Hermès // 2021 Universal Registration Document

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COMBINED GENERAL MEETING OF 20 APRIL 2022 EXPLANATORY STATEMENTS AND DRAFT RESOLUTIONS

THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH RESOLUTIONS: RE-ELECTION OF SUPERVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Explanatory statement The terms of office of four members of the Supervisory Board (Mr Charles-Éric Bauer, Mss Estelle Brachlianoff, Julie Guerrand and Dominique Senequier) expire at the end of this meeting. In the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth resolutions, the Active partner proposes that you renew, for the three year period as set out in the Articles of Association, the mandates of these members of the Supervisory Board. These four terms of office would thus expire at the end of the General Meeting called in 2025 to approve the financial statements for the financial year ending 31 December 2024. Mr Charles-Éric Bauer has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 3 June 2008. He brings to the Board his in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of Hermès. His expertise in banking and finance, and the commitment with which he carries out his duties and participates in the Audit and Risk Committee enable him to make an effective contribution to the quality of the discussions and work of the Board in all of its areas of responsibility. Ms Estelle Brachlianoff has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 4 June 2019. Her experience as a high-level manager in a group with an international dimension, steering structures undergoing transformation, as well as her expertise in CSR and the commitment with which she carries out her duties and participates in the Audit and Risk Committee and the CAG-CSR Committee enable her to make an effective contribution to the quality of the discussions and work of the Board in all of its areas of responsibility. She also brings her dynamism, intellectual agility and the special care she gives to the quality of human relations in organisations. Ms Julie Guerrand has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2 June 2005. She brings to the Board her in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of Hermès. Her experience in the fields of finance and M&A, as well as her legal expertise and the commitment with which she carries out her duties enable her to contribute actively to the quality of the discussions and work of the Board in all of its areas of responsibility. Ms Dominique Senequier has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 4 June 2013. She brings to the Board her expertise in the field of finance and private equity, as well as her understanding of global macroeconomic and geopolitical issues. Her grasp of corporate governance, her international dimension acquired in China, the United States, the Middle East and emerging countries, and the commitment with which she carries out her duties and directs the work of the CAG-CSR Committee enable her to make an effective contribution to the quality of the discussions and work of the Board in all of its areas of responsibility.

Cumulative attendance over the last three years (2019-2021) of their term of office

Audit and Risk Committee

CAG-CSR Committee

Supervisory Board

Mr Charles-Éric Bauer Ms Estelle Brachlianoff

100.00% 85.00% 100.00% 78.26%

100.00% 100.00%

n/a

73.33%

Ms Julie Guerrand

n/a n/a

n/a

Ms Dominique Senequier

100.00%

n/a: not applicable

Information concerning the persons whose re-election is submitted for your approval is provided in the 2021 universal registration document (chapter 3 “Corporate governance”, § 3.4.8.8, § 3.4.8.9, § 3.4.8.11 and § 3.4.8.1.). These reappointments proposed by the CAG-CSR Committee – which since 2011 has been tasked with making recommendations to the Supervisory Board regarding changes in the composition of the Board – are fully in line with the diversity policy applied within the Supervisory Board and revised in 2020, which is described in detail in the 2021 universal registration document (chapter 3 “Corporate governance”, § 3.4.3). The Supervisory Board has set itself objectives or principles in terms of optimal Board size, age limit, number of independent members and diversity (representation of women and men, nationalities, international experience, expertise, etc.), and has gradually changed the composition of the Board to achieve this. These proposed reappointments submitted to the vote of the General Meeting meet these objectives and principles, in particular by enabling a variety of skills and experience to be retained, covering each of the areas of expertise corresponding to the main operational issues facing the Hermès Group and the core subjects that the Supervisory Board and its committees are required to oversee as part of their duties. They also respond to the Board’s desire to maintain a composition that takes into account the specific nature of the Maison Hermès.

488 2021 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL