Metrics and Targets in the Area of Pollution

It is important to us to present pollution metrics to illustrate the developments in critical areas and thus promote the responsible management of our impacts, risks and opportunities.

Targets related to pollution [E2-3]

We have not set ourselves measurable, time-dependent, results-oriented targets with regard to our impacts, risks and opportunities in the area of pollution (apart from greenhouse gas emissions). Nor do we currently plan to set such targets, as we constantly seek improvements to minimize the material impacts and risks associated with pollution and waste in accordance with our Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) Management and HSE Key Requirements Policy. The area of health, safety and the environment is highly regulated in many scenarios. All legal and other requirements must be complied with. We therefore do not have any additional targets.

The effectiveness of our policies and actions with regard to the material impacts, risks and opportunities associated with pollution is tracked by our HSE management system. Within this framework, all measures are taken that are needed to achieve our ambition in the areas of health, safety and the environment. As a formalized management system, this helps to ensure that employees are informed about responsibilities and processes to meet legal and regulatory requirements.

Supported by our HSE principles, we undertake to:

• Integrate HSE into business strategies and processes

• Systematically identify, assess and manage HSE risks along the value chain and throughout the entire product life cycle

• Provide resources needed to account for our HSE principles

• Manage our HSE performance and the development of yearly and long-term HSE targets to achieve continuous and sustainable improvement

• Review compliance with internal and external HSE requirements through audits

• Manage HSE matters and their impacts on practices, processes and products to meet stakeholders’ expectations

• Promote awareness of HSE and strengthen trust in our business

• Make every employee aware of their responsibility for HSE and demand commitment

Pollution of air, water and soil due to environmental incidents resulting from emissions according to Regulation [EC] No. 166/2006 and of substances of concern and very high concern according to ESRS [entity-specific disclosures]

Environmental management at our sites comprises the monitoring and reduction of emissions. We comply with the legal thresholds in our normal operations to ensure that emissions of pollutants into the air, water and/or soil represent material negative impacts only in the event of unforeseen environmental incidents. For environmental incidents, we therefore report on emissions of substances listed in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR, please see Annex II of Regulation [EC] No. 166/2006 of the European Parliament and Council) into the air, water and/or soil, and on emissions of substances of concern and very high concern according to ESRS. Classification as a substance of concern is dependent on whether the substance is listed in Annex VI Part 3 of the CLP Regulation (22nd Adaptation to Technical Progress) under one of the hazard classes or hazard categories listed in ESRS. Classification of a substance of very high concern is based on the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) list of candidates that correspond to the criteria pursuant to Article 57 and were identified pursuant to Article 59(1) of the REACH Regulation. Substances of very high concern are, according to ESRS, a subgroup of substances of concern according to ESRS and are therefore included in the reported quantities of substances of concern according to ESRS. We report the emissions volumes of substances whose emitted volumes lie above the threshold values of the E-PRTR or the concentration thresholds of the CLP Regulation. We define environmental incidents as all transport and plant incidents that have occurred at one of our sites worldwide in the current reporting period and have been entered into a central reporting platform by the HSE officers of the respective site. These environmental incidents are reviewed by a central expert in collaboration with site experts to determine potential emissions.

In the measurement of emissions from environmental incidents, we adhere to the corresponding international standards and guidelines. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) has published its Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response, which contain globally valid guidelines to help authorities and industry prevent chemical incidents and mitigate the adverse effects of incidents. These guidelines comprise measures to prioritize prevention, preparedness and the response to chemical incidents, as well as to identify the associated hazards and risks. The method for determining emission volumes depends on the respective environmental incident. Whenever possible, we use direct measurement procedures (e.g. through detection methods for volatile organic compounds, particle counters or soil samples). However, we frequently rely on estimates (e.g. based on the composition of the emitted substance), particularly in the case of transport incidents.

In 2025, we recorded no environmental incidents at our plants that led to the emission of substances into the air, water and/or soil that are listed in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and whose emitted volumes lay above the threshold values of the E-PRTR.

In connection with transport incidents, we recorded environmental incidents in 2025 that led to the emission of substances of concern and/or substances of very high concern according to ESRS into the soil, whose concentrations lay above the threshold values of the CLP Regulation. The reported emissions values are based on the conservative assumption that 10% of the total cargo volume remained in the environment despite proper decontamination of the accident sites.

Substances of concern and of very high concern according to ESRS [E2-5]

The quantities of substances of concern and substances of very high concern according to ESRS that are procured and sold as products or product components are based on a data model that combines data from the areas of environment, health and safety with transaction data from procurement and finance and augments it with external regulatory information (Regulation [EC] No. 1272/2008 [CLP Regulation] and Regulation [EC] No. 1907/2006 [REACH Regulation]). Classification as a substance of concern is dependent on whether the substance is listed in Annex VI Part 3 of the CLP Regulation (22nd Adaptation to Technical Progress) under one of the hazard classes or hazard categories listed in ESRS. Classification of a substance of very high concern is based on the list of substance candidates published by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) that correspond to the criteria pursuant to Article 57 and were identified pursuant to Article 59(1) of the REACH Regulation. On this basis, we have defined two groups of hazard classes that reflect the substances’ hazard potential:

• Class A (hazard classes that correspond to the SVHC properties): Carcinogenicity cat. 1; germ cell mutagenicity cat. 1; reproductive toxicity cat. 1; endocrine disruption (human health); endocrine disruption (environment); persistent, mobile and toxic substances (PMTs); very persistent and very mobile substances (vPvMs); persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances (PBTs); very persistent and very bioaccumulative substances (vPvBs).

• Class B (other hazard classes): Carcinogenicity cat. 2; germ cell mutagenicity cat. 2; reproductive toxicity cat. 2; airway sensitization cat. 1; skin sensitization cat. 1; chronic aquatic toxicity cat. 1 through 4; hazardous to the ozone layer; specific target organ toxicity (repeated exposure) cat. 1 and 2 (STOT RE cat. 1 and 2), specific target organ toxicity (single exposure) cat. 1 and 2 (STOT SE cat. 1 and 2).

We report on substances of concern and of very high concern according to ESRS as indicated in the respective safety data sheets whose concentrations are above the concentration threshold values of the CLP Regulation. Substances of very high concern according to ESRS are a subgroup of substances of concern according to ESRS and are therefore included in the reported quantities of substances of concern according to ESRS. All internal data is extracted directly from our enterprise resource system. Medical devices from the area of radiology are not included in the current figures because of insufficient data.

The procured quantity of substances of concern and substances of very high concern according to ESRS regularly exceeds the quantities we sell as products or components of products. This is attributable in particular to our production processes (e.g. through chemical conversions).