A ceremony was held in the auditorium of the Central Sports Centre in Zakopane to sum up the National Cross-Country Skiing Development Programme, of which Grupa Azoty is the Main Partner. This season, it was for the fourth time that the Programme participants competed in the Azoty Group Cup. Awards to the winners in three age categories were presented by Marek Wadowski, Vice President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty S.A.

The Grupa Azoty Group has become a partner of another season of Agrorewolucje, a hugely popular online programme about agriculture. The programme will be hosted by leading Polish YouTubers specialising in the Agro content. All farmers need to do to take part in the casting for its 3rd edition is to complete a questionnaire and shoot a short film about their farms. Entries for Agrorewolucje will be accepted until June 12th 2022.

In the first quarter of 2022, Grupa Azoty faced high and volatile prices of feedstocks, mainly natural gas, phosphate rock, potassium chloride, benzene, phenol, and propylene. Despite the challenging market landscape and feedstock pressure, Grupa Azoty delivered solid financial results by maintaining fertilizer production at levels reflecting maximum available capacity throughout the first quarter of 2022, which also enabled it to fully meet domestic demand.

The meeting participants discussed potential cooperation in precision farming. The purpose of the meeting was to identify areas where Grupa Azoty could supply products and services to support the transformation of Peruvian agriculture. In parallel with talks on precision farming projects, Grupa Azoty is expanding its sales operations in Peru, with a branch of COMPO EXPERT, a Grupa Azoty Group company, soon to open in the country.

Following publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of sanctions imposed on Viatcheslav Kantor on April 8th 2022 and following imposition on April 25th 2022 of national sanctions on Mr Kantor and his related parties: Norica Holding S.à.r.l. of Luxembourg, Opansa Enterprises Limited of Cyprus and Rainbee Holdings Limited of Cyprus, holding in total a 19.82% ownership interest in Grupa Azoty S.A., the Company announces that: Viatcheslav Kantor is not a beneficial owner of the Company within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Viatcheslav Kantor neither owns nor has control over the Company within the meaning of the EU sanctions legislation, including Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.

Further to the news of a sudden halt in Russian gas supplies to Poland, Grupa Azoty announces that the Group companies receive natural gas under a contract with Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. Poland has technical capabilities to source gas from various directions, e.g. through system interconnectors on its western and southern borders and via the LNG terminal in Świnoujście. The mix is supplemented by domestically produced gas and volumes withdrawn from gas storage facilities, where Poland has accumulated substantial stocks.