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3. Cautionary Notes

Cautionary Notes Regarding Forward Looking Statements

Certain of the statements made and information provided in this Report are forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Often, these forward-looking statements and forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words such as ‘plans’, ‘expects’, ‘is expected’, ‘budget’, ‘continue’, ‘projected’, ‘scheduled’, ‘estimates’, ‘forecasts’, ‘intends’, ‘anticipates’, or ‘believes’ or the negatives thereof or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘might’ or ‘will’ be taken, occur or be achieved.

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Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements or information with respect to the duration, extent and other implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and any restrictions and suspensions with respect to our operations, capital resources and business objectives, our guidance and outlook, including expected production, cost guidance and recoveries of gold, establishing sustainability and environmental targets, goals and strategies, including related to GHG emissions, and the ability to meet the same, implementing the SIMS, meeting diversity and safety goals, benefits of improvements at its mines, our planned capital and exploration expenditures, conversion of mineral resources to mineral reserves, our expectation as to our future financial and operating performance, including expectations around generating significant free cash flow, expected metallurgical recoveries, gold price outlook and the gold concentrate market and our strategy, plans and goals, including our proposed exploration, development, construction, permitting and operating plans and priorities and related timelines and schedules.

Forward-looking information is based on a number of assumptions, that management considers reasonable, however, if such assumptions prove to be inaccurate, then actual results, activities, performance or achievements may be materially different from those described in the forward-looking information. These assumptions include assumptions concerning how the world-wide economic and social impact of COVID-19 is managed and the duration and extent of the COVID-19 pandemic; the geopolitical, economic, permitting and legal climate that we operate in; the future price of gold and other commodities; exchange rates; anticipated costs and expenses; production and metallurgical recoveries; mineral reserves and resources; and the impact of acquisitions, dispositions, suspensions or delays in our business. In addition, except where otherwise stated, we have assumed a continuation of existing business operations on substantially the same basis as exists at the time of this Report.

Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual results, activities, performance or achievements to be materially different from those described in the forward-looking information. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the duration and effects of COVID-19, and any other pandemics on our operations and workforce, and the effects on global economies and society; geopolitical and economic climate (global and local), mineral tenure and permits; inability to meet sustainability, environmental, diversity or safety targets, goals and strategies; gold and other commodity price volatility; recoveries of gold and other metals; results of test work; revised guidance; mining operational and development risk; discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical testing and recoveries; additional funding requirements; currency fluctuations; speculative nature of gold exploration; competition; loss of key employees; and defective title to mineral claims or properties, as well as those risk factors discussed in the sections titled ‘ForwardLooking Statements’ and ‘Risk factors in our business’ in the Eldorado Gold’s most recent Annual Information Form & Form 40-F. The reader is directed to carefully review the detailed risk discussion in the most recent Annual Information Form filed on SEDAR under Eldorado Gold’s name for a fuller understanding of the risks and uncertainties that affect business and operations.

Forward-looking statements and information is designed to help readers understand management’s current views of near and longer term prospects, and it may not be appropriate for other purposes. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information contained herein. Except as required by law, we do not expect to update forward-looking statements and information continually as conditions change.

Cautionary Note Regarding Scientific and Technical Information

There are material differences between the standards and terms used for reporting mineral reserves and resources in Canada, and in the United States pursuant to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Industry Guide 7. While the terms mineral resource, measured mineral resource, indicated mineral resource and inferred mineral resource are defined by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and the CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves adopted by the CIM Council, and must be disclosed according to Canadian securities regulations; however, these terms are not defined under Industry Guide 7 and have historically not been permitted to be used in reports and registration statements filed with the SEC pursuant to Industry Guide 7.

Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.

Under the securities regulations adopted by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), estimates of inferred mineral resources generally cannot be used as the basis of feasibility or prefeasibility studies. Information about mineral deposits may not be comparable to similar information made public by US domestic mining companies, who prepare their disclosure in accordance with Industry Guide 7. Except as otherwise noted, Paul Skayman, FAusIMM, consultant to Eldorado Gold’s Chief Operating Officer, is the ‘Qualified Person’ under NI 43-101 responsible for preparing or supervising the preparation of, or approving the scientific or technical information contained in this Report for all properties.

For a summary of the material scientific and technical information regarding material mineral properties described in this Report, readers should refer to the following technical reports, each of which is available under Eldorado Gold’s name on SEDAR and EDGAR: • Technical Report titled ‘Technical Report, Olympias

Mine, Greece’, with an effective date of December 31, 2019. The report was prepared by the following Qualified Persons as defined by NI 43-101: David Sutherland,

P.Eng., Ertan Uludag, P. Geo., Colm Keogh, P. Eng., Paul

Skayman, FAusIMM, and Sean McKinley, P.Geo. • Technical Report titled ‘Technical Report, Skouries

Project, Greece’ with an effective date of January 1, 2018 prepared by Stephen Juras, Ph.D., P.Geo., Paul Skayman,

FAusIMM, and Colm Keogh, P.Eng.