AKKA Technologies : TECH – Statutory auditor’s report on the financial statements of TECHNOLOGIES SE

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Independent auditor's report to the general meeting of AKKA TECHNOLOGIES SE for the year ended 31 December 2020

As required by law and the Company's articles of association, we report to you as statutory auditor of AKKA TECHNOLOGIES SE (the "Company") . This report includes our opinion on the balance sheet as at 31 December 2020, the income statement for the year ended 31 December 2020 and the disclosures (all elements together the "Annual Accounts") as well as our report on other legal and regulatory requirements. These two reports are considered one report and are inseparable.

We have been appointed as statutory auditor by the shareholders' meeting of 3 May 2018, in accordance with the proposition by the Board of Directors following recommendation of the Audit Committee. Our mandate expires at the shareholders' meeting that will deliberate on the Annual Accounts for the year ending 31 December 2020. We performed the statutory audit of the Annual Accounts of the Company during 3 consecutive years.

Report on the audit of the Annual Accounts

Unqualified opinion

We have audited the Annual Accounts of AKKA TECHNOLOGIES SE, that comprise of the balance sheet on 31 December 2020, the income statement of the year and the disclosures, which show a balance sheet total of € 1.299.845.951 and of which the income statement shows a loss for the year of € 45.357.492.

In our opinion, the Annual Accounts give a true and fair view of the Company's net equity and financial position as at 31 December 2020, and of its results for the year then ended, prepared in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium.

Basis for the unqualified opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing ("ISAs"). Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the "Our responsibilities for the audit of the Annual Accounts" section of our report.

We have complied with all ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Annual Accounts in Belgium, including those with respect to independence.

We have obtained from the Board of Directors and the officials of the Company the explanations and information necessary for the performance of our audit and we believe that the audit evidence we

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have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Key audit matters

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the Annual Accounts of the current reporting period.

These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the Annual Accounts as a whole and in forming our opinion thereon, and consequently we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.

Impairment of participating interests Description of the key audit matter

The participating interests as shown in the financial fixed assets amount to € 613.833 thousands in the balance sheet as at

31 December 2020, or about 47% of the total balance sheet. These participating interests are valued at their acquisition value and impairment losses are recognized in case of durable impairment justified by the situation, profitability or perspectives of the companies in which participating interests are held. The appreciation of the durable character requires the use of judgment by management in its choice of elements to consider, that may include historical elements (equity value) or prospective elements.

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We considered that the evaluation of participating interests is a key audit matter because of their importance in the Annual Accounts of the Company and the judgment necessary to the assessment of the assumptions used by the Company to conclude on the need for impairment charges on the participating interests.

Summary of the procedures performed

• We analysed the compliance of methodologies retained by Management for the evaluation of participating interests with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium.
• We compared the book value of the participating interests in the Annual Accounts with the respective equities of the underlying companies.
• We have discussed the performance of the underlying companies and their future prospects as included in the 5-year plan with management.
• We tested each of the key assumptions used in the evaluation models and involved our internal valuation specialists. These key assumptions concern the weighted average cost of capital, growth rate and cash flow forecasts.
• We read the minutes of the Board of Directors and governing bodies of the Company and held regular meetings with management in order to identify indicators of a possible impairment.
• We concluded on the appropriateness of absence of impairments.
• We have verified the appropriateness and completeness of information included in the Annual Accounts in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium.

Responsibilities of the Board of Directors for the preparation of the Annual Accounts

The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the Annual Accounts that give a true and fair view in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium and for such internal controls relevant to the preparation of the Annual Accounts that are free from

material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

As part of the preparation of Annual Accounts, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, and provide, if applicable, information on matters impacting going concern, The Board of Directors should prepare the financial statements using the going concern basis of accounting, unless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease business operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our responsibilities for the audit of the Annual Accounts

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance whether the Annual Accounts are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to express an opinion on these Annual Accounts based on our audit. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with the ISAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and 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 Annual Accounts.

In performing our audit, we comply with the legal, regulatory and normative framework that applies to the audit of the Annual Accounts in Belgium.

However, a statutory audit does not provide assurance about the future viability of the Company , nor about the efficiency or effectiveness with which the board of directors has taken or will undertake the Company's business operations. Our responsibilities with regards to the going concern assumption used by the board of directors are described below.

