Continental : Vermerk des unabhängigen Wirtschaftsprüfers über eine betriebswirtschaftliche Prüfung zur Erlangung begrenzter Sicherheit über ausgewählte Nachhaltigkeitsangaben im Integrierten Nachhaltigkeitsbericht

Independent Practitioner's Report on a Limited Assurance Engagement on selected Sustainability Information in the Integrated Sustainability Report 2023 of Continental AG

To Continental AG, Hanover

We have performed a limited assurance engagement on the disclosures on selected sustainability information in the integrated sustainability report of Continental AG, Hanover (hereinafter "the Company"), for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2023 (hereinafter the "Report"). Our engagement in this context relates solely to the following selected sustainability information denoted in green in the report:

• Indirect CO2 emissions (Scope 3) in total and broken down into each of the 15 categories specified by the GHG Protocol, as well as the related qualitative text claims
• Sum of the calculated and reported CO2 emissions Scope 1, Scope 2 (market-based) and Scope 3
• Energy consumption by energy source
• Waste generation by type
• Water demand by source

Hereinafter the "selected sustainability information".

Responsibilities of the Executive Directors

The executive directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation of the selected sustainability information in the Report with reference to the principles stated in the Sustainability Reporting Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (hereinafter the "GRI-Criteria") and for the selection of the disclosures to be evaluated.

This responsibility of Company's executive directors includes the selection and application of appropriate methods of sustainability reporting as well as making assumptions and estimates related to individual sustainability disclosures, which are reasonable in the circumstances. Fur- thermore, the executive directors are responsible for such internal controls as they have considered necessary to enable the preparation of a Report that is free from material misstatement whether due to fraud or error.

Audit Firm's Independence and Quality Management

We have complied with the German professional provisions regarding independence as well as other ethical requirements.

Our audit firm applies the national legal requirements and professional standards - in particular the Professional Code for German Public Auditors and German Chartered Auditors ("Berufssatzung für Wirtschaftsprüfer und vereidigte Buchprüfer": "BS WP/vBP") as well as the Standard on Quality Management 1 published by the Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer (Institute of Public Auditors in Germany; IDW): Requirements to quality management for audit firms (IDW Qualitätsmanagementstandard 1: Anforderungen an das Qualitätsmanagement in der Wirtschaftsprüferpraxis - IDW QMS 1 (09.2022)), which requires the audit firm to design, implement and operate a system of quality management that complies with the applicable legal requirements and professional standards.

Practitioner´s Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express a limited assurance conclusion on the selected sustainability information in the Report based on the assurance engagement we have performed.

Within the scope of our engagement we did not perform an audit on external sources of information or expert opinions, referred to in the Report.

We conducted our assurance engagement in accordance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised): Assurance Engagements other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information, issued by the IAASB. This Standard requires that we plan and perform the assurance engagement to allow us to conclude with limited assurance that nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the selected sustainability information in the Company's Report for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2023 have not been prepared, in all material aspects, with reference to the relevant GRI-Criteria. This does not mean that a separate conclusion is expressed on each disclosure so denoted.

In a limited assurance engagement the assurance procedures are less in extent than for a reasonable assurance engagement and therefore a substantially lower level of assurance is ob- tained. The assurance procedures selected depend on the practitioner's judgment.

Within the scope of our assurance engagement, we performed amongst others the following assurance procedures and further activities:

• Inquiries of personnel involved in the preparation of the Report regarding the preparation process, the internal control system relating to this process and selected disclosures in the Report
• Inspection of processes for collecting, controlling, analyzing and aggregating selected data at specific sites of the Company on a sample basis
• Identification of the likely risks of material misstatement of the Report under consideration of the GRI-Criteria
• Analytical evaluation of selected disclosures in the Report
• Comparison of selected disclosures with corresponding data in the consolidated financial statements and in the group management report
• Evaluation of the presentation of the selected disclosures regarding sustainability perfor- mance

Assurance Conclusion

Based on the assurance procedures performed and assurance evidence obtained, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the selected sustainability information in the Company's Report for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2023 have not been prepared, in all material aspects, with reference to the relevant GRI-Criteria.

Intended Use of the Assurance Report

We issue this report on the basis of the engagement agreed with the Company. The assurance engagement has been performed for purposes of the Company and the report is solely intended to inform the Company as to the results of the assurance engagement. The report is not intended to provide third parties with support in making (financial) decisions. Our responsibility lies solely toward the Company. We do not assume any responsibility towards third parties.

Frankfurt am Main, 22 April 2024

PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH

Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Nicolette Behncke	ppa. Janine Haupenthal
Wirtschaftsprüfer
(German Public Auditor)