Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
Chunk: 386

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Chunk 386
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| % of votes cast by members present at the meeting or represented with specific instructions over total votes in the financial year |     | 98.87 |    |

C.1.27 Indicate whether the company´s consolidated and individual financial statements are certified before they are submitted to the board for their formulation.

Yes þ No o

Identify, where applicable, the person(s) who certified the company’s individual and consolidated financial statements prior to their formulation by the board:

| Name                         |     | Position                       |
| José Francisco Doncel Razola |     | Group Chief Accounting Officer |

C.1.29 Is the secretary of the board also a director?

Yes o No þ

If the secretary of the board is not a director fill in the following table:

| Name or corporate name of the secretary |     | Representative |
| Jaime Pérez Renovales                   |     | N/A            |

C.1.31 Indicate whether the company has changed its external audit firm during the financial year. If so, identify the incoming audit firm and the outgoing audit firm:

Yes o No þ

Annual report 2024 359

| Contents |     | Business model and strategy |     | Sustainability statement |     | Corporate governance |     | Economic and financial review |     | Riskmanagement and compliance |

C.1.32 Indicate whether the audit firm performs non-audit work for the company and/or its group. If so, state the amount of fees paid for such work and express this amount as a percentage they represent of all fees invoiced to the company and/or its group.

Yes þ No o

|                                                         |     |       | Company |     |        | Group companies |     |        | Total |
| Amount of non-audit work (EUR thousand)                 |     | 9,301 |         |     | 12,339 |                 |     | 21,640 |       |
| Amount of non-audit work as a % of amount of audit work |     | 34.43 |         |     |  15.47 |                 |     |  20.26 |       |

C.1.33 Indicate whether the audit report on the previous year’s financial statements contains a qualified opinion or reservations. Indicate the reasons given by the Chair of the audit committee to the shareholders in the general shareholders meeting to explain the content and scope of those qualified opinion or reservations.

Yes o No þ

C.1.34