FAQ

The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be held on Friday, May 2,2025.

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

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

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 CET) or send an email to hv-service@basf.com.

Information material can be ordered online.

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2025.

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2025.

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2025.

After the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF SE on April 25, 2024, you could download your voting confirmation from the online service at www.basf.com/asm-service, which was available until May 27, 2024.

We will publish the relevant requirements and deadlines in due time in 2025.

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

BASF saves costs in Europe and the services at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting were reduced as well. Due to this reason no factory tours were 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 provided around 1.650 free car parking spaces: Around 650 free car parking spaces were located in the underground car park Rosengarten. Around 1.000 free car parking spaces were 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, free shuttle buses 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. Please note that the admission ticket to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF SE does not include a ticket for public transport.

Refreshments were served in the foyer. We kindly asked 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 dividend was paid out on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, i.e., on the third working day after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

The ex-dividend date was Friday, April 26, 2024, 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://basf.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://basf.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.