Remuneration Information • Apr 9, 2024
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Ospitaletto (BS), 19 March 2024

For the purposes of this information document, the terms and expressions listed below have the meaning indicated below for each of them:
| "Chief Executive Officer" | The subject who will be appointed chief |
|---|---|
| executive officer of the Company by its | |
| competent bodies for the three-year |
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| period from 2024 to 2026, expiring on the | |
| date of approval of the financial |
|
| statements for the 2026 financial year. | |
| "Assignment" | The free assignment of the Options to |
| each Beneficiary decided by the Board of | |
| Directors. | |
| "Shareholders' Meeting" | The Shareholders' Meeting of the |
| Company. | |
| "Allocation" | The determination of the Board of |
| Directors, after verifying the occurrence | |
| of the conditions set out in the Plan, of the | |
| total number of Shares that each |
|
| Beneficiary will receive free of charge at | |
| the end of the Vesting Period. | |
| "Shares" | The ordinary shares of the Company, |
| listed on the MTA (Electronic Stock | |
| Market) organised and managed by Borsa | |
| Italiana S.p.A., with a nominal value of | |
| €1.00 per share. | |
| "Beneficiaries" | All the beneficiaries of the Plan, pursuant |
| to paragraph 1 of the Information |
|
| Document. | |
| "Bonus" | The bonus that will be paid to each |
| Beneficiary under the Plan upon |
|
| achievement of the Performance Targets. |

| "Change of Control" | The change of control of the Company |
|---|---|
| pursuant to the regulations in force. | |
| "Adjusted Invested Capital" | The invested capital as identified in the |
| Group's consolidated reclassified balance | |
| sheet at 31 December 2026, excluding the | |
| effects of applying IAS 29 |
|
| (hyperinflation). | |
| "CFO" | The manager who holds the position of |
| CFO of the Company. | |
| "Code" | The Corporate Governance Code of |
| Listed Companies approved by the |
|
| Corporate Governance Committee of |
|
| Borsa Italiana S.p.A. in January 2020. | |
| "Board of Statutory Auditors" | The Company's pro tempore Board of |
| Statutory Auditors. | |
| "Remuneration and Nomination Committee" | The Committee set up by the Company, |
| also in implementation of the |
|
| recommendations contained in the Code, | |
| with advisory and proposal functions | |
| regarding the remuneration of the |
|
| members of the Board of Directors and of | |
| the Executives with strategic |
|
| responsibilities. | |
| "Delivery" | The payment of the Shares to each of the |
| Beneficiaries of the Plan following the | |
| Allocation approved by the Board of | |
| Directors. | |
| "Board of Directors" | The pro tempore Board of Directors of the |
| Company, possibly also through one or | |
| more of its members specifically |
|
| delegated for this purpose. | |

| "Assignment Date" | The date on which the Board of Directors |
|---|---|
| will approve the number of Options to be | |
| assigned to each Beneficiary. | |
| "Allocation Date" | The date on which the Board of Directors, |
| after checking that the conditions of the | |
| Plan have been met, will resolve on the | |
| number of Shares to be allocated to each | |
| Beneficiary and will arrange for the | |
| communication of the Allocation of |
|
| Shares to be sent to each Beneficiary. | |
| "Executives with strategic responsibilities" | The subjects who, directly or indirectly, |
| have the power and the responsibility to | |
| plan, manage and control the Company's | |
| activities. | |
| "Options" | The options assigned to the Beneficiaries |
| to receive the Shares free of charge in | |
| accordance with the Plan. | |
| "Information Document" | This information document relating to the |
| Plan, prepared pursuant to Article 114-bis | |
| of the TUF and of Article 84-bis of the |
|
| Issuers' Regulations. | |
| "Adjusted EBIT" | The net operating margin as identified in |
| the Group's consolidated income |
|
| statement at 31 December 2026, |
|
| excluding the effects of applying IAS 29 | |
| (hyperinflation). | |
| "Adjusted EBITDA" | The gross operating margin as identified |
| in the Group's consolidated income |
|
| statement at 31 December 2026, |
|
| excluding the effects of applying IAS 29 | |
| (hyperinflation). | |

