To PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach
We have performed a limited assurance engagement on the Separate Non-Financial Group Report of PUMA SE (hereinafter: “the Company”) in accordance with Section 315b German Commercial Code (HGB), which was combined with the Non-Financial Report of the parent company, PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach, in accordance with Section 289b German Commercial Code (HGB) for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2019 (hereinafter: “Combined Non-Financial Report”). This Combined Non-Financial Report consists of the chapter “Sustainability” and the section "Culture" in the chapter "Our People" of the Annual Report of PUMA SE. The section “EP&L Impact” in the chapter “Sustainability” as well as references to the Annual Report, the Company's website and external websites were not part of our engagement.
The legal representatives of PUMA SE are responsible for the preparation of the Combined Non-Financial Report in accordance with Sections 315b, 315c German Commercial Code (HGB) in connection with Sections 289c to 289e German Commercial Code (HGB).
In preparing the Combined Non-Financial Report, the legal representatives used the Sustainability Reporting Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) with the option “Core” and have indicated these within the Combined Non-Financial Report.
This responsibility of the Company’s legal representatives includes the selection and application of appropriate methods for preparing the Combined Non-Financial Report as well as making assumptions and estimates related to individual non-financial disclosures, which are reasonable in the circumstances. In addition, the legal representatives are responsible for such internal control they have determined necessary to enable the preparation of the Combined Non-Financial Report that is free from material misstatements, whether intentional or unintentional.
The accuracy and completeness of the environmental data in the Combined Non-Financial Report are inherently subject to limits that result from the manner in which data is collected and calculated and assumptions made.
Our responsibility is to express a limited assurance conclusion on the Combined Non-Financial Report, based on the assurance engagement we have performed.
We are independent of the Company in accordance with the provisions under German commercial law and professional requirements, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements.
Our audit company applies the German national legal requirements and the German profession’s pronouncements for quality control, in particular the by-laws governing the rights and duties of public auditors and chartered accountants (Berufssatzung für Wirtschaftsprüfer und vereidigte Buchprüfer) as well as the IDW Standard on Quality Control 1: Requirements for Quality Control in Audit Firms [IDW Qualitätssicherungsstandard 1: Anforderungen an die Qualitätssicherung in der Wirtschaftsprüferpraxis (IDW QS 1)], which comply with the International Standard on Quality Control 1 (ISQC 1) issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB).
We conducted our assurance engagement in compliance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised): “Assurance Engagements other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information” issued by the IAASB. This standard requires that we plan and perform the assurance engagement in a form that enables us to conclude with limited assurance that nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the information disclosed in the Combined Non-Financial Report has not complied, in all material respects, with Sections 315b, 315c in connection with Sections 289c to 289e German Commercial Code (HGB). In a limited assurance engagement the assurance procedures are less in extent than for a reasonable assurance engagement and, therefore, a substantially lower level of assurance is obtained. The assurance procedures selected depend on the practitioner’s professional judgment.
Within the scope of our limited assurance engagement, which was performed from November 2019 to April 2020, we conducted, amongst others, the following audit procedures and other activities:
Based on the assurance work performed and evidence obtained, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the information disclosed in the Combined Non-Financial Report of the Company, for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2019 has not complied, in all material aspects, with Sections 315b, 315c German Commercial Code (HGB) in connection with Sections 289c to 289e German Commercial Code (HGB).
The audit opinion only refers to the chapter “Sustainability” and the section "Culture" in the chapter "Our People" of the Annual Report of PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach. Our opinion does not refer to section “EP&L Impact” in the chapter “Sustainability” as well as references to the Annual Report, the Company's website and external websites.
We issue this report on the basis of the engagement agreed with PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach. The limited assurance engagement has been performed for purposes of PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach, and the report is solely intended to inform PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach, on the results of the assurance engagement.
The report is not intended to provide third parties with support in making (financial) decisions. Our responsibility exclusively refers to PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach, and is also restricted under the engagement agreed with PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach, on November 20, 2019 as well as in accordance with the “General engagement terms for Wirtschaftsprüfer and Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaften (German public auditors and German public audit firms)” from January 1, 2017 of the Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. We do not assume any responsibility to third parties.
München/Germany, April 17, 2020
Deloitte GmbH
Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
(Dr. Thomas Reitmayr)
Wirtschaftsprüfer
(ppa. Thomas Krick)
Director
1 We have performed a limited assurance engagement on the German version of the Combined Non-Financial Report and issued an independent audit report in German language, which is authoritative. The following text is a convenience translation of the independent auditor’s report.
