FAQ

The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2026.

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, we will provide a live webcast of the speech by BASF's Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors as well as the speech for download. 

Shareholders can follow the entire Annual Shareholders’ Meeting via the online service using their shareholder number and access password.

Access to the online service

The opening of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting by the meeting chair and the speech of the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors are broadcasted live and will be available as a recording for two years on the website at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting.

If you have any questions regarding the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, please contact our Shareholder Hotline on +49 (621) 60-99888 (Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CEST) or send an email to hv-service@basf.com.

Information material can be found online.

The only persons who are entitled – personally or through proxies – to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercise their voting rights are those shareholders who have registered with the Board of Executive Directors of the company not later than Thursday, April 23, 2026, either at the following address

Hauptversammlung BASF SE
c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH
20784 Hamburg
Germany
Fax: +49 89 2070 37951
Email: hv-service@basf.com

or online according to the procedure laid down by the company at www.basf.com/asm-service and who are entered in the share register for the registered shares. For purposes of determining attendance and voting rights, the shares recorded in the share register at the end of April 23, 2026, are decisive.

Shareholders who would like to register via the online service will require their shareholder number and the corresponding access password. Those shareholders who are registered for the email transmission of the invitation to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting shall receive the necessary information in the email invitation to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. All other shareholders entered in the share register shall receive their shareholder number and their access password by post with the written invitation to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

Shareholders who register via the online service and order a ticket to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting have the option to print out their admission ticket directly or have the ticket sent to them via email or post. Unlike the registration for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, the admission ticket is not a prerequisite for attendance but merely serves to simplify the procedure at the entrance to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

If an intermediary is registered in the share register, it can only exercise the voting rights for shares that do not belong to it by virtue of a proxy authorization issued by the shareholder. The same applies to associations of shareholders, proxy advisors and other persons who have equal status to these in accordance with Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act.

Applications for share transfers in the share register that are received by the company after the end of April 23, 2026 (Technical Record Date), up to the end of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 30, 2026, will be executed in the company’s share register and take effect only after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

Owners of American Depositary Shares (ADS) receive the documents for the issue of a proxy authorization from The Bank of New York Mellon (Depositary).

Shares are not blocked by registration for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Shareholders therefore remain free to dispose of their shares even after registration.

The only persons who are entitled to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercise their voting rights are those shareholders who have registered not later than Friday, April 23, 2026 and who are entered in the share register for the registered shares.

For purposes of determining attendance and voting rights, the shares recorded in the share register at the end of April 23, 2026 are decisive.

Absentee voting

Shareholders can cast their votes in writing or by way of electronic communication, without attending the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting (hereinafter “Absentee Voting”). To exercise voting rights, shareholders must register for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting prior to 24:00 (CEST) on April 23, 2026 (see above, under “Requirements for attending the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercising voting rights”).

Electronic Absentee Voting takes place via the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service using the online form provided there. Electronic Absentee Voting, including changes to votes, is possible via the online service until the start of voting. The start of voting will be determined and announced by the chair of the meeting at a point in time after the Board of Executive Directors has finished answering questions.

If votes are cast via postal Absentee Voting, the votes must be received by the beginning of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 30, 2026 (date of receipt), at the following address:

Hauptversammlung BASF SE
c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH
20784 Hamburg
Germany
Fax: +49 89 2070 37951

To change or revoke votes cast by Absentee Voting outside of the online service, the abovementioned provisions relating to the possibilities for transmission and the deadlines apply accordingly.

If shareholders have already voted via Absentee Voting but would instead like to personally exercise their voting rights or have these exercised by a representative during the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, this is possible but will revoke the votes cast via Absentee Voting.

Authorized intermediaries, associations of shareholders and proxy advisors, as well as persons who have equal status to these in accordance with Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act, are also entitled to utilize Absentee Voting.

Voting by company-appointed proxy

As a service, we offer our shareholders the possibility of being represented at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting by proxies appointed by the company. The proxies can be authorized in text form or via the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service. Issuing, changing or revoking a proxy authorization and instructions to the proxies undertaken outside of the online service must reach the company at one of the aforementioned addresses. Issuing proxy authorizations and providing or changing instructions to the proxies are possible until the start of voting. The start of voting will be determined and announced by the chair of the meeting at a point in time after the Board of Executive Directors has finished answering questions.

