Press release

Heerlen, NL, 19 December 2022 21:30 CET

Following the Offering Circular published on 22 November 2022, Royal DSM is required to announce transactions relating to the ordinary shares in its capital in accordance with the Dutch public offer rules. This includes the delivery of treasury shares to employees in view of settling the vesting of share units or the exercise of stock options.

Pursuant to commitments entered into prior to issuing the Offering Circular, DSM has on 19 December 2022, delivered 360 ordinary shares to employees in view of (i) the vesting of 175 share units that have been granted subject to the terms of the respective DSM Incentive Plan and (ii) settling the exercise of 185 stock options granted under the respective DSM Incentive Plan (average exercise price €98.86). On the date hereof, the total number of issued and outstanding DSM ordinary shares is 173,073,737. As a consequence of the delivery included herein, the number of outstanding DSM ordinary shares increased by 0.0002%.