Corporate Responsibility

Hello, welcome to the first production anywhere within the Vygon Group, of a sustainability report. We have entitled the report Vygon Business Responsibility because Vygon (UK) Ltd is a supplier to a market in which responsibility is already an important factor. Business responsibility ensures all employees will recognise the need to continue existing activities with due consideration towards the responsibility that sustainability represents.

Vygon UK produced the first sustainability report in 2010. It was entitled the report Vygon Business Responsibility because Vygon (UK) Ltd is a supplier to a market in which responsibility is already an important factor. Business responsibility ensures all employees will recognise the need to continue existing activities with due consideration towards the responsibility that sustainability represents.

The report has been addressed by Vygon (UK) Ltd independently of the Group at this stage. Therefore any reference to “the company” will be Vygon (UK) Ltd and any reference to “the Group” will be the Vygon Group. Vygon SA is the French section of the Group, head office, main manufacturing and sterilisation, storage and distribution operations.

The main objective of the report is to set the scene and establish an appropriate direction forward. We have not therefore referred to any specific timescales for objectives and aims that are set. Establishing objectives and aims is an objective in itself. It is expected that development plans produced as a result of this report will include timescales related to primary sustainability objectives.

Any figures referred to are taken from the end of the calendar and our financial year of 2009. It is expected that the Vygon (UK) Ltd report will trigger similar reports from within the Group and possibly a Group report. Any future report will include timescales based on factors produced within this report.

Vygon (UK) Ltd has therefore pioneered the research and knowledge required to produce Vygon Business Responsibility. In doing so has elected to work:

• Within the principles of AA1000
• Follow the GRI guidelines