Fnac Darty SA – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Moderate	Fnac Darty SA outlines a structured process for ensuring its public-affairs and lobbying activities are aligned with its climate strategy, noting that "the Communications and Public Affairs Department coordinates and rolls out all lobbying activities, under the authority of the Chief Executive Officer and in compliance with the Business Code of Conduct and the Group’s Charter for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest"; these actions are "reported annually to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life ... in the form of a report shared in advance with the Group’s Audit Department" that "lists the associations and federations of which the Group is a member, and indicates the amounts allocated to lobbying activities." The company further explains that "The CSR Director is in charge of ensuring consistency between the various engagement activities", supported by the "Climate Committee ... [that] meets four times a year" alongside complementary committees, and that the CSR Director "meets weekly with the Public Affair manager, and participates, alongside her, to discussion with public authorities related to climate change and actions." These aspects reveal clear ownership and a concrete governance mechanism for aligning direct lobbying with climate objectives, yet we found no evidence of any process to review or align the positions of trade associations or other indirect lobbying channels with its climate goals, nor any dedicated climate-lobbying audit or public report assessing such alignment. View Sources	C

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Moderate

Fnac Darty SA outlines a structured process for ensuring its public-affairs and lobbying activities are aligned with its climate strategy, noting that "the Communications and Public Affairs Department coordinates and rolls out all lobbying activities, under the authority of the Chief Executive Officer and in compliance with the Business Code of Conduct and the Group’s Charter for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest"; these actions are "reported annually to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life ... in the form of a report shared in advance with the Group’s Audit Department" that "lists the associations and federations of which the Group is a member, and indicates the amounts allocated to lobbying activities." The company further explains that "The CSR Director is in charge of ensuring consistency between the various engagement activities", supported by the "Climate Committee ... [that] meets four times a year" alongside complementary committees, and that the CSR Director "meets weekly with the Public Affair manager, and participates, alongside her, to discussion with public authorities related to climate change and actions." These aspects reveal clear ownership and a concrete governance mechanism for aligning direct lobbying with climate objectives, yet we found no evidence of any process to review or align the positions of trade associations or other indirect lobbying channels with its climate goals, nor any dedicated climate-lobbying audit or public report assessing such alignment.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Fnac Darty provides detailed and specific information on every aspect of its climate-related lobbying. It identifies the exact policy files it has engaged on, including the French AGEC law’s repair fund, the planned extension of France’s repairability index to additional product categories, the creation of new recycling channels, and proposals to address the environmental footprint of e-commerce through its “informed delivery” project, making it clear which pieces of legislation or regulatory reforms are being targeted. The company also explains how it lobbies and whom it approaches: it “participated in working groups” convened by the French Ministry for Ecological Transition and the CGDD, made formal presentations to ADEME and France Logistique, took part in “various consultations organised to create and implement this fund,” and is “in discussion with the public authorities and stakeholders in the governance committee,” thereby disclosing multiple concrete mechanisms and naming the government bodies involved. Finally, it is explicit about what it wants those engagements to achieve, seeking to extend the repairability index, establish additional recycling streams, broaden the repair fund so it covers “all repair proposals for consumers,” and ensure that repair subscriptions also qualify for support, as well as influencing policy on sustainable e-commerce logistics. Together these disclosures demonstrate a comprehensive level of transparency around the company’s climate-policy lobbying.	A