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Umicore

AGM Information Mar 28, 2022

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V O T E B Y C O R R E S P O N D E N C E

Ordinary, special and extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held on Thursday 28 April 2022 at 5.00 p.m.

In order to be valid, this voting form must be sent via regular postal mail or via e-mail to and lodged with UMICORE (attn. Mr B. Caeymaex, Umicore, Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais, 1000 Brussels, [email protected]) at the latest by Friday 22 April 2022. In the case of sending via e-mail, a scanned or photographed copy of the completed and signed voting form should be sent to the company.

The undersigned1 ,

Owner / usufructuary of shares of UMICORE

……………..

hereby irrevocably votes, as indicated hereafter in the appropriate boxes, on the items of the following agenda:

A. Ordinary shareholders' meeting

Item 2 - Approval of the remuneration report

First resolution
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Proposed resolution:

Approving the remuneration report for the financial year ended on 31 December 2021 as included in the annual report of the supervisory board.

YES NO ABSTAIN

Item 3 - Approval of a new remuneration policy

Second
resolution
Proposed resolution:
Approving the
new remuneration policy.
YES NO ABSTAIN

1 The person signing the vote by correspondence form should indicate clearly his/her surname (in capital letters), usual forename and address. If these particulars are already given on the form, the person signing should check and, if necessary, correct them.

Item 4 - Approval of the statutory annual accounts for the financial year ended on 31 December 2021 including the proposed allocation of the result

Third
resolution
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Proposed resolution:

  • Approving the statutory annual accounts for the financial year ended on 31 December 2021 showing a profit for the financial year in the amount of EUR 309,749,693.55.
  • Taking into account:
    • (1) the profit of the 2021 financial year: EUR 309,749,693.55
      • (2) the profit carried forward from
    • the previous financial year: EUR 352,163,337.75 (3) the allocations to and releases from the unavailable reserve related to the movements in the own shares in 2021: EUR 22,985,236.37
    • (4) the interim dividend paid out in August 2021: EUR -60,281,126.25
  • the result to be appropriated stands at EUR 624,617,141.42 - Approving the proposed appropriation of the result including the payment of a gross dividend of EUR 0,80 per share (*). Considering the gross interim dividend of EUR 0.25 per share paid in August 2021, a balance gross amount of EUR 0.55 per share (*) will be paid on

Wednesday 4 May 2022. (*) The actual gross dividend amount (and, subsequently, the balance amount) per share may fluctuate depending on possible changes in the number of own shares held by the Company between Thursday 28 April 2022 (i.e. the date of the ordinary shareholders' meeting) and Friday 29 April 2022 at Euronext Brussels closing time (i.e. the date entitling the holder of Umicore shares to the dividend (balance) relating to the financial year ended on 2021). The own shares are not entitled to a dividend.

YES NO ABSTAIN

Item 6 -
Discharge
to the members of the supervisory board

Fourth resolution

Proposed resolution:

Granting discharge to the members of the supervisory board for the performance of their mandate during the financial year ended on 31 December 2021.

YES NO ABSTAIN

Fifth resolution

Proposed resolution:

Granting discharge to the statutory auditor for the performance of his mandate during the financial year ended on 31 December 2021.

YES NO ABSTAIN

Item 8
-
Supervisory board composition
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Sixth
resolution
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Proposed resolution:

Re-electing Mrs Françoise Chombar as independent member of the supervisory board for a period of three years expiring at the end of the 2025 ordinary shareholders' meeting.

YES NO ABSTAIN
Seventh
resolution
Proposed resolution:
Re-electing Mr Laurent Raets
as member of the supervisory board for a period of three years
expiring at the end of the 2025
ordinary shareholders' meeting.
YES NO ABSTAIN
Eighth
resolution
Proposed resolution:
Electing Mrs Alison Henwood as new, independent member of the supervisory board with
effective date 1 September 2022 for a period of three years expiring at the end of the 2025
ordinary shareholders meeting.
YES NO ABSTAIN

Item 9 - Remuneration of the supervisory board

Ninth resolution

Proposed resolution:

Approving the supervisory board members' remuneration proposed for the financial year 2022 consisting of:

  • at the level of the supervisory board: (1) a fixed fee of EUR 60,000 for the chairperson and EUR 30,000 for each other member, (2) a fee per attended meeting of (a) EUR 5,000 for the chairperson, (b) EUR 3,000 for each other Belgium-based member and (c) EUR 4,000 (in case of physical attendance) or EUR 3,000 (in case of attendance by means of tele- or videoconference) for each foreign-based member, and (3) by way of additional fixed remuneration, a grant of 2,000 Umicore shares to the chairperson and 1,000 Umicore shares to each other member, which shares must be kept until at least one year after the member concerned leaves the supervisory board and at least three years after the moment of award pursuant to article 7.6 of the 2020 Belgian Code on corporate governance;
  • at the level of the audit committee and of the nomination and remuneration committee: (1) a fixed fee of EUR 10,000 for the chairperson of the committee and EUR 5,000 for each other member, and (2) a fee per attended meeting of (a) EUR 5,000 (general rule) or EUR 6,000 (only in case of physical attendance and for committee meetings not combined with a supervisory board meeting, and in any event only if the chairperson is foreign-based) for the chairperson, and (b) EUR 3,000 for each other member (general rule) or EUR 4,000 (only in case of physical attendance and for committee meetings not combined with a supervisory board meeting) for each other foreign-based member.
YES NO ABSTAIN

