Organizational structure

Corporate legal structure

NORMA Group SE is the parent company of NORMA Group. The Company is based in Maintal, Germany. NORMA Group SE acts as the legal holding company for the Group. It is responsible for the strategic management of business activities. It is also responsible for Communications, Legal and M&A, Compliance, Risk Management and Internal Auditing.

Group-wide central management responsibilities such as information technology (IT), Treasury, Group Accounting and Group Controlling, for example, are all based at NORMA Group Holding GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of NORMA Group SE, which is also located in Maintal. Three regional management teams based in Auburn Hills (USA), Maintal and Singapore take on specific holding tasks for the three regions EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Americas (North, Central and South America) and Asia-Pacific (East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania).

As of December 31, 2024, NORMA Group SE held direct or indirect interests in 47 companies that belong to NORMA Group and are fully consolidated.

The following changes to the legal structure of the Group were recorded in fiscal year 2024:

1_The figure provides an overview of the operating companies of NORMA Group. The company names correspond to the company names that are used internally. A complete list of all Group companies and NORMA Group’s shareholdings as of December 31, 2024, can be found in the corresponding disclosure in the NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

2_NORMA China is organizationally assigned toNORMA Group Asia Pacific Holding Pte. Ltd. and under company law to NORMA

3_Lifial was renamed NORMA Portugal, Lda. effective October 4, 2024.

4_Kimplas UK is organizationally assigned to NORMA Group Holding GmbH and under company law to NORMA Group Asia-Pacific Holding Pte. Ltd.

5_Teco (USA) is organizationally assigned to NORMA Pennsylvania Inc. and under company law to NORMA Group Holding GmbH.

Group Management

NORMA Group SE has a dual management system consisting of a Management Board and a Supervisory Board.

The Management Board manages the Company under its own responsibility and is advised and monitored by the Supervisory Board. The Management Board members in office in the 2024 fiscal year were Guido Grandi (CEO)¹⁰, Annette Stieve (CFO) and Dr. Daniel Heymann (COO), unchanged from December 31, 2023.

In accordance with the Articles of Association, the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group SE consists of six independent members elected by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board was Mark Wilhelms, the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Erika Schulte CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT. The following changes were made to the composition of the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group SE in fiscal year 2024:

At the Annual General Meeting on May 16, 2024, Miguel Ángel López Borrego, who had been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2021 and served as interim Chairman of the Management Board from January 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023, resigned from the Supervisory Board at his own request. Further information can be found in the SUPERVISORY BOARD REPORT. He was followed by Kerstin Müller-Kirchhofs. In the third quarter of 2024, an application was made for the court appointment of Ms. Müller-Kirchhofs as a new member of the Supervisory Board until the election at the next Annual General Meeting in 2025. Ms. Müller-Kirchhofs holds a degree in economics and is a certified public accountant with several years of experience in the management of industrial companies. Most recently, she was CFO of Gesco SE, a listed holding company with several medium-sized technology companies. Ms. Müller-Kirchhofs is a member and Chairwoman of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group SE. As a result, NORMA Group’s six-member Supervisory Board was once again complete. Further information on Ms. Müller-Kirchhofs’ curriculum vitae and on the Management Board and Supervisory Board of NORMA Group SE can be found in the following section of the website: WWW.NORMAGROUP.COM.

After the end of the 2024 fiscal year, further changes to the composition of the Supervisory Board became necessary following the premature departure of Chairman of the Management Board Guido Grandi, announced on February 17, 2025, and the temporary assumption of the position of Chairman of the Management Board by the previous Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Mark Wilhelms, for a maximum of one year. Ms. Kerstin Müller-Kirchhofs was appointed Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group for the transitional period. Mr. Wilhelms’ Supervisory Board mandate is suspended during his position as Interim Chairman of the Management Board. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

In addition, detailed information on the composition of the Management Board and Supervisory Board and the allocation of responsibilities between them can be found in the CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT. This can be viewed on the website WWW.NORMAGROUP.COM and is also part of this Annual Report. The Corporate Governance Report contains the summary Statement of Corporate Governance required by Section 289f German Commercial Code (HGB) and Section 315d German Commercial Code (HGB), including the Declaration of Conformity pursuant to Section 161 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG), a description of the procedures of the Management Board and Supervisory Board, as well as relevant information on significant corporate governance practices. The declaration on the diversity concept to be disclosed in accordance with the CSR Directive Implementation Act is also a key component of the corporate governance report. The CONSOLIDATED NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT in accordance with Sections

¹⁰    Mr. Guido Grandi resigned from his position on the Management Board and as Chairman of the Management Board at the end of February 17, 2025.

315b and 315c German Commercial Code (HGB) is included in the Combined Management Report of this Annual Report.

Operative segmentation by regions

NORMA Group’s strategy is focused, among other considerations, on regional growth targets. To achieve this, the operating business is managed and controlled in the three regional segments EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Americas (North, Central and South America) and Asia-Pacific (East Asia, South East Asia, Australia and Oceania). All three regions have networked regional and cross-company organizations with different functions. For this reason,the Group’s internal management reporting and control system has a strong regional focus. Regional and local priorities are set in the area of sales service. In the future, the dimension of the global, strategic business units will gain in importance.

Subdivision of business activities

As of December 31, 2024, NORMA Group’s business activities were divided into the three strategic business units Industry Applications, Water Management (both formerly the Standardized Joining Technology (SJT) distribution channel) and Mobility & New Energy (formerly the Engineered Joining Technology (EJT) distribution channel). The EMEA, Americas and Asia-Pacific regions function as the company’s defined reporting segments. Through this matrix organization, NORMA Group offers its global customers in the various end markets a diversified product portfolio. The constant focus on the strategically important areas serves to optimize the focus on the respective specific requirements with a view to the end markets and customers.

1_On November 28, 2024, NORMA Group announced in an ad hoc announcement that the Management Board had decided to initiate a process to sell the global business activities of the strategic business unit Water Management.