The Audit and Risk Management Committee is established as a committee of the Board of Directors (“Board”). The primary objectives of the Audit and Risk Management Committee are to:

1. provide assistance to the Board in fulfilling its statutory and fiduciary responsibilities relating to corporate accounting, financial reporting practices, system of risk management and internal control, the audit processes of the Group, and in monitoring the Group’s management of business/financial risk processes and accounting and financial reporting practices;
2. determine that the Group has adequate administrative, operational and internal accounting controls and that the Group is operating in accordance with its prescribed procedures, codes of conduct and applicable legal and regulatory requirements;
3. serve as an independent and objective party in the review of the financial information presented by management for distribution to shareholders and the general public;
4. ensure that the Company’s financial statements complies with applicable financial reporting standards;
5. provide direction, counsel and oversight over the internal audit function and the external auditors to enhance their independence from management;
6. provide assistance to the Board in setting and overseeing the Risk Management Framework of the Group and regularly assessing such Risk Management Framework to ascertain its adequacy and effectiveness; and
7. provide assistance to the Board to meet its oversight responsibilities in relation to the Company’s sustainability policies and practices.