Remote Working to Continue Temporarily

After an extensive consultation, Rusneftegaz can announce that it is elected to postpone any formal requirement for our staff to return to solely office-based working temporarily. Whilst a significant proportion of administrative employees have heretofore returned to their posts either partially or in full, in many instances this has not been possible for a variety of justifiable reasons. As many will be aware, it was originally intended that our administrative and office-based workers would fully return to their respective workplaces during the summer of this year. However, management regularly audits its coronavirus mitigation strategy every three weeks, and has previously opted to delay a complete end to home working twice at reviews in both June and July. As a result, there is now consensus amongst our board that there are such low prospects of the majority of our staff returning to any kind of office-based work before respiratory virus rates surge with the advent of autumn, that it is no longer necessary to analyze the prospects of a an end to home working at regular intervals. Instead, the management board shall determine when the conditions are pertinent for a return to the policies set forth prior to March 2020, and at such a time a return to regular workstations shall be compulsory and non-negotiable. Moreover, Rusneftegaz can also disclose that it has determined that it does not intend to introduce or enforce any type of vaccination mandate upon our staff unless obliged to do so by law, although in the instance that aforementioned legislation were to take effect in any of the jurisdictions the Group operates in, it would compel any unvaccinated workers to perform their roles remotely where possible. Any instances where this would not be possible shall be managed on a case-by-case basis at the appropriate time. For all those who do not operate in an office-based role, which includes the majority of Rusneftegaz’s employees, management can confirm that all existing protocols and containment measure are to remain and will continue to be reviewed and updated every three weeks as per usual. This includes the ongoing and compulsory FFP3, N99 and or 12.4.191-2011 mask mandate whilst in company buildings and structures, with Rusneftegaz continuing to provide these aforementioned coverings to all our workers at no cost for the foreseeable future. Such stringent regulations have resulted in the Group successfully containing the pandemic, with only a nominal number of cases affiliated with close contact whilst in a work environment on sites controlled by Rusneftegaz.