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, proxy authorizations and instructions to the company- appointed proxies may also be issued, changed, or revoked at the counters in the entrance area.

Please note that for voting via company-appointed proxy as well, registration must be carried out prior to 24:00 (CEST) on April 23, 2026 (see above, under “Requirements for attending the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercising voting rights”). Beatriz Rosa Malavé and Annette Buchen have been appointed proxies with the sole right of representation. The proxies exercise the voting rights solely on the basis of the instructions provided. In the event that an individual vote takes place on an Item of the Agenda, any instruction issued for this purpose will apply to each individual subitem accordingly. Please note that the proxies appointed by th company will not accept any instructions to speak, file opposition to resolutions by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, ask questions or put forward motions on behalf of the shareholder.

If a shareholder has already issued a proxy authorization and voting instructions to the company-appointed proxies but would instead like to personally exercise his or her voting rights or have these exercised by a representative during the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, this is possible fbut will revoke the issuance of the proxy authorization and the instructions to the company-appointed proxies.

Voting by an authorized representative

In addition to Absentee Voting and voting by proxy, shareholders can have their voting rights in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting exercised by an authorized representative, for example, an intermediary, an association of shareholders or a proxy advisor, as well as persons who have equal status to these in accordance with Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act. In this case as well, shareholders must register for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting prior to 24:00 (CEST) on April 23, 2026 (see above, under “Requirements for attending the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercising voting rights”).

The issuing of a proxy authorization, its revocation, and evidence of the authorization vis-à-vis the company can be sent to the company at the following address:

Hauptversammlung BASF SE
c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH
20784 Hamburg
Germany
Fax: +49 89 2070 37951
Email: hv-service@basf.com

In addition, proxy authorizations can be issued or revoked via the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service until the start of voting.

In the case of an authorization of an intermediary, an association of shareholders, a proxy advisor, or any other person having equal status to these in accordance with Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act, the form of authorization is governed by the respective offer for exercising the voting right by the authorized representative.

Those intermediaries, associations of shareholders and proxy advisors, as well as other persons who have equal status to these in accordance with Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act, that participate in the company’s online service can also be authorized via the online service according to the procedure laid down by the company at www.basf.com/asm-service.

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, the issuing of a proxy authorization, its revocation, and evidence of the authorization vis-à-vis the company are also possible at the counters in the entrance area.

After the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of BASF SE on April 30, 2026, you can download your voting confirmation from the online service which will be available from May 5, 2026.

Shareholders whose holdings together reach the twentieth part of the share capital or the pro rata sum of €500,000 (this is equivalent to 390,625 no-par shares) can request that Items be placed on the Agenda and announced. Each new Item must be accompanied by an explanation or a draft resolution. The request must be addressed to the Board of Executive Directors of the company and must have been received by the company by 24:00 (CEST) on March 30, 2026. Such requests must be made in writing or in electronic form in accordance with Section 126a of the German Civil Code, i.e. by email with the addition of the name and a qualified electronic signature, to the following address. Supplementary motions sent to other addresses will not be taken into consideration.

Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE
c/o CL/G – C007
67056 Ludwigshafen
Germany
Or by email to: hv2026@basf.com

Supplements to the Agenda to be announced will – provided that they have not already been announced with the notice of meeting – be published and announced in Germany’s Federal Gazette and online at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting and communicated to the shareholders promptly after the request has been received.

Countermotions with reasons against a proposal by the Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board or by the Supervisory Board alone on a specific Item of the Agenda and, in the event of elections, electoral proposals for the election of members of the Supervisory Board or auditors must be sent to the following address only. Countermotions and electoral proposals sent to other addresses will not be taken into consideration.

BASF SE CL/G – C007
67056 Ludwigshafen
Germany
Fax+49 621 60-6620044
Email: hv2026@basf.com

Countermotions and electoral proposals which are to be made accessible according to the German Stock Corporation Act and are received by 24:00 (CEST) on April 15, 2026, at the above address with evidence of shareholder status will be published promptly on the internet at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting. Any replies from management will also be published at the above internet address.