As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs, we exercise professional judgment and we maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also perform the following tasks:

• identification and assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Annual Accounts, whether due to fraud or error, the planning and execution of audit procedures to respond to these risks and obtain audit evidence which is sufficient and appropriate

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Audit report dated 30 April 2021 on the Annual Accounts of AKKA TECHNOLOGIES SE as of and for the year ended 31 December 2020 (continued)

to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting material misstatements resulting from fraud is higher than when such misstatements result from errors, since fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control;

• obtaining insight in the system of internal controls that are relevant for the audit and with the objective to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control;
• evaluating the selected and applied accounting policies, and evaluating the reasonability of the accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the Board of Directors as well as the underlying information given by the Board of Directors;
• conclude on the appropriateness of the Board of Directors' use of the going-concern basis of accounting, and based on the audit evidence obtained, whether or not a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the Annual Accounts or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our

opinion. Our conclusions are based on audit evidence obtained up to the date of the auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going-concern;

• evaluating the overall presentation, structure and content of the Annual Accounts, and evaluating whether the Annual Accounts reflect a true and fair view of the underlying transactions and events.

We communicate with the Audit Committee within the Board of Directors 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 provide the Audit Committee within the Board of Directors with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

From the matters communicated with the Audit Committee within the Board of Directors, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the Annual Accounts of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our report, unless the law or regulations prohibit this.

Report on other legal and regulatory requirements

Responsibilities of the Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the Board of Directors' report on the Annual Accounts, the non-financial information attached to the Board of Directors' report, the compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements regarding bookkeeping, as well as compliance with the Code of companies and associations and with the Company's articles of association.

Responsibilities of the statutory auditor

In the context of our mandate and in accordance with the additional standard to the ISAs applicable in Belgium, it is our responsibility to verify, in all material respects, the Board of Directors' report on the Annual Accounts, the non-financial information attached to the Board of Directors' report, the compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements regarding bookkeeping, as well as compliance with the Code of companies and associations and with the Company's articles of association, as well as to report on these matters.

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Audit report dated 30 April 2021 on the Annual Accounts of AKKA TECHNOLOGIES SE as of and for the year ended 31 December 2020 (continued)

Aspects relating to Board of Directors' report

In our opinion, after carrying out specific procedures on the Board of Directors' report, the Board of Directors' report is consistent with the Annual Accounts and has been prepared in accordance with articles 3:5 and 3:6 of the Code of companies and associations.

In the context of our audit of the Annual Accounts, we are also responsible to consider whether, based on the information that we became aware of during the performance of our audit, the Board of Directors' report contain any material inconsistencies or contains information that is inaccurate or otherwise misleading. In light of the work performed, there are no material inconsistencies to be reported.

The non-financial information required by article 3:6, § 4, of the Code of companies and associations has been included in the Board of Directors' report on the Annual Accounts. The Company has prepared this non-financial information based on Global Reporting Initiative. However, we do not comment on whether this non-financial information has been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative.

Aspects relating to the social balance sheet

The social balance sheet, to be published in accordance with article 3:12, § 1, 8° of the Code of companies and associations, includes both in form and in substance the required information as prescribed by the Code of companies and associations and does not contain any material inconsistencies compared to the information we have in our audit files.

The fees related to additional services which are compatible with the audit of the Annual Accounts as referred to in article 3:65 of the Code of companies and associations were duly itemized and valued in the notes to the Annual Accounts.

Other communications

• Without prejudice to certain formal aspects of minor importance, the accounting records were maintained in accordance with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium.
• The appropriation of the results proposed to the general meeting complies with the relevant requirements of the law and the Company's articles of association.
• There are no transactions undertaken or decisions taken in breach of the articles of association or of the Code of companies and associations that we have to report to you.
• We have reviewed the proprietary consequences for the Company of the decision on the conflict of interest as described in the decisions of the board of directors and in the Board of Directors' report on the Annual Accounts.
• This audit report is in line with the content of our additional report to the audit committee as required by article 11 of the EU regulation n°537/2014.

Diegem, 30 April 2021

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Statutory auditor

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Independence matters

Our audit firm and our network have not performed any services that are not compatible with the statutory audit of the Annual Accounts and have remained independent of the Company during the course of our mandate.

Eric Van Hoof * Partner

*Acting on behalf of a BV/SRL

21EVH0165

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