Legal basis: Other regulations
Subject: Candidacy of Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek for the Supervisory Board of VRG S.A.
VRG S.A. with its registered office in Kraków (the "Company") hereby notifies that on 18 June 2025, Nationale-Nederlanden Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A. representing the shareholder Nationale-Nederlanden Otwarty Fundusz Emerytalny with its registered office in Warsaw informed the Company that in connection with the elections to the Supervisory Board to be held at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company convened for 25 June 2025, it wishes to nominate Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek for an independent member of the Supervisory Board of the Company. According to the submitted declarations, Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek agreed to run for and be appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Company, and further declared that he meets the criteria set for independent members of the Supervisory Board. The professional experience and professionalism of Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek allow us to state that he is a candidate who can bring a lot of value to the Company, guaranteeing the proper performance of the duties of an independent member of the Supervisory Board.
According to the submitted declaration, Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek has full legal capacity, there are no statutory premises in relation to him that would prevent him from being appointed and performing the function of a member of the Supervisory Board in the Company, in particular the premises specified in Article 18 of the Commercial Companies Code and Article 387 of the Commercial Companies Code, he does not participate in a company competing with the Company's activities as a partner in a civil law partnership, a partnership or as a member of the body of a capital company or in another competitive legal person as a member of its body, and he is not listed in the Register of Insolvent Debtors and there are no other known obstacles to his candidacy for the Supervisory Board of the Company.
Furthermore, according to the submitted declaration, Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek meets the independence criteria specified in Annex II to the Recommendation of the European Commission of 15 February 2005 on the role of non-executive directors or members of the supervisory board of listed companies and the committees of the board. Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek also meets the independence criteria in accordance with the requirements specified in Article 129 sec. 3 of the Act of 11 May 2017 on auditors, audit firms and public supervision.
At the same time, the Company presents a biographical note of Mr. Piotr Kaczmarek.