GEA : Community Engagement Policy

Community Engagement Policy

Doc ID:	PPC-1292
Version:	1
Last Review:	10June2022
Date:	10June2022
Last Amendment:	10June2022
Accountable Manager:	Chief Sustainability Officer
Owner:	Chief Sustainability Officer
Scope:	All companies and employees of GEA Group
Distribution:	GEA Intranet and e-mails

Content

1.	Preamble	3
2.	Scope		4
3.	Purposes and Types of Community Engagement	4
4.	Conditions	4
	4.1.	General Conditions	4
	4.2.	Conditions for Donations	5
	4.3. Conditions for skill-based volunteering	5
5.	Data Collection for Annual Reporting	5
6.	Further Information and Contact	5

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1. Preamble

As a multinational company and important local employer, GEA can and wants to contribute to a better world. GEA positively motivates its affiliated companies and their employees to engage in the community, and endorses their active commitment. We strive to generate sustainable added value for socially relevant topics through our expertise and core skills.

To embody the company's purpose "Engineering for a better world", GEA has set itself the following goals:

• To pass on our sector and function-specific knowledge to a total of 100,000 people by 2026.
• To donate one percent of GEA's net-profit annually.

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2. Scope

This policy applies worldwide to all employees of GEA Group and its companies. This includes GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft and all companies affiliated with it under German company law (hereinafter referred to as "GEA").

3. Purposes and Types of Community Engagement

We promote community engagement in the following areas:

• Critical disaster relief and extraordinary events

• 1. For example, financial aid for natural disasters, humanitarian crises
• Promoting education, especially in IT, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
• 1. For example, sharing knowledge at schools and universities, support for all kinds of equal opportunities
• Combating child poverty
• 1. For example, financial support for recreational facilities that offer a hot lunch, help with homework and offer one-to-one support for children
• Pushing for access to clean water, renewable energy or medical care
• 1. For example, contributions in kind by providing decanters for water treatment, financial aid to research institutes for renewable energies or NGOs with a focus on the supply of pharmaceuticals, supporting a water project by providing maintenance services for the water

treatment system

Community engagement can be stimulated as follows:

• Donations from GEA o Financial aid
  o Contributions in kind o Services
• Skill-basedvolunteering by employees

1. Paid leave in the form of one working day per year per employee

4. Conditions

Any form of social engagement is subject to local laws, reporting obligations and taxation. To meet these requirements, type-specific conditions also apply (see sections 4.2 - 4.3) in addition to the general conditions (see section 4.1).

4.1. General Conditions

• All applicable legal provisions must be observed.
• Financial aid given in the name of community engagement must be cashless donations only. Cash payments are prohibited.
• Internal guidelines must be observed, in particular the provisions of the Compliance Handbook and internal authorization and approval reservations (in particular internal procedure on community engagement).
• Community engagement is prohibited for the following stakeholders:

1. Politicians, political parties and associated organizations o For-profit organizations
   o Organizations that discriminate against people on the basis of race, belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, origin or other

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• The act of community engagement must always be made directly to the beneficiary and not through third parties.

4.2. Conditions for Donations

The term "donation" refers to donations given to support social, cultural, scientific or other particularly worthy charitable causes, made without contractual obligation and without expectation of services in return. Donations can be made under the following conditions:

• Financial support and contributions in kind must be acknowledged in writing by the recipient of the financial support or contributions in kind. The amount of money or materials received, the name of the recipient and the purpose of the donation must be included and explained in detail.
• Services are subject to formal hiring processes - e.g. by way of a written contract - as well as measurable success criteria.
• Donations must be in line with GEA's corporate purpose, "Engineering for a better world".
• Donations must be correctly and carefully documented and properly logged through financial accounting.

4.3. Conditions for skill-based volunteering

• Leave for voluntary work must be agreed in advance with the line manager and formally requested.
• Once the voluntary work has been completed, the type of voluntary work, the recipient and the number

of people reached must be documented.

Further information on this process is available on the GEA Intranet.

5. Data Collection for Annual Reporting

The following data is collected for reporting purposes:

• Donated sum and the equivalent of the donated goods and services in the four subject areas
• Number of employees who have engaged through knowledge-based volunteer work
• Number of hours off for employees
• Number of people reached through skill-based volunteering

GEA conducts surveys at regular intervals to track the impact of volunteer work, both on the employees themselves and the people reached by the voluntary work.

6. Further Information and Contact

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact:

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft

Sustainability (G-S)

Peter-Müller-Str. 12

40468 Düsseldorf

E-mail:[e-mail]

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