Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
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Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
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#### OTHER SUSTAINABILITY INFORMATION
1. Our progress in relation to UN (United Nations) Global Compact Principles

Santander has been a participant of the UN Global Compact since 2022. We express our support for and disclose our progress on compliance with the 10 Principles of the UN Global Compact on human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption through the Sustainability Statement included in this Annual Report.

| Human rights |

Principle 1 Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.

| For more details, see sections2.5.2. Governance & policies,4.2.1. Conduct standards, and4.4.1. Acting responsibly towards suppliers |

We aim to act responsibly and broadly throughout our value chain by upholding the protection of human rights. We achieve this aim by focusing on our business conduct, internal regulations and governance, and other prevention, mitigation and remediation mechanisms.

Principle 2 Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

| For more details, see sections1.4.2.