| "Good Leaver" | The consensual termination of the |
|---|---|
| Relationship, resignation for just cause, | |
| dismissal by the Board of Directors | |
| without just cause, dismissal for objective | |
| reasons, retirement, death or physical | |
| impediment preventing working activity | |
| for a period of not less than 6 months. | |
| "Group" | The company Sabaf S.p.A. and the |
| Subsidiary Companies. | |
| "Replacement Amount" | It has the meaning set out in paragraph |
| 4.1. | |
| "Letter of Assignment" | The letter informing the Beneficiaries of |
| their participation in the Plan, which | |
| contains the number of Options assigned | |
| and the Performance Targets to which the | |
| Allocation of Shares is subject. | |
| "Malus and Clawback" | Ex-post correction mechanisms that |
| envisage downward adjustments to the | |
| number of Shares to be allocated or | |
| allocated to the Beneficiary, in |
|
| accordance with the Company's |
|
| Remuneration Policy. | |
| "Performance Targets" / "KPI" | Financial Performance Targets and non |
| financial Performance Targets in the | |
| Plan. | |
| "Financial Performance targets" | Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted ROI. |
| "Non-financial Performance targets" | The social and environmental |
| sustainability targets envisaged by the | |
| Plan. | |
| "Lock-up Period" | The period of time following the Delivery |
| during which the Beneficiaries will not be | |
| able to dispose of part of the allocated | |
| Shares. | |

| "Vesting Period" | The period between the Assignment of |
|---|---|
| Options and the Allocation of Shares. | |
| "Reference Period" | The three-year period from 2024 to 2026 |
| with regard to which to calculate and | |
| check the Performance Targets. | |
| "Business Plan" | The business plan approved by the Board |
| of Directors on 19 March 2024, as may be | |
| amended or supplemented subsequently. | |
| "Plan" | The draft long-term remuneration plan |
| described in the Information Document. | |
| "Remuneration Policy" | The remuneration policy and |
| remuneration paid for members of the | |
| board of directors, general managers and | |
| Executives with strategic responsibilities | |
| approved by the Board of Directors of 19 | |
| March 2024 and that will be submitted to | |
| the Shareholders' meeting of 8 May 2024 |
|
| for approval pursuant to Article 123-ter | |
| of the TUF. | |
| "Reference Price" | It has the meaning specified in paragraph |
| 4.1. | |
| "RAL" | Fixed gross annual remuneration, as also |
| defined and detailed in the Remuneration | |
| Policy. | |
| "Relationship" | The employment and/or collaboration |
| and/or administration relationship |
|
| between the Beneficiary and the |
|
| Company or a Subsidiary. | |
| "Issuers' Regulations" | Consob Regulation no. 11971, approved |
| with resolution of 14 May 1999 as | |
| amended and supplemented. | |

| "Regulation" | The regulation defining the criteria, |
|---|---|
| terms, characteristics, conditions and |
|
| methods for implementing the Plan. | |
| "Adjusted ROI" | The indicator that measures the |
| profitability of the Group's ordinary |
|
| operations, in relation to the invested | |
| capital, and is expressed as the ratio of | |
| Adjusted EBIT to total Adjusted Invested | |
| Capital. | |
| "Subsidiary Companies" | The Italian and/or foreign companies |
| controlled by the Company pursuant to | |
| Article 2359 of the Italian Civil Code. | |
| "Company" | Sabaf S.p.A., with registered office in |
| Ospitaletto (BS), via Dei Carpini n. 1. | |
| "TUF" | Legislative decree no. 58 of 24 February |
| 1998 as amended and supplemented. |

The Information Document was prepared in compliance with the provisions of Article 84-bis of the Issuers' Regulations, in order to provide the Shareholders' Meeting with the information necessary to approve the Plan, which falls within the definition of a relevant plan pursuant to Article 84-bis paragraph 2 of the Issuers' Regulations.
The Plan is consistent with the provisions of the TUF, the Issuers' Regulations, the Code, as well as the Remuneration Policy.
The Plan is intended for persons who hold or will hold key positions in the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, with reference to the implementation of the contents and the achievement of the objectives of the Business Plan.
The Beneficiaries are identified in the Plan, Chief Executive Officer and CFO, or will be identified by the Board of Directors after obtaining the opinion of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee - as specified in paragraphs 1.1 to 1.4 below and on the basis of the objectives set out in paragraph 2.1. – among the members of the Board of Directors and/or among the Executives with strategic responsibilities. More specifically, without prejudice to the competence to identify the Board of Directors:
As at the date of preparation of this Information Document, it should be noted that among the Beneficiaries of the Plan already identified, at the suggestion of the Remuneration and

