Company: ARBK
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-005344
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Company: Argo Blockchain Plc
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 6-K
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 targets. The Company will keep this under ongoing review.

Future Work

As part of its work during the coming year, the Committee will consider the Company’s present and near future requirements and will review the composition of the Board, succession planning for management, and the structure of the overall management of the Company going forwards. Further announcements will be made in due course.

Matthew Shaw

Chair of the Nomination Committee

8 May 2025

### AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT
Letter from the Chair of the Audit Committee

Dear Shareholders,

I am pleased to present the Audit Committee’s report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The Audit Committee met three times during the financial year under review, and all of the directors on the Committee attended all of these meetings. At a high level, the Audit Committee is responsible for, among other things:

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the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work and termination of any independent auditor engaged for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or performing other audit services;

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pre-approving the audit services and non-audit services to be provided by its independent auditor before the auditor is engaged to render such services;

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evaluating the independent auditor’s qualifications, performance and independence, and presenting its conclusions to the full Board on at least an annual basis;

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reviewing and discussing with the executive officers, the Board and the independent auditor its financial statements and its financial reporting process;

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approving or ratifying any related person transaction (as defined in its related person transaction policy) in accordance with its related person transaction policy;

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reviewing and overseeing the adequacy and effectiveness of its financial reporting and internal control policies and systems; and

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reviewing and recommending amendments to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Composition of the Committee

The Audit Committee is comprised of me, as Chair, Raghav Chopra, and Matt Shaw. Brief biographies of each of the members of the Committee, including their professional experience and qualifications are set out on page 6.

As required by the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTRs), Nasdaq Rule 5605(c)(2)(A)(ii), section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act the Committee comprises:

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a majority of independent directors;

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at least one member with competence in accounting or auditing, or both;

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as a whole, competence relevant to the sector in which the