Francisco J. Riberas Mera Executive Chairman “We are handling this uncertainty with a short-term perspective, while never losing sight of our unavoidable commitment to the long term, relying on the dedication of the Gestamp team that are demonstrating their integrity and solidarity during these unprecedented times.” This year, the presentation of our Sustainability Report and the review of all the activities we carried out in 2019 is set against the extraordinary backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis that is having a serious impact on so-ciety around the world. In 2019, Gestamp continued to perform numerous ac-tivities, all geared towards furthering our forward-loo-king project. In this regard, we opened four new plants: in Mexico (San Luis Potosí), Slovakia (Nitra), Morocco (Kenitra) and the United States (Chelsea). The Group also concluded its first sustainable financing line (RCF) in February, in step with the firm progress of the new trend towards growth in sustainable financing projects. This year, at our Chattanooga plant in the United States, we were also delighted to host Bill Gates, who was drawn to our WBL (Work Based Learning) programme. This programme focuses on giving opportunities to young people at risk of social exclusion, enabling them to con-tinue studying while they work part-time at our plants. But, beyond these examples and other progress we made in 2019, all of which is outlined in this report, at this difficult time we need to reflect on COVID-19. This crisis is severely affecting healthcare and human life, and we are also starting to see the economic and social repercussions it will have. It is still too early to know what the effects will be at every level, but it is now clear that the impact of COVID-19 will be present in our lives for several years to come. At Gestamp, we are aware of this uncertainty and we are handling it with a short-term perspective, while ne-ver losing sight of our unavoidable commitment to the long term. As we have done at other complicated ti-mes in our past, we are going to fight to come out of this stronger, remaining true to our usual values and philosophy. Because of our strong presence in China, we realised how serious the situation was early enough to react and swiftly apply the lessons learnt elsewhere. Our operations in China have now recovered virtually to fo-recast levels for 2020 and we expect our other plants around the world to gradually do the same. At difficult times like these, organisations are put to the test and at Gestamp we are working with specific measures to deal with the crisis and its repercussions, always within the framework of our principles. We rely on our team of professionals, who are the key to our success and have risen to the challenge of the cir-cumstances with their commitment and efforts. Here, I would like to thank the team of more than 43,000 peo-ple who are part of Gestamp for their work and dedi-cation, for demonstrating their integrity and solidarity during these unprecedented times. Like always, we are working hand in hand with our cus-tomers, the heart of our business, thus rising to the challenge of adapting to their needs and requirements anywhere around the world according to the circum-stances at any given time. We continue bolstering our production processes to achieve better performance, efficiency, effectiveness and quality. This will help us keep the Group’s level of operational excellence up and will give us differential value on the market. Notwithstanding our strategy and action plans for tac-kling the COVID-19 crisis we are in the midst of now, the Group is not going to lose sight of its focus on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). On this matter, there are no shortcuts or exceptions, and we continue working towards excellence in this regard, bolstering our active commitments to diverse initiatives in Spain and abroad in order to achieve a better world and future. We have ambitious challenges ahead, within an increa-singly complex global setting featuring significant obs-tacles in terms of sustainability that affect industry as a whole and the automotive industry in particular. We need to work together on every front, as we are clear-ly seeing during this crisis. The Principles of the Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals pro-moted by the United Nations are now more impor-tant than ever. At Gestamp, we will keep on striving, doing everything we can to meet these principles and goals. Francisco J. Riberas MeraExecutive ChairmanGestamp Automoción S.A.