FAQ

The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting is being held on Thursday, April 30, 2020 in Mannheim.

At Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim, Rosengartenplatz 2, 68161 Mannheim, Germany  

Countermotions and election nominations by shareholders to be made available, including the shareholders’ names and any supporting information to be made available, will be made available on our website for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting begins on April 30, 2020, at 10:00 a.m., the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim opens at 8:00 a.m.

Information material can be ordered online.

We will publish these details for the 2020 Annual Shareholders‘ Meeting in March 2020.

We will publish these details for the 2020 Annual Shareholders‘ Meeting in March 2020.

The only persons who are entitled to attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and exercise their voting rights are those shareholders who have registered in due time 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 deadline notice of intention at attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting are decisive.

For further information on proxies please feel free to contact BASF at the phone number +49 621 60-52629.

Transport to BASF’s Visitor Center are offered continuously from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please use the commuter bus to Ludwigshafen, arriving at the visitors’ parking lot near Gate 2. From here, you can opt to take a bus tour of the site. Should the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting conclude before 4:00 p.m., another commuter bus will also be available at the end of the Meeting to take visitors to Gate 2; the Visitor Center is open every weekday until 5:00 p.m.

Please note that children must be 6 years or above to participate in a guided tour.

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.

The speech of the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE will be broadcast live on the internet and is accessible at www.basf.com/generalmeeting.

At the time of voting 51.2% of the share capital of BASF SE were represented.

No, there is no full transcript, video or sound recording of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. However, the speech of the Chairman of the Board of Execution Directors (live and replay) is available on our website for two years.

We will publish these details for the 2020 Annual Shareholders‘ Meeting in March 2020.