Granting compensation to the Issuer's subsidiary based on the Act on the compensation system for energy-intensive sectors and subsectors

Management Board of Arctic Paper S.A. ("Company", "Issuer") informs that on October 29th, 2025 it received information about granting the subsidiary Arctic Paper Kostrzyn S.A. public aid for the transfer of the costs of purchasing emission allowances to the prices of electricity used to produce products in energy-intensive sectors or subsectors for year 2024 ("Compensation") in the total amount of PLN 39.5 million.

The Issuer estimates that the amount of the granted Compensation will have a significant impact on the results achieved by Arctic Paper Kostrzyn S.A. in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Specific legal basis:

Art. 17 sec. 1 of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC.

This disclosure contains information that Arctic Paper is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person, on 29-10-2025 07:58 CET.

Further information provided by:

Michał Jarczyński, President of the Management Board of Arctic Paper, tel. (+48) 73 033 98 17

This information is disclosed pursuant to the Article 17 Section 1 of the Market Abuse Regulation - inside information and was submitted for publication on 29th of October 2025 at 7:58 am CET, in reference to Arctic Paper’s current report no. 17/2025 filed with the Warsaw Stock Exchange