On 25 April 2024 at 10:00am, the Annual General Meeting of Columbus A/S, CVR no. 13 22 83 45, was held at the Company's address at Lautrupvang 6, 2750 Ballerup.

The Board of Directors had appointed attorney-at-law, Brian Jørgensen, as chairperson of the meeting. The chairperson of the meeting concluded that the Annual General Meeting had been legally convened and was able to transact the business on the agenda.

The chairperson of the meeting concluded that in total 85,326,688 votes and nom. DKK 106,658,360 of the company's share capital, corresponding to 66.00 % of the votes and

66.00 % of the company's share capital, were represented at the general meeting. Of these, 80,094,401 votes were present and 5,232,287 were represented via proxies/postal votes.

Subsequently, the chairperson of the meeting presented the agenda for Annual General Meeting:

  1. The report of the Board of Directors on the activities of the Company in the past year
  2. Presentation and approval of the annual report
  3. Resolution on appropriation of profit or covering of loss as recorded in the adopted annual report
  4. Presentation of and indicative ballot on the remuneration report
  5. Proposal for authorization of the Board of Directors to let the Company pur- chase up to 10 per cent of the Company's share capital
  6. Election of members of the Board of Directors
  7. Election of one or two state authorized public accountants as auditors
  1. Election of state authorized public accountants as auditors
  2. Election of state authorized public accountants as sustainability auditors
  1. Proposals from the Board of Directors or shareholders
  1. Proposal to amend the Articles of Association
  2. Authorization of the chairperson of the meeting
  1. Any other business

The chairperson of the meeting suggested to combine agenda item 1 (The report of the Board of Directors on the activities of the Company in the past year), 2 (Presentation and approval of the annual report) and 3 (Resolution on the appropriation of profit or covering of loss as recorded in the adopted annual report).

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Re 1 - The report of the Board of Directors on the activities of the Company in the past year

Re 2 - Presentation and approval of the annual report

and

Re 3 - Resolution on the appropriation of profit or covering of loss as recorded in the adopted Annual Report

The chairperson of the meeting gave the floor to chairman of the Board of Directors, Ib Kunøe, who reported on the activities of the company in the past year on behalf of the Board Directors. The CEO, Søren Krogh Knudsen, then presented the highlights of 2023. The CFO, Brian Iversen, then presented the Company's income statement for 2023 and the expectations to 2024. The CEO, Søren Krogh Knudsen, then presented the company's new strategic targets, initiatives and operational targets for 2024. The chairperson of the meeting then presented the proposal of the Board of Directors on appropriation of profit.

The chairperson of the meeting concluded that the general meeting had taken note of the report of the Board of Directors. The chairperson of the meeting then concluded that the Company's annual report was approved by the general meeting with 85,326,688 votes for and no votes against. Further, the chairperson of the meeting concluded that the Board of Director's proposal to appropriate the profits in accordance with the annual report, including distribution of ordinary dividends in the amount of DKK 0.125 per share of nominally DKK

1.25 each, equivalent to total dividends in the amount of DKK 16,159,533, was adopted with 85,326,688 votes for and no votes against.

Re 4 - Presentation of and indicative ballot on the remuneration report

The chairperson of the meeting presented the remuneration report.

The presentation did not give rise to any questions or comments and the chairperson of the meeting concluded that the remuneration report was approved with 82,736,243 votes for and 2,590,445 votes against.

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Re 5 - Proposal for authorization of the Board of Directors to purchase up to 10 per cent of the Company's share capital

The chairperson of the meeting presented the proposal to authorize the Company to acquire own shares according to the full wording of proposal in the notice to convene the Annual General Meeting.

The proposal did not give rise to any questions or comments, and the chairperson concluded that the proposal was adopted with 85,320,801 votes for and 5,887 votes against.

Re. 6 - Election of members of the Board of Directors

The chairperson of the meeting presented the proposal for election of members to the Board of Directors.

Each of Ib Kunøe, Sven Madsen, Peter Skov Hansen, Karina Kirk and Per Ove Kogut were re-elected.

Re 7 - Election of one or two state authorized public accountants as auditors

Re 7.1 - Election of state authorized public accountants

The chairperson of the meeting presented the proposal for election of one or two state authorized public accountants as auditors.

Pricewaterhousecoopers Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab, company registration no. 33 77 12 31, was re-elected as the sole auditor of the Company in accordance with the recommendation of the Audit Committee.

Re 7.2 - Election of state authorized public accountants as sustainability auditors

The chairperson of the meeting presented the proposal for election of a sustainability audi- tor.

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Pricewaterhousecoopers Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab, company registration no. 33 77 12 31, was elected as sustainability auditor to provide a statement on the sustainability reporting of the management in accordance with the recommendation of the Audit Com- mittee.

Re 8 - Proposals from the Board of Directors or shareholders

Re 8.1 - Proposal to amend the Articles of Association

The chairperson of the meeting presented the proposal of the Board of Directors to amend article 5.1, 5.2 and 5.8 of the Company's articles of association according to the full wording of the proposal in the notice to convene the Annual General Meeting. The proposal gave rise to a question on whether the company plans to hold annual general meetings wholly electronically (without a physical meeting). The chairman of the Board of Directors, Ib Kunøe, informed that the proposed amendment to article 8.2 is to allow the company the option to hold general meetings wholly electronically and that this option is common in other listed companies. However, the chairman noted that the company currently has no plans to hold annual general meetings wholly electronically. The chairperson of the meeting concluded that the proposal was adopted with 82,725,110 votes for and 2,601,578 votes against.

Re 8.2 - Authorization of the chairperson of the meeting

The general meeting unanimously authorized the chairperson of the meeting (with power of delegation) to file the resolutions with the Danish Business Authority and to make any such changes and amendments to the Company's articles of association or the filing, as may be required by the Danish Business Authority as a condition for registration.

Re 9 - Any other business

The shareholder, Michael West, made a statement and complimented the Management and the Board of Directors, including the company's governance, and expressed a wish for the Company to hold an annual capital markets day to increase awareness of the Company in

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the equity market. The chairman of the Board of Directors, Ib Kunøe, thanked for the statement.

The chairperson of the meeting thanked the shareholders for an orderly Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting was adjourned.

As chairperson of the meeting:

Brian Jørgensen

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