Notification of the Payment of Proceeds from Securities

Dear Shareholder,

We would like to inform you that Česká spořitelna, a.s. (hereinafter referred to as "CS") has been entrusted with mediating the payment of dividends for the year 2023 to the shareholders of

Philip Morris ČR a.s.,

with its registered office in Kutná Hora, Vítězná 1, postcode 284 03, identification no. 148 03 534, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, File 627 (hereinafter referred to as the "Company").

By resolution of the General Meeting of the Company adopted on 30 April 2024, the dividend for the year 2023 was approved in the amount of CZK 1,220 per share before tax. The tax will be withheld by the Company and paid to the relevant tax authority in accordance with applicable law. Any person who was a holder of the Company's shares as at 10 May 2024 is entitled to receive dividends.

The dividend payments will be made from 17 June 2024.

The dividend payments will be made by wireless transfer to each relevant shareholder's bank account on the basis of a completed and signed Application for Payment sent (i) by post to Česká spořitelna, a.s., A332 Správa produktů finančních trhů (Financial Markets Product Management), Budějovická 1518/13b, 140 00 Prague 4 or (ii) from the data box of the relevant shareholder(or administrator) set up pursuant to Act No. 300/2008 Coll, on electronic acts and authorized conversion of documents to the data box of Česká spořitelna, a.s.whose identifier is: wx6dkif or (iii) in electronic form to the e-mailaddress of Česká spořitelna, a.s.:vyplatadividend@csas.cz(such application must be accompanied by a qualified electronic signature based on a qualified certificate for electronic signature or a guaranteed electronic signature pursuant to Act No. 297/2016 Coll, on services crating trust for electronic transactions). The Application for Payment and further information on dividend payment can be found on the following website: http://www.philipmorris.cz, in section titled "For Shareholders", "Annual General Shareholders Meeting 2024". Please pay attention to the completion of the relevant Application for Payment, the information on the required documents and the instructions required for the payment of dividends set out in the Application for Payment.

The dividend payments will be made to individuals with their permanent residence address in the Czech Republic also by wireless transfer to each relevant shareholder's bank account held at any financial institution in the Czech Republic on the basis of verification of the shareholder's identity in person at the branches of Česká spořitelna, a.s.,

Starting from June 17, 2024, at 8:00 AM, Česká spořitelna, a.s. will launch an application for online dividend payout via bank identity. This method of dividend payout will be available to shareholders - individuals with permanent residence in the Czech Republicwho meet the following conditions: they are not represented by a Securities Administrator, they are tax residents of the Czech Republic, they own a bank account in the Czech Republic, they have activated verification via Bank iD, and they have identical identification data in both the Central Securities Depository and the verifying bank (i.e., birth number and surname). This verification method can also be used for unclaimed or unpaid profit shares from previous years, provided that the entitlement to payment of such profit shares for previous years still exists, has not been time-barred or has not ceased to exist for any other reason. Shareholders can log into the Česká spořitelna application via the link www.vyplatadividend.cz.

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For further information, please contact the contact persons at Česká spořitelna, a.s. at vyplatadividend@csas.cz: Dpt. A332_01, Ms. Naděžda Šmídová or Mr. Milan Williams, contact phone 956 765 438.

The maturity date of the share in profit has been determined at 17 June 2024. The payout period will be from 17 June 2024 to 31 March 2025.

Profit shares will be paid to the shareholders who are individuals during the set payment period only by wireless money transfer to the shareholders' bank accounts specified in the list of shareholders maintained by the Company, or in the register of book-entered securities in the case of book-entered shares. If the relevant bank account number is not entered in the list of shareholders or in the register of book - entered securities (or the number is not up-to-date), the relevant profit share will be sent to the bank account which the shareholder notifies to the Company through Česká spořitelna, a.s. for this purpose. Profit shares will be paid to the shareholders who are individuals after the shareholders submit all the necessary documents, including a declaration by the actual owner (holder) of the shares and, if a shareholder who is a tax resident of a country other than the Czech Republic requests the application of a special withholding tax rate, also a certificate of tax domicile.

Shareholders who are legal entities will also be paid their profit shares through Česká spořitelna, a.s. in accordance with the rules defined above. Profit shares will be paid to the shareholders who are legal entities only by wireless money transfer to the shareholders' bank accounts specified in the list of shareholders maintained by the Company, or in the register of book- entered securities in the case of book-entered shares. If the relevant bank account number is not entered in the list of shareholders or in the register of book-entered securities (or the number is not up-to-date), the relevant profit share will be

sent to the bank account which the shareholder notifies to the Company through Česká spořitelna, a.s. for this purpose. Shareholders who are legal entities (or legal arrangements) will only be paid their profit shares after fulfilling the statutory conditions for the payment of profit shares (including the registration of the beneficial owner of each particular shareholder who is a legal entity (or legal arrangement) in the Register of Beneficial Owners (hereinafter referred to as the "Czech Beneficial Owner Register") in accordance with Section 53 (2) of the Act on Register of Beneficial Owners, if the shareholder is obliged to arrange for the registration of the beneficial owner or if the provisions of the above Act and the obligation to register the beneficial owner in the Czech Beneficial Owner Register applies to the shareholder), as well as after supplying all other required supporting documents, and, if a shareholder who is a tax resident of a country other than the Czech Republic requests the application of a special withholding tax rate, also a certificate of tax domicile. Česká spořitelna, a.s. will be checking the registrations of beneficial owners in the Czech Beneficial Owner Register, and shareholders who have no beneficial owner registered as at the date of payment of profit shares by Česká spořitelna, a.s. will not be paid their profit shares. If a profit share is not paid to the relevant shareholder (legal arrangement) due to the absence of registration of its beneficial owner in the Czech Beneficial Owner Register by 31 December 2024, the right to that profit share will cease to exist (Sections 53 (2) and (3) of the Act on Register of Beneficial Owners). A shareholder claiming a profit share or its payment within a payment period after 31 December 2024 must demonstrate and prove that its right to a profit share has not ceased to exist due to the absence of registration of its beneficial owner in the Czech Beneficial Owner Register by 31 December 2024. Otherwise, the profit share will not be paid to that shareholder due to the fact that the shareholder's right to that payment has ceased to exist.

In Kutná Hora, on 14 May 2024

Philip Morris ČR a.s.

Philip Morris ČR a.s.

Andrea Gontkovičová, Chairperson of the Board of Directors

Eugenia Panato, Member of the Board of

Directors

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