This is a free translation into English of the Statutory Auditors’ report on the certification of sustainability information and verification of the disclosure requirements under Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the Company issued in French and it is provided solely for the convenience of English-speaking users.
This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and the H2A guidelines on “Limited assurance engagement - Certification of sustainability reporting and verification of disclosure requirements set out in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852”.
To the Annual General Meeting of L’Oréal,
This report is issued in our capacity as statutory auditors of L’Oréal. It covers the sustainability information and the information required by Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852, relating to the year ended December 31, 2024 and presented in Chapter 4 “Sustainability Report” of the management report, included in the universal registration document (hereinafter the “Sustainability Report”).
Pursuant to Article L. 233-28-4 of the French Commercial Code, L’Oréal is required to include the above-mentioned information in a separate section of its management report. This information has been prepared in the context of the first-time application of the aforementioned Articles, a context characterized by uncertainties regarding the interpretation of the laws and regulations, the use of significant estimates, the absence of established practices and frameworks in particular for the double-materiality assessment, and an evolving internal control system. This information enables an understanding of the impact of the activity of the Group on sustainability matters, as well as the way in which these matters influence the development of the business of the Group, its performance and position. Sustainability matters include environmental, social and corporate governance matters.
Pursuant to Article L. 821-54 paragraph II of the aforementioned Code, our responsibility is to carry out the procedures necessary to issue a conclusion, expressing limited assurance, on:
This engagement is carried out in compliance with the ethical rules, including independence, and quality control rules prescribed by the French Commercial Code.
It is also governed by the H2A guidelines on Limited assurance engagement - Certification of sustainability reporting and verification of disclosure requirements set out in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
In the three separate sections of the report that follow, we present, for each of the sections of our engagement, the nature of the procedures that we carried out, the conclusions that we drew from these procedures and, in support of these conclusions, the elements to which we paid particular attention and the procedures that we carried out with regard to these elements. We draw your attention to the fact that we do not express a conclusion on any of these elements taken individually, and that the procedures described should be considered in the overall context of the formation of the conclusions issued in respect of each of the three sections of our engagement.
Finally, where deemed necessary to draw your attention to one or more disclosures of sustainability information provided by L’Oréal in its management report, we have included an emphasis of matter(s) paragraph hereafter.
As the purpose of our engagement is to express limited assurance, the nature (choice of techniques), extent (scope) and timing of the procedures are less than those required to obtain reasonable assurance.
Furthermore, this engagement does not provide a guarantee regarding the viability or the quality of the management of L’Oréal, in particular it does not provide an assessment, of the relevance of the choices made by L’Oréal in terms of action plans, targets, policies, scenario analyses and transition plans, which would go beyond compliance with the ESRS reporting requirements.
It does, however, allow us to express conclusions regarding the Entity’s process for determining the sustainability information to be reported, the sustainability information itself, and the information reported pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852, as to the absence of identification or, on the contrary, the identification of errors, omissions or inconsistencies of such importance that they would be likely to influence the decisions that readers of the information subject to this engagement might make.
Any comparative information that would be included in the management report is not covered by our engagement.
