Company: SGBAF
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-000378
Chunk: 280

Company: SES S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 280
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 from Other cost of sales.                                                                |

An amount of EUR 90 million in 2022 has been reclassified from “Other cost of sales” to “Customer support costs”

| 2 | Staff costs of EUR 409 million (2022: EUR 330 million) include gross salaries and employer’s social                                                                                                           
 security payments, payments into pension schemes for employees, charges arising under share-based payment schemes, as well as staff-related restructuring charges of EUR 27 million (2022: EUR 9 million) and 
 C-band repurposing related expenses of EUR 29 million (2022: EUR 12 million). At the year-end the total full-time equivalent number of members of staff was 2,294                                             
 (2022: 2,298).                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| 3 | Other operating expenses of EUR 252 million (2022: EUR 205 million) are, by their nature, less variable                                                                                                      
 with revenue and include office-related and technical facility costs, in-orbit insurance, marketing, general and administrative expenditure, consulting charges, travel-related expenditure and movements in 
 debtor provisions.                                                                                                                                                                                           |

Other operating expenses also include an amount of EUR 16 million (2022: EUR 15 million) of C-bandrepurposing expenses (Note 34), EUR 9 million (2022: EUR 3 million) of costs associated with the development and / or implementation of merger and acquisition activities, and EUR 9 million (2022: nil) in specific business taxes of a non-recurringnature. The 2022 charge included regulatory charges of EUR 5 million arising outside ongoing operations. Note 6—Audit and non-auditfees For 2023 and 2022 the Group recorded charges, billed and accrued, from its independent auditors, and affiliated companies thereof, as set out below:

| € million                                                    |     | 2023 |     |     | 2022 |     |
| Fees for statutory audit of annual and consolidated accounts |     |      | 2.4 |     |      | 2.3 |
| Fees charged for other assurance services                    |     |      | 0.1 |     |      | 0.1 |
| Fees charged for other non-audit services                    |     |      |   — |     |      |   — |
| Total audit and non-audit fees                               |     |      | 2.5 |     |      | 2.4 |

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