Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0000891478-25-000057
Chunk: 180

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 6-K
Chunk 180
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 human rights or international human rights law, and those that require special attention from an environmental, social

252 2024 Pillar 3 Disclosures Report

| Index |     | Introduction |     | Capital |     | Risks |     | Risk taker's remunerations |     | Appendices |

and climate change perspective. This policy is a substitute to the previous energy, mining and metals, and soft commodities policies.

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#### Policy on donations
The purpose of this policy is to set out the criteria that regulate the treatment of donations as well as the process for making donations (proposal, assessment, decision, control and monitoring) that the Grupo Santander considers making for social purposes.

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#### Principles of responsible behaviour for suppliers
This document establishes the minimum principles of ethical, social and environmental conduct that Banco Santander expects from all its suppliers; these are aligned with the ten principles of the Global Compact.

#### 10.2.2. Governance
Responsibilities of the management body for setting the risk framework, supervising and managing the implementation of the objectives, strategy and policies in the context of social risk management

This section covers the requirement on qualitative information on social risk, specifically, the point on governance, for questions (d), (e) and (f)

#### Board of directors
It consist of 15 members, of which 13 are non-executive directors and 2 are executive directors. The majority are independent directors (66.67 of the total members of the council).

Likewise, the board of directors shall ensure that the procedures to select members guarantee the individual and collective expertise of directors, encourage diversity in terms of gender, age, geographical origin, experience and knowledge, and do not carry any implicit bias that could lead to any form of discrimination on grounds such as disability, race or ethnic origin. The board currently has a balanced presence of both genders (women - men) with a diversity ratio of 67. 18 In terms of geographical origin/international experience, 60 of the directors come from continental Europe, 60 from the US/UK, 13 from Latin America, and 7 from other regions. The Board also has extensive international experience, mainly in the markets where we operate (European market, the US and the UK markets, and Latin American markets). The board also has the skills and experience to monitor materiality issues (e.g. on issues related to sustainability, human resources, culture, talent and remuneration, as well as to business conduct and risk management