Report of the statutory auditor on the consolidated financial statements

To the General Meeting of Vetropack Holding Ltd, Saint-Prex

Zurich, 10 March 2021

As statutory auditor, we have audited the consolidated financial statements of Vetropack Holding Ltd, which comprise the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, statement of change in equity and notes (PDF version: pages 83 to 111 / online version: marked with the label “audited information”), for the year ended 31 December 2020.

Board of Directors’ responsibility. The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with Swiss GAAP FER and the requirements of Swiss law. This responsibility includes designing, implementing and maintaining an internal control system relevant to the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. The Board of Directors is further responsible for selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

Auditor’s responsibility. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Swiss law and Swiss Auditing Standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the consolidated financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers the internal control system relevant to the entity’s preparation of the consolidated financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control system. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 give a true and fair view of the financial position, the results of operations and the cash flows in accordance with Swiss GAAP FER and comply with Swiss law.

Report on key audit matters based on the circular 1/2015 of the Federal Audit Oversight Authority. Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the consolidated financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. For each matter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.

We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor’s responsibility section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements.

Tangible Assets

Area of focus. The balance sheet position “tangible assets” as of 31 December 2020 amounts to MCHF 573.5 (Prior Year: MCHF 559.2) and therefore represents approximately 58% of total assets. More than half of the tangible assets are production facilities, which are exposed to hard industrial operations. This leads to two significant management assessments. Firstly, the management has to assess the moment a machine is ready for use and therefore depreciation can start. Secondly, management has to estimate the useful life and challenge the estimations continuously. Furthermore, events during production could lead to unplanned impairment of machines. These events can have an impact on the consolidated profit as well as the consolidated equity.

Our audit response. We assessed and tested controls regarding design and operational effectiveness of asset purchase respectively recognition and valuation of tangible assets. Besides testing controls we performed substantive procedures where we recalculated the depreciation rates, evaluated the appropriateness of tangible asset lives applied in the calculation of depreciation and searched for indications for impairment. Furthermore, we performed test of details regarding the recognition of tangible assets and assessed the timeliness of the transfer of assets in the course of construction.

Our audit procedures did not lead to any reservations concerning the recognition and measurement of the tangible assets.

Refer to consolidated Balance Sheet on page 83, Valuation Principles on page 90 as well as Note No. 5 on page 94 regarding the financial statement.

Report on other legal requirements. We confirm that we meet the legal requirements on licensing according to the Auditor Oversight Act (AOA) and independence (article 728 CO and article 11 AOA) and that there are no circumstances incompatible with our independence.

In accordance with article 728a para. 1 item 3 CO and Swiss Auditing Standard 890, we confirm that an internal control system exists, which has been designed for the preparation of consolidated financial statements according to the instructions of the Board of Directors.

We recommend that the consolidated financial statements submitted to you be approved.

Ernst & Young Ltd