Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 139

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 8
Chunk 139
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, which is pending judgment. However, if the unfavorable ruling is upheld, the granted injunction presents little to no risk to us.

Additionally, 50 individuals filed lawsuits against us, claiming individual damages due to alleged consequences of the dredging operations. All motions for preliminary injunctions by these individuals were rejected by the Judge and upheld by the State Court of Appeals.

In August 2023 and 2024, the Company was involved in two lawsuits filed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office with practically identical objectives seeking the suspension and subsequent revocation of our licenses and authorizations related to activities allegedly impacting traditional communities in southern Bahia.

We contend that this action lacks merit. The areas in question have been operated by us and our predecessors since the 1980s, with all operations authorized through environmental licenses. There are no demarcated traditional territories in the direct influence area of our activities in southern Bahia, and we do not operate in demarcated indigenous territories.

In both lawsuits, the injunctions requested by the plaintiff were rejected by both the Judge, and State of Bahia Court of Appeals, who found the alleged facts and claims more likely to be unsubstantiated than truthful, and due to the absence of risk to justify an urgent order.

We restate our compliance with the rights of native and traditional peoples, in line with our guidelines for relations with this public, and maintain a series of social and environmental programs within our environmental license procedures that benefit indigenous and traditional peoples in our area of influence.

Civil Matters

There are tree class actions (ação civil pública) filed by the Federal Public Prosecution Office claiming (i) a preliminary injunction to prohibit Company’s trucks from transporting wood in federal highways above legal weight restrictions, (ii) the increase in fines and penalties for overweight in cargo, (iii) the compensation for damages caused to federal highways, to the environment and the economic order, and, also (iv) moral damages. Only one of such claims was ruled against the Company, while the remaining cases were decided in favor. Appeals have been filed against these Lower Court decisions. These Appeals are currently suspended by a decision rendered, in 2021, by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) regarding the same matter. In December 2024, the case was ruled by STJ declaring the possibility to be applied cumulative fines, inhibitory measures and, also, civil liability for damages caused by the carriers. As the STJ has not indicated any criteria for these fines neither indemnification, the amount (fines and indemnification) of