Deutsche Bank Introduction Non-Financial Report 2022 Materiality assessment Materiality assessment GRI 2-12, 3-1/3 The Non-Financial Report discloses material non-financial information for Deutsche Bank and its stakeholders, determined through the bank’s materiality assessment. The assessment, which is based on GRI standards, considers external stakeholder expectations and internal perception of the business relevance of non-financial topics. To ensure that the bank’s reporting conforms with the German Commercial Code, Deutsche Bank supplements its assessment by prioritizing topics based on its relevance to understand the bank’s current or future development, financial position, performance, or cash flows in accordance with Section 315c (2) HGB. The materiality assessment performed in 2021 served as the basis for the material topics in this Non-Financial Report. In 2022, Deutsche Bank focused on reviewing its materiality process and the approach of incorporating impacts of the bank’s business activities and operations more specifically. This was agreed upon by the bank’s ESG Disclosures Steering Group. The steering group is composed of experts from: Finance, Investor Relations, Risk, Communications and Chief Sustainability Office. As of year end 2022, Deutsche Bank did not identify any business activities, relationships, products, or services that would be associated with potentially significant risks that were very likely to have or will in future have a severe negative impact on the material non-financial topics. 9