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Paris, March 16, 2010 Subject: PSA PEUGEOT CITRO?N response to Business Human Rights Resource Dear Mr Westby, As you are considering drawing attention to the recent SOMO report called, Driven by corporate Social Responsibility? Top ten Car Manufacturers: a CSR Analysis, please find here some comments. First of all, let me react about the conclusion drawn by SOMO and your organisation alleging that none of the ten carmakers do observe human rights in sourcing policies. It is not what it is written in the document. The SOMO report writes about PSA PEUGEOT CITRO?N regarding Supply Chain Responsibility: “PSA: Every subsidiary has pledged to support the Global Framework Agreement on Social Responsibility.31 In 2006, PSA Peugeot Citro?n published supplier guidelines for its social and environmental responsibility requirements. The 1,000 largest suppliers, accounting for around 95% of PSA’s worldwide purchases were asked to commit to the standards. At the end of 2008, 71% of worldwide purchases were covered by a supplier agreement. These agreements include principles on human and labour rights, as well as the environment. The last requirement included in the guidelines concerns ‘supplier relationships with its own suppliers’, stipulating that: ‘The Supplier is obliged to obtain from its own suppliers an agreement similar to the one it is signing with PSA Peugeot Citro?n through this document.’32 Targeted audits are conducted for suppliers deemed to be ‘at risk’.” Secondly, I’d like to add that we agree on the fact that sourcing metals is a specific issue for a carmaker.  As it is said in the SOMO report: “PSA: PSA provides somewhat detailed information about its use of raw materials on its website as one of its environmental indicators. It makes a distinction between direct and indirect use of steel (1,140,000 tonnes direct; 1,860,000 indirect), non-ferrous metals (50,000 direct; 270,000 indirect) and synthetics (630,000 tonnes indirect).55 PSA makes a conscious li