Improve environmental efficiency and promote circularity

Galp follows the guidelines of the relevant standards and legal requirements, including ISO 14001, the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the specific requirements described in the regulatory authority's approval.

We monitor our atmospheric emissions from both fixed and mobile sources and ensure that our performance is verified by an independent third-party.

To ensure our operations and our products are more sustainable, we have implemented the best available technologies (BAT) to reduce atmospheric emissions by:

• Optimizing combustion systems
• Adjusting the fuel portfolio
• Introducing nitrogen oxide reducing additives to the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit
• Incorporating new fuel specifications to minimize the environmental impact caused by the use of marketed products
• Establishing goals and targets based on performance KPIs

Galp’s priority is to reduce the amount of waste and its harmfulness at the source of production, promoting the recoverable proportion increase.

We seek to maximize the reuse, and the recycling or recovery of materials. Disposal is always the last management option and when it happens it is first treated to ensure the waste is sent to the appropriate destination. These concerns are carefully assessed in the various phases of the plant life cycle - design, operation, and decommissioning.

Waste management in operations is supported by risk analysis and assessment, which takes into account not only the harmfulness of the products/waste from operations, but also the capability and suitability of infrastructures and equipment to process and store them. In this way, we minimize the risks to ecosystems and human health.

We establish operational priorities for waste management in accordance with the following hierarchical levels:

• Prevention and production reduction - In the design of facilities and improved operations management
• Reuse - Of products, prolonging their useful life
• Recycling - Recovering materials/components
• Recovery - In energy terms
• Treatment and disposal.

We act in several aspects to minimize the instances of containment losses. We promote the monitoring of all primary containment losses, regardless of the volume released or the affected environment. We seek to promote the dissemination of the lessons learned from the investigation of each event, of its causes and effects. In addition to its monitoring, this information is reported in the Scorecards of the business units, which are regularly monitored by the top management.

We implement measures to prevent and mitigate spills, promoting the quality of the environment and the species and habitats that depend on it. We strive to improve the understanding of the environment in which our activities are developed, at the level of:

• Local hydrogeology
• Surface and groundwater resources quality and characteristics
• Soil type and characteristics
• Bioclimatic conditions
• Ecological vulnerability

Recognising the importance that our operations have on soil conservation in the areas where we operate, we have developed action plans and we are proactive.

We have internal standards and procedures for the sustainable management of soil and water resources. We have established methodologies, and we have aligned our activities with internationally accepted good practices and the expectations of the competent authorities and other stakeholders. From an integrated perspective of the life-cycle of our facilities, the protection of soil and water resources is ensured through:

• proper management of contaminants, waste and effluents;
• incident prevention;
• preparing responses to emergency and crisis situations.

In principle, we always have ready a responsible action in case of any threat of environmental damage.

We apply procedures to investigate and evaluate the contamination whenever loss of mechanical integrity and consequent loss of containment is suspected.

Galp evaluates its own products as well as chemicals purchased for its operations, in line with the EU’s REACH regulation, to safeguard human health and the environment from potential risks posed by chemical substances. The Company manages safety and environmental information for the products it produces, uses, and sells, focusing on their potential hazards and ensuring safe handling practices. Safety data sheets and product labelling are key tools for communicating this information.

We believe in sustained prevention by assessing risks and impacts throughout the life-cycle of projects. We strive to improve understanding of the environment in which our activities take place, at different levels:

• ecological vulnerability;
• local hydrogeology;
• quality and characteristics of water resources;
• type and characteristics of soils and bioclimatic conditions.

This knowledge is relevant for preventing and minimising the impacts of our activities, particularly at the planning and emergency response levels.

We prepare emergency response plans specific to our operations, which are periodically reviewed and tested.

Emergency plans cover all phases of emergency response, from emergency identification to closure. They include all scenarios that could result in a serious event, and they define the resources, roles, responsibilities, competencies and experiences required for each situation.

Communication channels with internal and external stakeholders are also identified, in order to minimise adverse effects on human life, the environment and assets.

We establish provisions for environmental liabilities every year. These are generally established in order to provide resources for soil and groundwater decontamination processes, as well as for block abandonment projects arising from the Upstream activity.