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Independent Assurance Report

This document is an English translation of the Finnish language original report.

We have been engaged by the Management of Hansel (0988084-1) (hereafter the “Hansel”) to provide limited assurance on selected corporate responsibility indicators presented in Hansel’s Annual Report 2023 (hereafter “Corporate Responsibility Information”) for the year ended 31 Dec 2023.

Management’s/Board of Directors’ responsibilities

The Management/Board of Directors of Hansel is responsible for the preparation and presentation of the Corporate Responsibility Information in accordance with the reporting criteria, i.e. the Company’s reporting guidelines and GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards. The Management is also responsible for determining Hansel’s objectives with regard to sustainable development performance and reporting, including the identification of stakeholders and material issues, and for establishing and maintaining appropriate performance management and internal control systems from which the reported performance information is derived.

Our responsibilities

Our responsibility is to carry out a limited assurance engagement and to express a conclusion based on the work performed. We conducted our assurance engagement on the Corporate Responsibility Information in accordance with International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised), Assurance Engagements other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information, issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board IAASB. That Standard requires that we plan and perform the engagement to obtain limited assurance about whether the Corporate Responsibility Information is free from material misstatement. The nature, timing and extent of the assurance procedures selected depend on professional judgement, including the assessment of material misstatement due to irregularity or error. We believe that the evidence we obtain is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our conclusion on limited assurance.

We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements applicable in Finland to the engagement we have undertaken and have fulfilled our other ethical obligations under those requirements.

KPMG Oy Ab applies International Standard on Quality Management ISQM 1, which requires the firm to design, implement and operate a system of quality management including policies or procedures regarding compliance with ethical requirements, professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Procedures performed

A limited assurance engagement on Corporate Responsibility Information consists of making inquiries, primarily of persons responsible for the preparation of information presented in the Corporate Responsibility Information, and applying analytical and other evidence gathering procedures, as appropriate. In the engagement, we have performed the following procedures, among others:

  • Interviewed the members of Hansel’s senior management and relevant staff responsible for providing the Corporate Responsibility Information;
  • Assessed the application of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards reporting principles in the presentation of the Corporate Responsibility Information;
  • Assessed data management processes, information systems and working methods used to gather and consolidate the Corporate Responsibility Information;
  • Reviewed the presented Corporate Responsibility Information and assessed its quality and reporting boundary definitions;
  • Assessed the Corporate Responsibility Information’s data accuracy and completeness through a review of the original documents and systems on a sample basis

The procedures performed in a limited assurance engagement vary in nature and timing from, and are less in extent than for, a reasonable assurance engagement. Consequently, the level of assurance obtained in a limited assurance engagement is substantially lower than the assurance that would have been obtained had a reasonable assurance engagement been performed.

Inherent limitations

Inherent limitations exist in all assurance engagements due to the selective testing of the information being examined. Therefore fraud, error or non-compliance may occur and not be detected. Additionally, non-financial data may be subject to more inherent limitations than financial data, given both its nature and the methods used for determining, calculating and estimating such data.

Conclusion

Our conclusion has been formed on the basis of, and is subject to, the matters outlined in this report.

We believe that the evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our conclusions.

Based on the procedures performed and the evidence obtained, as described above, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the Corporate Sustainability Information subject to the limited assurance engagement is not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with company’s reporting guidelines and the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.

Helsinki, 25 March 2024
KPMG Oy Ab

Mikko Luoma
Senior Manager, KHT, JHT

Harri Leppiniemi
Partner, CIA, Advisory

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