Audit Report / Information • Mar 26, 2025
Audit Report / Information
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KPMG S.p.A. Revisione e organizzazione contabile Viale Giovanni Falcone, 30/A 43121 PARMA PR Telefono +39 521 236211 Email [email protected] PEC [email protected]
(The accompanying translated separate financial statements of Cellularline S.p.A. constitute a non-official version which is not compliant with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815. This independent auditors' report has been translated into English solely for the convenience of international readers. Accordingly, only the original Italian version is authoritative.)
To the shareholders of Cellularline S.p.A.
We have audited the separate financial statements of Cellularline S.p.A. (the "company"), which comprise the statement of financial position as at 31 December 2024, the income statement and the statements of comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity for the year then ended and notes thereto, which include material information on the accounting policies.
In our opinion, the separate financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of Cellularline S.p.A. as at 31 December 2024 and of its financial performance and cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with the IFRS Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and endorsed by the European Union, as well as the Italian regulations implementing article 9 of Legislative decree no. 38/05.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing (ISA Italia). Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the "Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the separate financial statements" section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethics and independence rules and standards applicable in Italy to audits of financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance in the audit of the separate financial statements of the current year. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the separate financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
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Notes to the separate financial statements: note 2.2 – Use of estimates and judgements in the preparation of the separate financial statements, note 6.2 – Goodwill and note 6.2.1 – Impairment test on goodwill
| Key audit matter | Audit procedures addressing the key audit matter |
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| The company's separate financial statements at 31 December 2024 include goodwill of €18.4 million. |
Our audit procedures, which also involved our own specialists, included: |
| The directors determine the recoverable amount of goodwill by calculating its value in use. This method, by its very nature, requires a high level of directors' judgement about the projected operating cash flows and the discount and growth rates of those cash flows. For impairment testing purposes, the directors used the expected operating cash flows estimated on the basis of the company's 2025-2028 business plan (the "plan"), approved by the company's board of directors on 26 February 2025. The company's board of directors approved the impairment test on 5 March 2025. The operating cash flow estimate reflects the potential impact of the market performance and, in general, of the current macroeconomic scenario. Considering the above, we believe that the recoverability of goodwill is a key audit matter. |
• understanding and analysing the processes adopted for impairment testing and the preparation of the plan; |
| • analysing the reasonableness of the key assumptions used by the directors to determine the operating cash flows. Our analyses included comparing the key assumptions used to the company's and group's historical data and external information, where available; |
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| • analysing the valuation models adopted by the directors for reasonableness and consistency with professional practice; |
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| • checking the directors' sensitivity analysis described in the notes in relation to the key assumptions used for impairment testing; |
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| • assessing the appropriateness of the disclosures provided in the notes about goodwill and the |
related impairment test.
The directors are responsible for the preparation of separate financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with the IFRS Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and endorsed by the European Union, as well as the Italian regulations implementing article 9 of Legislative decree no. 38/05 and, within the terms established by the Italian law, for such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
The directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern and for the appropriate use of the going concern basis in the preparation of the separate financial statements and for the adequacy of the related disclosures. The use of this basis of accounting is appropriate unless the directors believe that the conditions for liquidating the company or ceasing operations exist, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Collegio Sindacale is responsible for overseeing, within the terms established by the Italian law, the company's financial reporting process.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the separate financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISA Italia will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these separate financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with ISA Italia, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
We communicate with those charged with governance, identified at the appropriate level required by ISA Italia, regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with the ethics and independence rules and standards applicable in Italy and communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, the measures taken to eliminate those threats or the safeguards applied.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the separate financial statements of the current year and are, therefore, the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors' report.

On 16 April 2019, the company's shareholders appointed us to perform the statutory audit of its separate and consolidated financial statements as at and for the years ending from 31 December 2019 to 31 December 2027.
We declare that we did not provide the prohibited non-audit services referred to in article 5.1 of Regulation (EU) no. 537/14 and that we remained independent of the company in conducting the statutory audit.
We confirm that the opinion on the separate financial statements expressed herein is consistent with the additional report to the Collegio Sindacale, in its capacity as audit committee, prepared in accordance with article 11 of the Regulation mentioned above.
The company's directors are responsible for the application of the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815 with regard to regulatory technical standards on the specification of a single electronic reporting format (ESEF) to the separate financial statements at 31 December 2024 to be included in the annual financial report.
We have performed the procedures required by Standard on Auditing (SA Italia) 700B in order to express an opinion on the compliance of the separate financial statements with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815.
In our opinion, the separate financial statements at 31 December 2024 have been prepared in XHTML format in compliance with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815.
The company's directors are responsible for the preparation of a directors' report and a report on corporate governance and ownership structure at 31 December 2024 and for the consistency of such reports with the related separate financial statements and their compliance with the applicable law.
We have performed the procedures required by Standard on Auditing (SA Italia) 720B in order to:

In our opinion, the directors' report and the specific information presented in the report on corporate governance and ownership structure required by article 123-bis.4 of Legislative decree no. 58/98 are consistent with the company's separate financial statements at 31 December 2024.
Moreover, in our opinion, the directors' report and the specific information presented in the report on corporate governance and ownership structure required by article 123-bis.4 of Legislative decree no. 58/98 have been prepared in compliance with the applicable law.
With reference to the above statement required by article 14.2.e-ter) of Legislative decree no. 39/10, based on our knowledge and understanding of the entity and its environment obtained through our audit, we have nothing to report.
Parma, 26 March 2025
KPMG S.p.A.
(signed on the original)
Federico Superchi Director of Audit
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