Fiscal 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

2.5.4 Report by one of the Statutory Auditors, appointed as independent third party

2.5 Appendices

2.5.4 Report by one of the Statutory Auditors, appointed as independent third party

2.5.4 Report by one of the Statutory Auditors, appointed as independent third party, on the consolidated non-financial statement

This is a free English translation of the Statutory Auditor’s 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 standards applicable in France.

Sodexo S.A.

Head Office: 255 Quai de la Bataille de Stalingrad

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

For the year ended August 31, 2022

To the Annual General Meeting,

In our capacity as Statutory Auditor of your company (hereinafter the “entity”) appointed as independent third party, and accredited by the COFRAC under number 3-1884(1), we have undertaken a limited assurance engagement on the historical financial information (actual or extrapolated) of the consolidated non-financial statement, prepared in accordance with the entity's procedures (hereinafter the "Guidelines"), for the year ended August 31th, 2022 (hereinafter, respectively, the "Information" and the "Statement"), included in the Group's management report pursuant to the requirements of Articles L. 225-102-1, R. 225-105 and R. 225-105-1 of the French Commercial Code (Code de commerce).

At the request of the entity, we conducted works designed to express a reasonable assurance conclusion on the information selected by the entity and identified by the sign √ in the Statement.

Limited assurance conclusion

Based on the procedures performed, as set out in the "Nature and scope of our work" section of this report, and the information collected, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the Statement is not presented in accordance with the applicable regulatory requirements and that the Information, taken as a whole, is not presented fairly in accordance with the Guidelines, in all material respects.

Reasonable assurance conclusion on a selection of non-financial information

Based on the procedures performed, as set out in the "Nature and scope of our work" and "Nature and scope of additional work on the information selected by the entity and identified by the sign √" sections of this report, and the evidences collected, the information selected by the entity and identified with the symbol √ in the Statement has been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the Guidelines.

Preparation of the Statement

The absence of a commonly used generally accepted reporting framework or as established practices on which to draw to evaluate and measure the Information allows for different, but acceptable, measurement techniques that can affect comparability between entities and over time.

Consequently, the Information needs to be read and understood together with the Guidelines, the main elements of which are presented in the Statement or available upon request from the entity's registered office.

Inherent limitations in preparing the Information

The Information may be subject to inherent uncertainty because of incomplete scientific and economic knowledge and the quality of external data used. Some information is sensitive to methodological choices, assumptions and/or estimates used for their preparation and presentation in the Statement.

Responsibility of the entity

The Management Board is responsible for:

  • Selecting or establishing suitable criteria for preparing the Information;
  • Preparing a Statement in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, including a presentation of the business model, a description of the main extra-financial risks, a presentation of policies applied to mitigate these risks and the outcomes of those policies, including key performance indicators, and the information provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (the Taxonomy Regulation);
  • Implementing internal control over information relevant to the preparation of the Information that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

The Statement was prepared by applying the entity's Guidelines as mentioned previously.

(1) Accreditation Cofrac Inspection, number 3-1884, scope available at www.cofrac.fr