The information of the Management Board of Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna
on the selection of an audit firm to carry out the audit of annual separate and consolidated
financial statements for 2024 and the sustainability statement in line with the applicable regulations, including the regulations on the selection and selection procedure of an audit firm
The Management Board of Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna with its registered office in Warsaw, acting pursuant to § 70 section 1 point 7) and § 71 section 1 point 7) of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 29 March 2018 on current and periodic information submitted by issuers of securities and the conditions for recognizing as equivalent information required by the laws of a non-member state in connection with Art. 60 section 2 of the Act of 29 July 2005 on public offering and conditions for introducing financial instruments to organized trading and on public companies, and on the basis of the Statement of the Supervisory Board of Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna of 26 February 2025 on the selection of the audit firm carrying out the audit of the annual Separate Financial Statements of Bank Pekao S.A. for the year ended 31 December 2024 and the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Bank Pekao S.A. Group for the year ended 31 December 2024, informs that the audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Polska spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością Audyt sp.k. with its registered office in Warsaw was selected in accordance with the regulations, including those regarding the selection and selection procedure of an audit firm, and that:
a) the audit firm and members of the audit team met the conditions for preparing an impartial and independent report on the audit of the annual separate and consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable regulations, professional standards and principles of professional ethics,
b) applicable regulations related to the rotation of the audit firm and the key statutory auditor and mandatory grace periods are complied with,
c) The Bank has a policy on the selection of an audit firm and a policy on the provision to the Bank by an audit firm, an entity related to an audit firm or a member of its network of additional non-audit services, including services conditionally exempt from the ban on providing by an audit firm.
Pursuant to the Article 16 of the Act of 6 December 2024 amending the Accounting Act, the Act on Statutory Auditors, Audit Firms and Public Supervision and certain other acts, the Bank selected the same audit firm to attest the sustainability statement of the Bank's Group in the first reporting year.
Management Board of Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna
Date of the information: 26 February 2025