FAQ

General

The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024.

For all shareholders of BASF SE, a live video and audio broadcast of the entire Annual Shareholders’ Meeting has been transmitted via the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service on April 27, 2023, starting at 10:00 a.m. The opening of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting by the meeting chair and the speech of the company’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors was broadcasted live online on April 27, 2023, and will be accessible to all at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting and available as a recording after the conclusion of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

The live broadcast of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting does not enable participation in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in accordance with Section 118(1) sentence 2 of the German Stock Corporation Act.

The speech of the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors (live and replay) is available on our website at www.basf.com/shareholdersmeeting for two years.

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 6:00 pm CEST) or send an e-mail to hv-service@basf.com.

Information material can be ordered online.

Participation in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2024.

After the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF SE on April 27, 2023, you can download your voting confirmation from the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service, which will be available until May 31, 2023.

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2024.

Countermotions and electoral proposals that are to be made accessible according to the German Stock Corporation Act 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.

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

Organizational Information

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, free shuttle buses will run from 7:30 a.m. both from parking lot Z 230 in Karl-Müller-Strasse in Ludwigshafen to the Rosengarten and from Mannheim Central Station to the Rosengarten. 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.

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

Dividend

The next dividend will be paid out on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

The ex-day was Friday, April 28, 2023, 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.

Fiscal year	Dividend per share	Annual Shareholders’ Meeting	Payment date
2022	3.40	04/27/2023	05/03/2023
2021	3.40	04/29/2022	05/04/2022
2020	3.30	04/29/2021	05/04/2021
2019	3.30	06/18/2020	06/23/2020
2018	3.20	05/03/2019	05/08/2019
2017	3.10	05/04/2018	05/09/2018
2016	3.00	05/12/2017	05/17/2017
2015	2.90	04/29/2016	05/02/2016
2014	2.80	04/30/2015	05/04/2015
2013	2.70	05/02/2014	05/05/2014
2012	2.60	04/26/2013	04/29/2013
2011	2.50	04/27/2012	04/30/2012
2010	2.20	05/06/2011	05/09/2011
2009	1.70	04/29/2010	04/30/2010
2008	1.95	04/30/2009	05/04/2009
2007	1.95	04/24/2008	04/25/2008
2006	1.50	04/26/2007	04/27/2007
2005	1.00	05/04/2006	05/05/2006
2004	0.85	04/28/2005	04/29/2005
2003	0.70	04/29/2004	04/30/2004
2002	0.70	05/06/2003	05/07/2003
2001	0.65	04/30/2002	05/02/2002
2000	0.65 + 0.35	04/26/2001	04/27/2001
1999	0.57	04/27/2000	04/28/2000

Mobile Admission Tickets

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”, 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”, 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”, 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).

You can forward the email with the admission tickets to another email address at any time. The admission tickets are labeled “Admission ticket 1 of 2” and “Admission ticket 2 of 2” so that you can tell them apart.

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.

We currently do not offer a mobile guest ticket.

FAQ

General

When is the next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting?

Is there a live broadcast of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on the Internet?

Are there transcripts and/or recordings of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting?

Who can help me with questions regarding the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting?

Can I order information material?

Participation in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

Who can participate in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting?

Is it possible to participate in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting if I have sold my BASF shares but nevertheless received an invitation?

How can I exercise my voting rights?

Can I get confirmation of my vote at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting?

How may shareholders submit countermotions and electoral proposals?

How are countermotions by shareholders published?

How can I access the share register and change my address or e-mail address, for example?

Organizational Information

How do I get to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF SE?

Will refreshments be served?

Will cellular phones be permitted?

Who can help me at the Congress Center?

Dividend

When is the next payment date?

When was the ex-day in 2023?

What was the dividend per share in previous years and when was it paid?

Mobile Admission Tickets

Before the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting: My email address has changed. / I can’t find the email with the admission ticket on my mobile phone. / I lost my mobile phone. What can I do?

On the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting: I can’t find the email with the admission ticket on my mobile phone. / I can’t find/lost my mobile phone. / My phone’s battery has died. What can I do?

I had the admission ticket sent to me by email, but my mobile phone cannot display emails. What can I do?

I had the admission ticket sent to me by email, but I am unable to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in person. Can I forward the email to a representative?

I had two admission tickets sent to me via email. Why can I only have these sent to one email address? How can the person accompanying me and I store the tickets on our two mobile phones (e.g., when we are not arriving at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at the same time)?

Is there a mobile guest ticket?