Responsibilities of the Board and Management for the Sustainability Report The Board of Directors and Group Executive Management are responsible for the preparation of the Sustainability Report in accordance with the applicable criteria, as explained in the GRI Index published on Nordea’s website www.nordea.com, and are the parts of the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (published by The Global Reporting Initiative, GRI) which are applicable to the Sustainability Report, as well as the accounting and calculation principles that the Company has developed.