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www.se.com Schneider Electric Universal Registration Document 2021 332 Chapter 4 – Corporate Governance Report Other benefits Schneider Electric aims to provide an appropriate level of benefits considering market practice and the level of benefits provided for other employees in the Group. The benefits currently provided are described below, but may also include, for example, relocation assistance if required and subject to the Board’s decision. Employer Matching Contributions and Profit-Sharing The Chairman and CEO is eligible for profit-sharing and the employer matching contribution paid to subscribers to the capital increase reserved for employees. He is also eligible for the employer matching contribution paid to subscribers to the collective pension fund (PERCO), for the retirement of employees in France. Company Car The Corporate Officer may use the cars made available to Group Senior Management with or without chauffeur services. In addition, the Chairman and CEO is provided with a company car. Tax assistance The Corporate Officer may benefit from a tax assistance. Health, Life and Disability schemes The Corporate Officer is eligible for: i. The collective welfare plan applicable to employees of Schneider Electric SE and Schneider Electric Industries SAS covering the risks of illness, incapacity, disability, and death; ii. Additional coverage of the Group’s French executives for risks of illness, incapacity, disability, and death. The main features of this coverage are: 1) In case of illness or accident resulting in a temporary stoppage or incapacity (of any category), the Corporate Officer shall be entitled to continue to receive 18 months’ worth of his compensation (fixed and target variable) authorized by the Board, 2) In case of death, the policyholder’s beneficiaries shall be entitled to the compensation (fixed and target variable) authorized by the Board of Directors for the current month, along with a death benefit equal to 6 months of the average compensation authorized by the Board of Directors (monthly average of the fixed and variable compensation paid during the last 12 months of employment); iii. The entitlement to a life annuity pension paid to the surviving spouse in the event of death before his retirement, or if he left the Company after the age of 55 without returning to work, equal to 60% of 25% of the average of compensation paid during the three years before the date of death, with a deduction made from the theoretical pension payment that may be obtained under insurance conditions from the additional payments that will have been made; iv. In the event of disability causing the Corporate Officer to completely stop working, the right to pension payments (payable to the surviving spouse at a rate of 60%) beginning from his retirement equal to 25% of the average of the total cash compensation paid over the three years preceding the date of disability minus 1.25% per quarter of absence so as to obtain a full rate of pension and minus the amount of additional compensation that may be obtained under insurance conditions at the time the disability occurred; v. In the event of an accident, the Group insurance covering the executive’s accident risk, stipulating the payment of a benefit the sum of which may be up to four times the annual compensation based on the type and circumstances of the accident. Eligibility for benefits (ii) through (v) above is conditional on the fulfilment of one of the following conditions: • the average of the net income of the last five fiscal years preceding the event is positive; • the average of the free cash flow of the last five fiscal years preceding the event is positive. Director’s fee The Chairman and CEO has waived the attendance fees to which he is entitled in his capacity of Board member. Extraordinary awards The Compensation policy does not include any provisions for extraordinary payments. The Board decided to maintain the prohibition of one-off payments that are not provided for in the compensation policy approved by the shareholders. 4.2 Compensation Report

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