WHISTLEBLOWING REPORTS

Pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 24 of 10th of March 2023, Nikolaus Bagnara S.p.A. has equipped itself with the prescribed channels for receiving and managing whistleblowing reports.

• Shareholders and persons with functions of administration, management, control, supervision or representation, even when such functions are exercised de facto, at Nikolaus Bagnara S.p.A.;
• Employees, trainees, self-employed workers, freelancers and consultants who work for Nikolaus Bagnara S. p.A.;
• Persons who have held the above-mentioned positions in the past, if information about violations was acquired during the course of the relationship and persons with whom the relationship has not yet arisen - for example, candidates for personnel selection or employees during the probationary period.

The list is very articulate and complex. For completeness, please refer to Legislative Decree 24/20231.

• freephone number: 800 - 231 - 670 (in Italian) / 800 - 294 - 670 (in German). The call is recorded
• mail address elettronica2:bagnara_whistleblowing_at_complegal.itIl the whistleblower also has the right to request a direct meeting with a professional from outside the company, who manages the channel for conferring the report in a confidential interview; it will be sufficient to make the request through one of the two channels indicated above, leaving a contact address.

1 In general, violations of European Union regulations which harm the public interest or the integrity of the Company, of which the whistleblower has become aware in the context of his or her work, consisting of unlawful conduct relevant pursuant to Decree 231/2001 or violations of the 231 Model if adopted; offences falling within the scope of European Union or national acts or national acts implementing European Union acts on public procurement; financial services, products and markets and the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism; product safety and conformity; transport safety; protection of the environment; radiation protection and nuclear safety; food and feed safety and animal health and welfare; public health; consumer protection; protection of privacy and protection of personal data and security of networks and information systems; acts or omissions affecting the financial interests of the European Union referred to in Art. 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; acts or omissions concerning the internal market, as referred to in Article 26(2) T.F.U.E. (including infringements in the field of competition and State aid and those in the field of corporate taxation); acts or behaviour which, while not constituting an offence, frustrate the object or purpose of the provisions of Union acts in the above fields.2 To protect the confidentiality of the Whistleblower, if the Whistleblower does not wish to consent to the disclosure of his or her identity, written reports should be sent from personal, not corporate, email accounts (therefore, reports should not be sent from corporate domain email accounts).