B. Special shareholders' meeting

AGENDA AND VOTING INSTRUCTIONS

Item 1 - Approval of change of control provisions

First resolution

Proposed resolution:

Approving, in accordance with article 7:151 of the BCCA, clause 7.2 of the sustainability-linked revolving facility agreement dated 19 October 2021 between Umicore (as borrower) and several financial institutions (as lenders), which exempts the lenders from further funding (except under rollover loans) and also, under certain conditions, entitles them to cancel their commitment under said agreement, causing their participation in all amounts (outstanding loans, accrued interests and any other amounts) to be immediately due and payable, in the event that any person or group of persons acting in concert gain(s) control over Umicore.

YES NO ABSTAIN
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AGENDA AND VOTING INSTRUCTIONS

Item 1 - Renewal of the authorisation to acquire own shares

First resolution
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Proposed resolution:

  • Authorising the Company to acquire own shares in the Company on a regulated market, until 30 June 2026 (included), within a limit of 10% of the subscribed capital, at a price per share comprised between four euros (EUR 4.00) and one hundred twenty euros (EUR 120.00);
  • Authorising the Company's direct subsidiaries to acquire shares in the Company on a regulated market within the same limits as indicated above.

Item 2 - Renewal of the powers granted to the supervisory board in the framework of the authorised capital

Second resolution

Proposed resolution:

The general meeting resolves to cancel the existing authorization as granted to the supervisory board on 26 April 2018. It resolves to grant a new authorization to the supervisory board to increase the capital of the Company in one or more times by a maximum amount of EUR 55,000,000 for a duration of five years. Accordingly, the shareholders' meeting resolves to replace the provisions of Article 6 of the articles of association ("Authorized Capital") by the following text:

"In accordance with the terms of a resolution adopted at the extraordinary general meeting held on [28 April 2022], the supervisory board is authorized, for a period of five years starting on the date the aforementioned decision is published in the Annexes to the Belgian Official Gazette, to increase the share capital by a maximum amount of EUR 55,000,000 (fifty-five million euros) according to the terms and conditions it shall define.

The supervisory board may carry out this increase in one or more times, either by contributions in cash or, subject to legal restrictions, contributions in kind, as well as by incorporation of reserves, whether available or unavailable for distribution, or of issuance premiums, with or without issuing new stock, above, below or at existing par value, in accordance with the mandatory provisions of the Code of companies and associations. These increases may give rise to the issuance of shares (with or without voting rights), convertible bonds and/or subscription rights and/or other securities, whether or not attached to other stock of the company, or attached to stock issued by another company. The supervisory board may freely determine whether the new shares shall be issued in registered or dematerialised form.

On this occasion, the supervisory board may, in the best interests of the company and in accordance with legal provisions, limit or disapply the preferential subscription rights of shareholders. The supervisory board may also limit or disapply the preferential subscription rights of shareholders in favour of one or more designated persons who, as the case may be, are not employed by the company or its subsidiaries. In the latter case, the member(s) of the supervisory board who de facto represent(s) the beneficiary of the exclusion of the preferential subscription rights or a person related to the beneficiary within the meaning of article 7:200, 2° of the Code of companies and associations, shall not participate in the vote.

If the capital increase includes an issuance premium, the amount of this premium shall be allocated to an unavailable "issuance premium" reserve, from which it may not be withdrawn in whole or part except to be incorporated into the capital by a decision of the supervisory board using, should the case arise, the authorization conferred upon it by this Article, or to be reduced or cancelled by a decision of the general meeting of shareholders in accordance with the conditions required for an amendment of the articles of association."

YES NO ABSTAIN

Done at ......................................., on ...................................................... 2022.

Signature…………………………………

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

We remind you that this voting form will only be taken into account if it is timely returned to Umicore and provided that the shareholder has complied with the admission formalities of prior registration and confirmation as described in the convening notice.

In the event that shareholders, in accordance with Article 7:130 of the Companies and Associations Code, exercise their right to request the inclusion of items on the agenda and/or to submit resolution proposals regarding existing agenda items or items to be included on the agenda, votes by correspondence notified prior to the publication of the amended agenda will remain valid for the agenda items they cover. UMICORE will also make the amended agenda and an amended vote by correspondence form available on its website (www.umicore.com) by 13 April 2022 at the latest, in order to allow shareholders who wish to do so to vote on the new agenda items and/or new/alternative resolution proposals.

In the event that new/alternative resolution proposals are submitted concerning existing agenda items after the notified votes by correspondence, shareholders will have the possibility to send a new vote by correspondence to UMICORE, by means of the amended vote by correspondence form mentioned in the previous paragraph.

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