify and mitigate the occurrence of the risks identified,

• the outcome of these policies, including key performance indicators.

In detail, our audit work was as follows:

 we examined the Company’s system for reviewing the consequences of its activities as listed inIII of articleL.225-102-1, identifying

and prioritizing the related risks;

 we ensured that the DNFP covers all the categories of information provided for in this article or includes a clear and reasoned

explanation of the reasons justifying the absence of a policy concerning one or more of these risks;

 we verified that the DNFP presents, where relevant with regard to the main risks or policies presented, the information provided

for inII of articleR.225-105;

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