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425 Life Is On | Schneider Electric www.se.com Chapter 6 – Parent Company Financial Statements Financial Statements 6. Our response As part of our audit, we analyzed the procedures implemented by your Company to determine the value in use of investments in subsidiaries and affiliates. Our work consisted in: • comparing the shares in the subsidiaries’ and affiliates’ net assets, when used as a proxy for their value in use, with their underlying accounting data, which were subject to an audit or to analytical procedures; • assessing the appropriateness of the valuation method used to determine the value in use when based on forecasts; • assessing the reasonableness of key assumptions used to estimate values in use, mainly the long-term growth rate and the discount rate, with the assistance of our experts, when needed; • verifying the arithmetical accuracy of the computations performed by your Company. We also assessed the recoverability of advances to subsidiaries and affiliates, based on the impairment tests results of the corresponding investments. Specific verifications We have also performed, in accordance with professional standards applicable in France, the specific verifications required by French law and regulations. Information provided in the management report and in the other documents with respect to the financial position and the financial statements provided to the Shareholders We have no matters to report as to the fair presentation and the consistency with the financial statements of the information given in the Board of Directors’ management report and in the other documents with respect to the financial position and the financial statements provided to the Shareholders. In accordance with French law, we report to you that the information relating to payment times referred to in Article D. 441-6 of the French Commercial Code ( code de commerce ) is fairly presented and consistent with the financial statements. Information relating to corporate governance We attest that the Board of Directors’ section of the management report devoted to corporate governance sets out the information required by Articles L.225-37-4, L.22-10-10 et L.22-10-9 of the French Commercial Code ( code de commerce ). Concerning the information given in accordance with the requirements of Article L. 22-10-9 of the French Commercial Code ( code de commerce ) relating to remunerations and benefits received by or allocated to the directors and any other commitments made in their favor, we have verified its consistency with the financial statements, or with the underlying information used to prepare these financial statements and, where applicable, with the information obtained by your Company from controlled companies which are part of its consolidation perimeter. Based on this work, we attest the accuracy and fair presentation of this information. With respect to the information relating to items that your company considered likely to have an impact in the event of a takeover or exchange offer, provided pursuant to Article L. 22-10-11 of the French Commercial Code (code de commerce), we have verified their compliance with the source documents communicated to us. Based on our work, we have no observation to make on this information. Other information In accordance with French law, we have verified that the required information concerning the identity of the shareholders and holders of the voting rights has been properly disclosed in the management report. Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements Format of presentation of the financial statements intended to be included in the annual financial report We have also verified, in accordance with the professional standard applicable in France relating to the procedures performed by the statutory auditor relating to the annual and consolidated financial statements presented in the European single electronic format, that the presentation of the financial statements intended to be included in the annual financial report mentioned in Article L. 451-1-2, I of the French Monetary and Financial Code ( code monétaire et financier ), prepared under the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer, complies with the single electronic format defined in the European Delegated Regulation No 2019/815 of 17 December 2018. Based on the work we have performed, we conclude that the presentation of the financial statements intended to be included in the annual financial report complies, in all material respects, with the European single electronic format. We have no responsibility to verify that the financial statements that will ultimately be included by your company in the annual financial report filed with the AMF are in agreement with those on which we have performed our work. Appointment of the Statutory Auditors We were appointed as statutory auditors of Schneider Electric S.E. by the Annual General Meetings held on May 6, 2004 for MAZARS and on June 25, 1992 for ERNST & YOUNG et Autres. As at December 31, 2021, MAZARS was in the eighteenth year of its engagement without interruption and ERNST & YOUNG et Autres in the thirtieth year.

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