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AD Plastik d.d.

Environmental & Social Information Apr 24, 2025

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Independent Auditor's Limited Assurance Report on the Sustainability Report

To the Shareholders of AD Plastik d.d.

Limited assurance conclusion

We have performed a limited assurance engagement on whether the consolidated Sustainability Report of AD Plastik d.d. ("the Company") and its subsidiaries (collectively, "the Group"), included in the Sustainability Report section of the Group's Management Report as of and for the year ended 31 December 2024 ("the Sustainability Report"), has been prepared in accordance with the Croatian Accounting Law (Official Gazette 85/24,145/24) ("the Accounting Law").

Based on the procedures performed and evidence obtained, nothing has come to our attention to cause us to believe that the Group's Sustainability Report as of and for the year ended 31 December 2024 is not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the Accounting Law, including:

  • Compliance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS"), including that the process carried out by the Group to identify the information reported in the Sustainability Report ("the Process") is in accordance with the description set out in the Double materiality analysis section thereof; and
  • Compliance of the disclosures in the EU Taxonomy section of the Sustainability Report with the reporting requirements of Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 ("the Taxonomy Regulation").

Our conclusion on the Sustainability Report does not extend to any other information that accompanies or contains the Sustainability Report and our limited assurance report thereon, nor to any information within the Sustainability Report not in scope of our assurance engagement. We have not performed any assurance procedures as part of this engagement with respect to such other information. However, we audited the Company's separate and the Group's consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended 31 December 2024 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union, forming part of the other information, and our auditor's reports thereon are also included with the other information.

Basis for conclusion

We conducted our limited assurance engagement in accordance with International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised), Assurance Engagements Other Than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information, issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB). Our responsibilities under this standard are further described in the "Our responsibilities" section of our report.

We have complied with the independence and other ethical requirements of the International Code of Ethics of Professional Accountants (including International Independence Standards) issued by the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA code), together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our assurance engagements on the Sustainability Reports in Croatia.

Our firm applies International Standard on Quality Management (ISQM) 1, Quality Management for Firms that Perform Audits or Reviews of Financial Statements, or Other Assurance or Related Services Engagements, issued by the IAASB. This standard requires the firm to design, implement and operate a system of quality management, including policies or procedures regarding compliance with ethical requirements, professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

We believe that the evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our conclusion.

Other matter – Comparative information

Our assurance engagement does not extend to comparative information in respect of earlier periods. Our conclusion is not modified in respect of this matter.

Independent Auditor's Limited Assurance Report on the Sustainability Report (continued)

Responsibilities for the Sustainability Report

The Management of the Company is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a process to identify the information reported in the Sustainability Report in accordance with the ESRS and for disclosing this Process in the Double materiality analysis section of the Sustainability Report. This responsibility includes:

  • Understanding the context in which the Group's activities and business relationships take place and developing an understanding of its affected stakeholders;
  • Identifying the actual and potential impacts (both negative and positive) related to sustainability matters, as well as risks and opportunities that affect, or could reasonably be expected to affect, the Group's financial position, financial performance, cash flows, access to finance or cost of capital over the short-, medium-, or long-term;
  • Assessing the materiality of the identified impacts, risks and opportunities related to sustainability matters by selecting and applying appropriate thresholds; and
  • Developing methodologies and making assumptions that are reasonable in the circumstances.

The Management of the Company is further responsible for the preparation of the Sustainability Report in accordance with the Accounting Law, including:

  • Compliance with the ESRS;
  • Preparing the disclosures in the EU taxonomy section of the Sustainability Report, in compliance with Article 8 of the Taxonomy Regulation;
  • Designing, implementing and maintaining such internal controls that the Management of the Company determines are necessary to enable the preparation of the Sustainability Report such that it is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; and
  • Selecting and applying appropriate sustainability reporting methods and making assumptions and estimates about individual sustainability disclosures that are reasonable in the circumstances.

Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the reporting process for the Group's Sustainability Report.

