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"There is also a whistle-blowing mechanism that is available to all Crédit Agricole Group employees, external and occasional staff, and contractors and suppliers with which the Group has an established business relationship. This enables these people to report any failure to comply with the Group's ethics, policies or procedures directly to the entity's Compliance officer and without informing their supervisor. In accordance with regulations, the whistle blower's identity is kept confidential.To assist employees who wish to exercise their whistle-blowing right, the Crédit Agricole Group is deploying a new IT platform for reporting compliance alerts that ensures the strict confidentiality of the whistle-blower's identity, of the information reported, of the person or people involved, and of the information exchanged between the whistle-blower and the person who processes the information. This tool will be progressively deployed throughout the Crédit Agricole Group in the first half of 2019."