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COMBINED GENERAL MEETING OF20APRIL 2023 STATUTORY AUDITORS' REPORTS

STATUTORY AUDITORS’ REPORT ON THE ISSUE OF SHARES AND/OR OTHER SECURITIES GIVING ACCESS TO THE SHARE CAPITAL WITH OR WITHOUT PREEMPTIVE SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS (TWENTY‑FIRST, TWENTY‑SECOND, TWENTY‑FOURTH AND TWENTY‑FIFTH RESOLUTIONS)

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Combined General Meeting of 20April 2023 – 21 22 , 24 and 25 resolutions This is a free translation into English of the Statutory Auditors’ 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 auditing standards applicable in France. To the Shareholders, In our capacity as Statutory Auditors of Hermès International, and in accordance with articles L.228‑92 and L.225‑135 et seq. as well as article L.22‑10‑52 of the French Commercial Code ( Code de commerce ), we hereby report to you on the proposed delegations of authority to Executive Management to issue various shares and/or securities, which are submitted to you for approval. Executive Management proposes, under the supervision of the Supervisory Board of the Company and the Management Board of Émile Hermès SAS, Active Partner, and based on its report and the report of the Supervisory Board, that you delegate to it for a period of 26 months, as of this General Meeting, the authority to decide on the following transactions and to set the final terms and conditions of the related issues, and asks that you waive your preferential subscription rights, as necessary: th th issue, with shareholders’ preferential subscription rights (twenty‑first resolution), on one or more occasions, in the proportions and at the times it deems appropriate, both in France and abroad and/or on the international market, either in euros or in any other currency or monetary unit established by reference to several currencies, whether free of charge or in exchange for consideration, new ordinary Company shares and/or securities that are equity securities of the Company carrying rights to other equity securities and/or carrying rights to debt securities of the Company and/or securities representing debt instruments or granting access or likely to grant access to shares to be issued; s issue, with cancellation of shareholders’ preferential subscription rights, by way of a public offering (twenty‑second resolution), on one or more occasions, in the proportions and at the times it deems appropriate, both in France and abroad and/or on the international market, either in euros or in any other currency or monetary unit established by reference to several currencies, whether free of charge or in exchange for consideration, new ordinary Company shares and/or securities carrying rights to other equity securities of the Company shares and/or carrying rights to the allocation of debt securities of the Company and/or securities representing debt instruments granting access or likely to grant access to equity securities to be issued by the Company and/or existing equity securities and/or debt securities: s it being specified that, in accordance with article L.228‑93, paragraph 1 of the French Commercial Code, the securities to be issued may grant access to equity securities to be issued by any company in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, more than half of the share capital, •

The maximum aggregate nominal amount of any immediate or future capital increases carried out immediately or in the future pursuant to the twenty‑first and twenty‑second resolutions is 40% of the share capital as of the date of the General Meeting, 20% pursuant to the twenty‑fourth resolution as of the date of the General Meeting, and 10% pursuant to the twenty‑fifth resolution as of the date of the General Meeting, it being specified that the capital increases carried out in accordance with these delegations shall be deducted from the blanket ceiling provided for in the twenty‑first resolution, corresponding to 40% of the share capital as of the date of the General Meeting for the twenty‑first, twenty‑second, twenty‑third, twenty‑fourth, twenty‑fifth and twenty‑seventh resolutions. The maximum aggregate nominal amount of the debt securities that may be issued pursuant to the twenty‑first, twenty‑second, twenty‑fourth and twenty‑fifth resolutions may not exceed €1 billion, it being specified that any securities issued pursuant to these delegations shall be deducted from the €1 billion blanket ceiling provided for in the twenty‑first resolution for the twenty‑first, issue (twenty‑fifth resolution), on one or more occasions, in the proportions and at the times it deems appropriate, both in France and abroad and/or on the international market, either in euros or in any other currency or monetary unit established by reference to several currencies, ordinary Company shares and/or securities that are equity securities of the Company giving access to other equity securities and/or rights to the allocation of debt securities of the Company and/or securities representing debt instruments granting access or likely to grant access to shares to be issued to compensate contributions in kind to the company. s it being understood that these securities may be issued as consideration for shares contributed to the Company in a public offering with an exchange component for securities meeting the conditions set forth in article L.2210‑54 of the French Commercial Code; • issue, with cancellation of the shareholders’ preferential subscription rights (twenty‑fourth resolution), by way of an offering within the meaning of article L.411‑2, paragraph II of the French Monetary and Financial Code (Code monétaire et financier relating to private placement and within a limit of 20% of the share capital per year, on one or more occasions, in the proportions and at the times it deems appropriate, both in France and abroad and/or on the international market, either in euros or in any other currency or monetary unit established by reference to several currencies, whether free of charge or in exchange for consideration, ordinary Company shares and/or securities that are equity securities of the Company granting access to other equity securities and/or rights to the allocation of debt securities of the Company and/or securities representing to debt instruments granting access or likely to grant access to equity securities to be issued by the Company: s it being specified that, in accordance with article L.228‑93, paragraph 1 of the French Commercial Code, the securities to be issued may grant access to shares to be issued by any company in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, more than half of the share capital; •

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