Discovering mediation
ENGIE Group’s Mediation is independent
Its practice of resolving disputes primarily favours personalised handling of complainants in order to optimise the success rate.
OBJECTIVE #1
PROCESS THE COMPLAINTS OF THE ENGIE GROUP'S VARIOUS FRENCH ENTITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES AS PART OF A LAST FORM OF AMICABLE RESOLUTION,
In volume terms, most of the Ombudsman's work consists in disputes involving domestic customers in the field of energy supply: gas, electricity and related services.
OBJECTIVE #2
DEVELOP RECOURSE TO MEDIATION WITHIN OTHER SERVICE ENTITIES,
when all the levels in charge of the complaints have given their verdict and when their answers fail to satisfy the complainant
OBJECTIVE #3
PROMOTE AND DEVELOP THE CONCEPT OF AMICABLE RESOLUTION
The ENGIE Group's Mediation team actively exchanges with all stakeholders, such as consumer organisations, key players in the process. It is also a member of the Club des Médiateurs de Services au Public (Club of Public Service Mediators), which aims to raise public awareness of this amicable dispute resolution method (in particular via its website www.clubdesmediateurs.fr)
The independent status of the ENGIE Ombudsman
The Ombudsman, Jean-Pierre Hervé, has been registered since 25 February 2016, by the CECMC (Commission for Evaluation and Control of Consumer Mediation), in accordance with the provisions of the French Consumer Code (articles L 611-1 to L 641-1, and article R 612-1 to R 616-2), on the list of consumption ombudsmen, and as such, notified to the European Commission.
ENGIE Group’s Mediation therefore fully complies with the fundamental rules imposed by French and European regulations:
- Appointment by a joint nominating body, consumer organisations and members of the ENGIE Group (meeting on 11 December 2015),
- Renewable and irrevocable 5-year mandate. At the end of his mandate, the Ombudsman is forbidden to work for ENGIE for at least three years,
- Without any relationship of subordination with ENGIE. The Ombudsman is clearly distinct from the ENGIE Group’s operational bodies,
- Autonomous budget. Every year, the Ombudsman is assigned a budget by the Group’s Senior Management, which gives him the means to carry out his mission independently. The budget is not conditional upon any targets or outcomes of completed mediation processes. Neither is he bound by any cyclical decisions made by the Group. In fact, in 2015, his budget rose because of the increase in his workload and his development plan,
- A team of experts, exclusively dedicated to ENGIE Group’s Mediation,
- Not be in a conflict of interest but, if so, to report it.
The specificities of ENGIE Mediation
Beyond the mediation process put in place, in accordance with the regulatory provisions, the ENGIE Group’s Ombudsman offers specific and personalised handling, at the service of the parties involved in the dispute.
Developing Mediation in France and in the rest of the world
Since his appointment in July 2014, the Ombudsman has defined a development plan for recourse to the amicable resolution of disputes, within all subsidiaries and divisions, in France, Europe and worldwide, for the ENGIE Group, present in 70 countries.