Nomination Committee, only the Chief Executive Officer and the CFO also hold the position of director of the Company.
Therefore, the names of any further Beneficiaries required pursuant to this paragraph 1.1. will be communicated at a later date, pursuant to Article 84-bis paragraph 5 of the Issuers' Regulations.
1.2. THE CATEGORIES OF EMPLOYEES OR COLLABORATORS OF THE ISSUER OF THE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND OF THE COMPANIES CONTROLLING OR CONTROLLED BY THIS ISSUER.
The managers of the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, who hold or will hold key positions within the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, with reference to the implementation of the contents and achievement of the objectives of the Business Plan.
1.3. THE NAMES OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE PLAN BELONGING TO THE GROUPS INDICATED IN POINT 1.3., LETTERS A), B), C) OF ANNEX 3, DIAGRAM 7, OF THE ISSUERS' REGULATIONS.
At the date of preparation of this Information Document, no information was available on Beneficiaries, other than those indicated in paragraph 1.1., whose name is required pursuant to this paragraph 1.3. .
Information regarding the names of any other Beneficiaries, if they fall within the figures referred to in this paragraph 1.3, will be communicated at a later date, pursuant to Article 84 bis paragraph 5 of the Issuers' Regulations.
1.4. DESCRIPTION AND INDICATION OF THE NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES OF THE PLAN, SEPARATED BY THE CATEGORIES INDICATED IN POINT 1.4, LETTERS A), B), C) AND D) OF ANNEX 3A, DIAGRAM 7, OF THE ISSUERS' REGULATIONS.
The Beneficiaries will be identified as described above.
The detailed information required by paragraph 1.4 of Diagram 7 of Annex 3A to the Issuers' Regulations will be provided by the methods and within the terms set out in Article 84-bis paragraph 5 of the Issuers' Regulations.
The Plan aims to promote and pursue, above all, the following objectives:

The adoption of the Plan also aims to align the interests of the management and those of the shareholders of the Company more closely.
In defining the characteristics and terms of the Plan, the contents and objectives of the Business Plan were taken into account, with the final aim of promoting the sustainable success of the Company and the Group and achieving certain levels of growth and development at the end of the 2026 financial year, as well as the Group's sustainability targets.
The Plan proposed to the Shareholders' Meeting covers the three-year period from 2024 to 2026 and establishes that, for the purposes of the payment of the Bonus, the Allocation of Shares is conditional on the achievement of Performance Targets during the three-year period from 2024 to 2026, based on the forecasts of the Business Plan and on the Group's sustainability targets.
The Plan is one of the instruments used to integrate, through variable elements related to financial and non-financial targets, the monetary component of the remuneration package of strategic resources, in accordance with best market practices and in compliance with the Company's Remuneration Policy.
The Plan sets out the conditions under which a Bonus is paid to the beneficiaries upon full or partial achievement of the Performance Targets, some of which are financial and some of which are non-financial.
The Plan provides for the recognition of financial instruments, consisting of Shares, according to the structure better defined in paragraph 4.1.
With regard to the Share component, the Assignment of Options is envisaged according to the criteria set forth in paragraph 2.3. .
The Assignment Date will ordinarily be by 30 June 2024.
The Allocation of Shares is subject to the achievement of partly financial and partly nonfinancial Performance Targets.
All Performance Targets concern the Group and are benchmarked against the Business Plan forecasts.

The Performance Targets will be measured with regard to the three-year Reference Period from 2024 to 2026.
The Financial Performance Targets, consisting of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted ROI, have an overall weighting of 80% of the Options assigned to each Beneficiary, distributed as follows:
a) Adjusted EBITDA, with a weighting of 45% of the Options assigned to each Beneficiary;
b) Adjusted ROI, with a weighting of 35% of the Options assigned to each Beneficiary.
The non-financial Performance Targets have an overall weighting of 20% of the Options assigned to each Beneficiary and consist of:
The specific Performance Targets will be concretely determined, with regard to the Reference Period, by the Board of Directors, on the basis of the Business Plan and the Group's sustainability targets.
The Board of Directors has the power to change the Performance Targets in the presence of extraordinary and/or unforeseen situations or circumstances that may significantly affect the Group's results and/or scope of activities. Such situations and circumstances include, but are not limited to, mergers, demergers, acquisitions, disposals, extraordinary health or social events.
The Vesting Period is expected to end in the 2027 financial year.
The Allocation Date will follow the approval of the financial statements for the 2026 financial year and within 30 days of such approval. At the same time as the Allocation, the number of Shares to be allocated free of charge to each Beneficiary will be verified and determined on the basis of the achievement of the Performance Targets.
The Allocation of the Shares is not subject to different conditions for the various potential Beneficiaries of the Plan.
There is a Lock-up Period for the Shares, as specified in paragraph 4.5.

