Arctic Paper Group Annual Report 2015 together with independent auditor's opinion.

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Arctic Paper S.A (STO:ARP):

Management Board of Arctic Paper S.A. herewith publishes the Annual Report for Arctic Paper Group for 2015.

Selected consolidated financial data

* Items of the income and cash flow statement are converted at the exchange rate which is the arithmetic mean of average rates announced by the NBP in the given reporting period.

** Items of balance sheet and book value per share were converted at the average exchange rate announced by the NBP and prevailing at the balance sheet date.

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ OPINION

To the Shareholders’ Meeting and the Supervisory Board of Arctic Paper S.A.

1. We have audited the attached consolidated financial statements of Arctic Paper S.A. Group (‘the Group’), for which the holding company is Arctic Paper S.A. (‘the Company‘) located in Poznan at Dabrowskiego 334A, for the year ended 31 December 2015, the consolidated balance sheet as at 31 December 2015, the consolidated income statement, the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, the consolidated statement of changes in equity, the consolidated statement of cash flow for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 and the summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes (‘the attached consolidated financial statements’).

2. The truth and fairness[1] of the attached consolidated financial statements, the preparation of the attached consolidated financial statements in accordance with the required applicable accounting policies and the proper maintenance of the consolidation documentation are the responsibility of the Company’s Management Board. In addition, the Company’s Management Board and Members of the Supervisory Board are required to ensure that the attached consolidated financial statements and the Directors’ Report meet the requirements of the Accounting Act dated 29 September 1994 (Journal of Laws 2013.330 with subsequent amendments – ‘the Accounting Act’). Our responsibility was to audit the attached consolidated financial statements and to express an opinion on whether, based on our audit, these financial statements comply, in all material respects, with the required applicable accounting policies and whether they truly and fairly[2] reflect, in all material respects, the financial position and results of the operations of the Group.

3. We conducted our audit of the attached consolidated financial statements in accordance with:

· chapter 7 of the Accounting Act;

· National Auditing Standards issued by the National Council of Statutory Auditors;

in order to obtain reasonable assurance whether these financial statements are free of material misstatement. In particular, the audit included examining, to a large extent on a test basis, documentation supporting the amounts and disclosures in the attached consolidated financial statements. The audit also included assessing the accounting principles adopted and used and significant estimates made by the Company’s Management Board, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the attached consolidated financial statements. We believe our audit has provided a reasonable basis to express our opinion on the attached consolidated financial statements treated as a whole.

4. In our opinion, the attached consolidated financial statements, in all material respects:

· present truly and fairly all information material for the assessment of the results of the Group’s operations for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015, as well as its financial position[3] as at 31 December 2015;

· have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU;

· are in respect of the form and content, in accordance with the legal regulations governing the preparation of financial statements.

5. We have read the ‘Directors’ Report for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 and the rules of preparation of annual statements’ (‘the Directors’ Report’) and concluded that the information derived from the attached consolidated financial statements reconciles with these financial statements. The information included in the Directors’ Report corresponds with the relevant regulations of art. 49 para 2 of the Accounting Act and the Decree of the Minister of Finance dated 19 February 2009 on current and periodic information published by issuers of securities and conditions for recognition as equivalent the information required by laws of non-EU member states (Journal of Laws 2014.133 with subsequent amendments).

[1] Translation of the following expression in Polish: ‘rzetelnosc i jasnosc’

[2] Translation of the following expression in Polish: ‘rzetelne i jasne’

[3] Translation of the following expression in Polish: ‘sytuacja majatkowa i finansowa’

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