Hermès // 2021 Universal Registration Document

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REASONABLE ASSURANCE REPORT BY ONE OF THE STATUTORY AUDITORS ON A SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION

REASONABLE ASSURANCE REPORT BY ONE OF THE STATUTORY 2.10 AUDITORS ON A SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION PUBLISHED IN THE MANAGEMENT REPORT OF HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL

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For the year ended 31 December 2021

This is a free translation into English of the Statutory Auditor’s report issued in French and is provided solely for the convenience of English speaking readers. This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and professional standards applicable in France.

To the Shareholders, Further to your request and in our capacity as Statutory Auditor of Hermès International, we have performed the review described below for the purpose of expressing reasonable assurance on a selection of social and environmental indicators published in the 2021 management report. The environmental and social information selected by Hermès International is as follows: Total workforce and breakdown s Number of dismissals s

Number of training hours s Absenteeism rate in France s Work accidents, Frequency rate, Severity Rate s Number of occupational illnesses s Total water consumption of industrial sites and farms s Gas consumption of industrial sites and farms s Electricity consumption of industrial sites and farms s Fuel consumption of industrial sites and farms s Renewable energy consumption of industrial sites and farms s Total energy consumption of industrial sites and farms s Change in the overall tonnage of industrial waste s

Weight of ordinary industrial waste (OIW) of industrial sites and farms s Weight of hazardous industrial weight (HIW) of industrial sites and farms s Scope 1 and scope 2 carbon emissions of industrial sites and farms s Scope 3 carbon emissions s The information was prepared under the responsibility of the Industrial Affairs Department, the Human Resources Department and the Sustainable Development Department in accordance with the Company’s procedures, which are available on request from the Company’s head office. Our role is to form a reasonable assurance conclusion on the selected information, based on our work. The following conclusions relate to the selected information and not to all CSR information contained in the management report.

NATURE AND SCOPE OF OUR WORK

We performed our work in accordance with the professional standards applicable in France to such engagements, as well as with ISAE 3000 – Assurance engagements other than audits or reviews of historical financial information .

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