The Assignment to the Beneficiaries will be carried out by the Board of Directors in compliance with the maximum number of Options indicated in paragraph 4.4.
In determining the number of Options to be assigned to each Beneficiary, the Board of Directors will take mainly into account the importance of the position held by the Beneficiary, in particular in relation to the targets set out in the Business Plan and the sustainability targets and in accordance with the Remuneration Policy and the payout, if any, envisaged in the latter. The details of the Performance Targets will be communicated to each Beneficiary in the Letter of Assignment, which must be signed by the Beneficiary for acceptance within 10 days of receipt, under penalty of loss of its effectiveness and, therefore, of exclusion of the Beneficiary from participating in the Plan.
The Plan already provides for the Assignment of:
It should be noted that the number of Options assigned to the Chief Executive Officer and CFO was determined by taking into account a potential pay-out of 34% and 29% of the total remuneration, respectively, in accordance with the remuneration policy.
It should also be noted that the Remuneration Policy provides for a number of options to be granted to executives with strategic responsibilities, representing an average pay-out of 27% of total remuneration.
Not applicable in that the Plan is based exclusively on financial instruments issued by the Company.
The preparation of the Plan was not affected by significant tax or accounting evaluations.

Not applicable in that the Plan does not receive any support from the Special fund for the encouragement of employee participation in enterprises, as per Article 4, paragraph 112, of Italian Law no. 350 of 24 December 2003.
On 19 March 2024, the Board of Directors decided to submit the Plan for approval to the Shareholders' Meeting of 8 May 2024.
The same Shareholders' Meeting will also be asked to grant the Board of Directors - with the right to sub-delegate and after obtaining the opinion of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee - all the broadest powers to implement the Plan and, in particular, to:
Decisions regarding the Chief Executive Officer and/or Executives with strategic responsibilities will be taken at the suggestion of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. In the cases envisaged by Article 2389, paragraph 3 of the Italian Civil Code, the opinion of the Board of Statutory Auditors will be obtained.
The subject in charge of managing the Plan is the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors, in exercising the powers granted by the Shareholders' Meeting, may delegate its powers, tasks and responsibilities with regard to the implementation, management and administration of the Plan to its members.

The Board of Directors, also in consideration of events occurred, will have the right to make all the amendments and/or additions to the Plan that are deemed necessary and/or appropriate, in order to keep the objectives of the Plan as unchanged as possible. In particular, this right may be exercised when one or more of the following operations are carried out:
(vi) amendments to laws or regulations that could affect the Options, the Shares, the Plan. In the event of delisting or Change of Control, the Board of Directors may decide to allocate the Shares to the Beneficiaries in advance of the terms of the Plan. In such cases, the Board of Directors may define the procedures and terms for the allocation of the Shares, also by amending the Plan.
The allocated Shares will be made available exclusively using the Company's treasury shares. To this end, the Board of Directors of 19 March 2024 resolved to propose to the Shareholders' Meeting that the Board of Directors be authorised to:
The Plan was prepared by the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, composed of nonexecutive directors, the majority of whom are independent, also in accordance with the express mandate received from the Board of Directors with resolution dated 19 December 2023. In particular, this preparation is the result of a detailed preliminary investigation carried out by the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, which met in subsequent meetings, including those held on 13 February 2024, 5 March 2024 and 15 March 2024.
On 15 March 2024, the Remuneration and Nomination Committee resolved to submit the draft Plan to the Board of Directors.

