Committees

Members

Dr. Kurt Bock (chair, since June 18, 2020),* Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht (chair, until June 18, 2020),* Franz Fehrenbach, Sinischa Horvat,* Michael Vassiliadis

Duties

• Prepares the appointment of members to the Board of Executive Directors by the Supervisory Board as well as the employment contracts to be entered into with members of the Board of Executive Directors
• When making recommendations for appointments to the Board of Executive Directors, considers professional qualifications, international experience and leadership skills as well as long-term succession planning, diversity, and especially the appropriate consideration of women
• Prepares the resolutions made by the Supervisory Board with regard to the system and amount of compensation paid to members of the Board of Executive Directors

Members

Dame Alison Carnwath DBE (chair),* Tatjana Diether,* Franz Fehrenbach (until February 29, 2020), Anke Schäferkordt (since March 1, 2020),* Michael Vassiliadis

Duties

• Prepares the negotiations and resolutions of the Supervisory Board for the approval of the Financial Statements, the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Management’s Reports including the Nonfinancial Statements and discusses the quarterly statements and the half-year financial report with the Board of Executive Directors prior to their publication
• Deals with monitoring the financial reporting process, the annual audit, the effectiveness of the internal control system, the risk management system, and the internal auditing system as well as compliance issues
• Is responsible for business relations with the company’s external auditor: prepares the Supervisory Board’s proposal to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting regarding the selection of an auditor, monitors the auditor’s independence, defines the focus areas of the audit together with the auditor, negotiates auditing fees, evaluates the quality of the audit, and establishes the conditions for the provision of the auditor’s nonaudit services; the chair of the Audit Committee regularly discusses this with the auditor outside of meetings as well
• Deals with follow-up assessments of key acquisition and investment projects
• Is responsible for monitoring the internal process of identifying related party transactions and ensuring adherence to statutory approval and disclosure requirements; grants approval of related party transactions
• Is authorized to request any information that it deems necessary from the auditor or Board of Executive Directors; can also view all of BASF’s business documents and examine these and all other assets belonging to BASF. The Audit Committee can also engage experts such as auditors or lawyers to carry out these inspections

Financial experts
Pursuant to the German Corporate Governance Code, Dame Alison Carnwath DBE, chair of the Audit Committee, has special knowledge of, and experience in, applying accounting and reporting standards and internal control methods and is familiar with the annual audit. A further financial expert on the Supervisory Board is the vice chair of the Supervisory Board, Franz Fehrenbach, who left the Audit Committee in February 2020, after 12 years of service.

Members

Dr. Kurt Bock (chair, since June 18, 2020),* Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht (chair, until June 18, 2020),* Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell,* Dame Alison Carnwath DBE,* Liming Chen (since December 17, 2020),* Dr. Alexander C. Karp (until July 22, 2020),* Franz Fehrenbach, Anke Schäferkordt*

Duties

• Identifies suitable individuals for the Supervisory Board based on objectives for the composition decided on by the Supervisory Board
• Prepares the recommendations made by the Supervisory Board for the election of Supervisory Board members for the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
  

Members

Dr. Kurt Bock (chair, since June 18, 2020),* Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht (chair, until June 18, 2020),* Dame Alison Carnwath DBE,* Franz Fehrenbach, Waldemar Helber,* Sinischa Horvat,* Michael Vassiliadis

Duties

• Handles the further development of the company’s strategy
• Prepares resolutions of the Supervisory Board on the company’s major acquisitions and divestitures