Countermotions and electoral proposals that are to be made accessible according to the German Stock Corporation Act are published promptly on the internet at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting. Any replies from management will also be published at the above internet address.

Via the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service you may access your data in the share register as well as update the entries you have made there. For any changes to your name, please contact your depositary bank.

BASF saves costs in Europe and the services at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be reduced as well. Due to this reason no factory tours will be offered on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Interested parties will have the opportunity to take part in a free guided tour through the exhibition of the Visitor Center in Ludwigshafen and/or a factory tour on other dates (according to the adapted offer), registration options available at: www.basf.de/visitorcenter.

BASF will provide around 1.650 free car parking spaces: Around 650 free car parking spaces will be located in the underground car park Rosengarten. Around 1.000 free car parking spaces will be found in the BASF car park Z 215 (entrance via Anilinstraße, bus stop Carl-Bosch-Straße) in Ludwigshafen.

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, shuttle buses will run from 7:30 a.m. both from BASF car park Z 215 (entrance via Anilinstraße, bus stop Carl-Bosch-Straße) in Ludwigshafen to Rosengarten and from Mannheim Central Station to Rosengarten. These can be used free of charge upon presentation of the admission ticket. Please note that the admission ticket to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF SE does not include a ticket for public transport.

Refreshments will be served in the foyer. We kindly ask that food and drinks not be brought into the assembly rooms. Smoking is prohibited throughout the building. Please refrain from bringing outside food and beverages as these cannot be taken into the venue and will have to be discarded at the security checkpoint.

You can bring your cellular phone. However, we would like to ask you, though, to keep it switched off so as not to disturb other people attending the meeting.

Infants and children may attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting when accompanied by a legal guardian. Children under the age of 10 receive free admission, while children over the age of 10 require their own admission ticket.

• Food
• Liquids/beverages
• Bottles/cans
• Long umbrellas
• Bulky items and larger luggage
• Weapons
• Knives
• Tools
• Spray cans

Our staff at the information desks will be happy to answer your questions.

The dividend will be paid out on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, i.e., on the third working day after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

The ex-dividend date is Monday, May 4, 2026, i.e., the first working day after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. This is the day on which the shares are traded on the stock exchange without dividend entitlement for the first time.

You can reorder your admission ticket via the online service. To do this, log in to the online service here: www.basf.com/asm-service resp. https://hv.adeus.de/starxm/basf/login?lang=en. 

Alternatively, you can come to a special ticket booth, the so called “Sonderschalter” in the entrance area after the security checks, on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and we will issue you a replacement ticket.

If you registered by the registration deadline (e.g., by ordering an admission ticket through the online service), we can issue you a replacement ticket at a special ticket booth, the so called “Sonderschalter” in the entrance area after the security checks, on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

Log in once again to the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service resp. https://hv.adeus.de/starxm/basf/login?lang=en, where you will be able to change the delivery method for your admission ticket. You can have the admission ticket sent again by postal mail or you can print it out yourself.

Alternatively, you can come to a special ticket booth, the so called “Sonderschalter” in the entrance area after the security checks, on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and we will issue you a replacement ticket.

It is also possible to exercise your voting rights on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting via the online service.

If you are unable to exercise your voting rights, you have the following options for granting a proxy to a third party:

a) Print out and fill in the proxy authorization form and give this to a representative of your choice, or

b) Complete the proxy authorization form attached to the admission ticket email and forward it to a representative of your choice.

This proxy must clearly identify the purpose (representation of voting rights), the shareholder/appointer of the proxy and the authorized representative (e.g., by giving the name and place of residence of the shareholder).

For groups of people, we issue one admission ticket and one guest ticket. You will receive one email with the admission ticket and a separate email with the guest ticket. You can forward either email to another email address at any time.

If an admission ticket is to be used by a person whose name does not appear on the ticket, this person requires an authorization in addition to the admission ticket.

The admission ticket you printed out/that was sent to you by mail is still valid. You can use it to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.