Finally, the Plan was approved by the Board of Directors at the meeting held on 19 March 2024, with the abstention of the persons already indicated as potential Beneficiaries of the Plan.
At the same meeting of 19 March 2024, the Board of Directors resolved to submit the Plan to the Shareholders' Meeting scheduled for 8 May 2024.
Please see paragraph 3.5. .
The Plan will be submitted to the Shareholders' Meeting for approval on 8 May 2024. Subsequently, the Board of Directors will approve the Regulations and the Assignment in accordance with the terms set out in paragraph 2.2 above.
On 19 March 2024, when the Board of Directors met to define and approve the draft Plan, the official stock market price of the Share was Euro 16.449.
The price of the Shares at the time of the Assignment of the Options will be communicated by the methods and within the terms indicated in Article 84-bis paragraph 5 letter a) of the Issuers' Regulations.
3.9. METHODS ADOPTED BY THE COMPANY WITH REGARD TO THE POSSIBLE COINCIDENCE IN TIME BETWEEN THE DATE OF ASSIGNMENT OF THE SHARES OR ANY DECISIONS TAKEN ON THE MATTER BY THE REMUNERATION AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF RELEVANT INFORMATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 114 PARAGRAPH 1 OF THE TUF
Therefore, owing to the Vesting Period and the existence of an adequate deferral between the Assignment Date and the Allocation Date, any dissemination of inside information at the time of the Assignment would be of no consequence to the Beneficiaries. In fact, the latter cannot carry out any operation on the Shares at the time of Assignment. In this context, it was not necessary to set up any specific control.

In any case, the Company will comply with its market disclosure requirements, where envisaged by the laws and regulations pro tempore in force.
The subject-matter of the Plan is the free assignment to the Beneficiaries of a maximum of 270,000 (two hundred and seventy thousand) Options, each of which entitles them to receive free of charge, under the terms and conditions provided for by the Regulations, 1 Sabaf S.p.A. Share.;
The Plan also provides for the right of the Company - to be exercised by resolution of the Board of Directors, after obtaining the opinion of the Committee - to pay to the beneficiaries, instead of and in lieu of the shares, all or part of a sum of money (the "Replacement Amount") not exceeding 40% (forty per cent) of the shares actually vested and allocated, in the cases provided for in the Plan Regulations. The Replacement Amount will be calculated on the basis of the value of the shares at the official closing price, on the regulated market managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., on the day preceding the date of the resolution to allocate the shares (the "Reference Price"). The calculation will therefore be based on the following formula:
The Plan provides for:

Also in the light of what is set out in paragraphs 2.2. and 4.2. above, the Plan is scheduled to expire in 2027.
The maximum number of Options to be assigned to the Beneficiaries in implementation of the Plan is 270,000 (two hundred and seventy thousand), corresponding to an equal number of Shares.
The free allocation of Shares is subject:
The Options will be assigned to the individual Beneficiaries in relation to the Performance Targets as specified in paragraph 2.2., in accordance with the decisions of the Board of Directors.

The Allocation of the Shares related to a specific Performance Target is not envisaged, not even partially, in case of failure to achieve the Performance Target, based on the detailed rules that will be envisaged by the Regulations, at least equal to the Floor of 80%. If the Floor is reached, each Beneficiary will receive 35% of the Bonus. For each level of achievement of the Performance Targets above the Floor, the percentage of the Allocation of Shares will increase on a straight-line basis until the maximum threshold of 100% Bonus is reached.
Malus and Clawback clauses will be envisaged by the Regulations in certain circumstances determined by the Board of Directors, including at least the following:
The Options are assigned to the Beneficiaries personally and may not be transferred by act inter vivos or subjected to restrictions or be the subject matter of other deeds of disposal for any reason.
In the event of the Allocation and Delivery of Shares, the Plan envisages a Lock-up Period, with reference to a number of Shares equal in total to 40% of those allocated, defined as follows:
During the Lock-up Period, the Shares will be subject to an inalienability restriction, except where derogations are authorised by the Board of Directors.
Not applicable in that the Plan does not contemplate the indicated cases.

Please see paragraph 4.5. .
There are no reasons for the cancellation of the Plan.
No form of redemption of Shares by the Company is envisaged.
4.11. ANY LOANS OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE SHARES
Not applicable.
The expected charge for the Company is represented by the fair value of the Shares serving the Plan, which will be determined on the Allocation Date. Information on the total cost of the Plan will be provided by the methods and within the terms indicated in Article 84-bis paragraph 5 letter a) of the Issuers' Regulations.
Not applicable.
It is noted that the Plan will be implemented, as far as the equity component is concerned, with treasury Shares of the Company already in the portfolio or to be purchased, representing a maximum of approximately 2.13% of the current share capital.
There are no limits to the exercise of voting rights and the allocation of property rights.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.

At the date of this Information Document, the Plan has not yet been approved by the Shareholders' Meeting; the information referred to in Table 1 enclosed with Diagram 7 of Annex 3A of the Issuers' Regulations has not yet been defined.
Such information will be provided, from time to time, pursuant to Article 84-bis paragraph 5 letter a) of the Issuers' Regulations.
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