FAQ

The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting is being held on Friday, May 3, 2019 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 May 3, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim opens at 8:00 a.m.

Information material can be ordered 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 Friday, April 26, 2019, either at the following address

Hauptversammlung BASF SE
c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH 20784 Hamburg
Germany
Fax: +49 69 256270-49
Email:  hv-service@basf.com

or online according to the procedure laid down by the company at www.basf.com/agm-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 26, 2019, are decisive.

Shareholders who would like to register online 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 receive their shareholder number with the email invitation to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and must use the access password they chose at registration. All other shareholders entered in the share register receive their shareholder number and their  access  password by post with the letter of invitation to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

After registering, shareholders or their proxy holders are issued admission tickets to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Shareholders who register via the online service are able to print out their admission ticket directly or have the ticket sent to them via email. 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 a credit institution 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 issued by the shareholder.

Applications for share transfers in the share register that are received by the company after the end of April 26, 2019 (Technical Record Date) up to the end of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 3, 2019 will be executed in the company’s share register and take effect only after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 3, 2019.

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

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

Shareholders who are entered in the share register can exercise their voting rights themselves or have these exercised at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting by an authorized representative, such as a credit institution or an association of shareholders, or by company-appointed proxies. In this case as well, the shareholder or the authorized representative must ensure that registration is carried out in good time.

Voting by a proxy holder
A proxy, its revocation, and evidence of the authorization vis-a-vis the company can be made in text form or issued online at www.basf.com/agm-service; notwithstanding, in the case of an authorization of a credit institution, an association of shareholders, or any other person specified in Section 135(8) of the German Stock Corporation Act, the form of authorization is governed by the appropriate offer for exercising the voting right.

A proxy, 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 69 256270-49
Email:  hv-service@basf.com

or online according to the procedure laid down by the company at www.basf.com/agm-service.

Those credit institutions and associations of shareholders that participate in the company’s Online Service can also be authorized online according to the procedure laid down by the company at www.basf.com/agm-service.

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 online at www.basf.com/agm-service. Beatriz Rosa Malavé and Annette Buchen have been appointed proxies with the sole right of representation. The proxies exercise the voting right solely on the basis of the instructions issued by the shareholder. 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 sub-item accordingly. Please note that the proxies appointed by the 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.

Shareholders who would like to use the internet to authorize the proxies appointed by the company or the credit institutions and associations of shareholders participating in the Online Service will require their shareholder number and the corresponding access password.

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 52.39% 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.

Countermotions with reasons against a proposal by the Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board on a specific Item of the Agenda and 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
G-FLL - D 100
67056 Ludwigshafen Germany
Fax: +49 621 60-6643693
or     +49 621 60-6641475
Email: hv2019@basf.com

Countermotions and electoral proposals that are to be made accessible according to the German Stock Corporation Act and are received up to the end of April 18, 2019, at the above address with evidence of shareholder status will be published promptly on the internet at www.basf.com/generalmeeting. Any replies from management will also be published at the above internet address.