Inherent limitations in preparing the Sustainability Report

There are inherent limitations regarding the measurement or evaluation of the sustainability matters presented in the Sustainability Report subject to limited assurance, which have been set out below:

  • As described in the About the Integrated Report, greenhouse gas emissions quantification is subject to inherent uncertainty as a result of both scientific and estimation uncertainty.
  • In reporting forward-looking information in accordance with the ESRS, the Management is required to prepare the forward-looking information on the basis of disclosed assumptions about events that may occur in the future and possible future actions by the Group. The actual outcome is likely to be different since anticipated events frequently do not occur as expected.
  • In determining the disclosures in the Sustainability Report, the Management interprets undefined legal and other terms. Undefined legal and other terms may be interpreted differently, including the legal conformity of their interpretation and, accordingly, are subject to uncertainties.

Independent Auditor's Limited Assurance Report on the Sustainability Report (continued)

Our responsibilities

Our objectives are to plan and perform the assurance engagement to obtain limited assurance about whether the Sustainability Report is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and reporting our limited assurance conclusion to the Company's shareholders. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence decisions of users taken on the basis of the Sustainability Report as a whole.

Our responsibilities in relation to the Process for reporting the Sustainability Report, include:

  • Obtaining an understanding of the Process but not for the purpose of providing a conclusion on the effectiveness of the Process, including the outcome of the Process; and
  • Designing and performing procedures to evaluate whether the Process is consistent with the Group's description of its Process, as disclosed in the Double materiality analysis section.

Our other responsibilities in respect of the Sustainability Report include:

  • Obtaining an understanding of the Group's control environment, processes and information systems relevant to the preparation of the Sustainability Report but not evaluating the design of particular control activities, obtaining evidence about their implementation or testing their operating effectiveness;
  • Identifying disclosures where material misstatements are likely to arise, whether due to fraud or error; and
  • Designing and performing procedures focused on disclosures in the Sustainability Report where material misstatements are likely to arise. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

Summary of the work we performed as the basis for our conclusion

A limited assurance engagement involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about the Sustainability Report. We designed and performed our procedures to obtain evidence about the Sustainability Report that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our conclusion.

The nature, timing and extent of our procedures depended on our understanding of the Sustainability Report and other engagement circumstances, including the identification of disclosures where material misstatements are likely to arise, whether due to fraud or error, in the Sustainability Report. We exercised professional judgment and maintained professional skepticism throughout the engagement.

In conducting our limited assurance engagement, with respect to the Process, the procedures we performed included:

  • Obtaining an understanding of the Process by:
    • o performing inquiries to understand the sources of the information used by management (including stakeholder engagement, business plans and strategy documents); and
    • o inspecting the Group's internal documentation of its Process.
  • Evaluating whether the evidence obtained from our procedures about the Process was consistent with the description of the Process set out in the Double materiality analysis section.

Independent Auditor's Limited Assurance Report on the Sustainability Report (continued)

Summary of the work we performed as the basis for our conclusion (continued)

In conducting our limited assurance engagement with respect to the Sustainability Report, the procedures we performed included:

  • Obtaining an understanding of the Group's reporting processes relevant to the preparation of its Sustainability Report by performing inquiries of the relevant personnel and inspecting the Group's internal documentary evidence;
  • Evaluating whether material information identified by the Process is included in the Sustainability Report;
  • Evaluating whether the structure and the presentation of the Sustainability Report is in accordance with the ESRS;
  • Performing inquiries of relevant personnel and analytical procedures on selected disclosures in the Sustainability Report;
  • Performing substantive assurance procedures on a sample basis on selected disclosures in the Sustainability Report;
  • Obtaining evidence on the methods, assumptions and data for developing material estimates and forward-looking information and on how these methods were applied;
  • Obtaining an understanding of the process to identify taxonomy-eligible and taxonomy-aligned economic activities and the corresponding disclosures in the Sustainability Report;
  • Evaluating whether the standardized reporting templates required by the Taxonomy Regulation were appropriately used to present the key performance indicators;
  • Assessing whether the taxonomy disclosures are reconciled, where relevant, with the Group's consolidated financial statements; and
  • Performing substantive assurance procedures on selected taxonomy disclosures.

The procedures performed in a limited assurance engagement vary in nature and timing from, and are less in extent than for, a reasonable assurance engagement. Consequently, the level of assurance obtained in a limited assurance engagement is substantially lower than the assurance that would have been obtained had a reasonable assurance engagement been performed.

KPMG Croatia d.o.o. za reviziju 24 April 2025 Croatian Certified Auditors Eurotower, 17th floor Ivana Lučića 2a 10000 Zagreb Croatia

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