Supervisory Board of BASF SE

In accordance with the statutes, the Supervisory Board of BASF SE comprises 12 members. Based on Sec. 35 para. 1 of the German Act on the Involvement of Employees in a European Company (SE Involvement Act - SEBG), BASF SE is following the principle of parity between shareholder representatives and employee representatives already applied for the constitution of the Supervisory Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft. The six shareholder representatives were elected at the Annual Meeting on April 26, 2007 within the decision on the conversion into an SE. By way of derogation from Sec. 40 para. 2 of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE), the six employee representatives are not elected by the Annual Meeting, but appointed by the representative body of the employees, the BASF SE Euro Dialog, according to the Agreement Concerning the Involvement of Employees in BASF SE concluded within the conversion procedure based on Sec. 21 ff. SEBG. The employee representatives on the first Supervisory Board of BASF SE have been appointed directly by the Agreement Concerning the Involvement of Employees in BASF SE and are members of the Supervisory Board with effect from January 14, 2008 (day of entry of BASF SE in the commercial register of the Ludwigshafen district court). The term of office of all members of the first Supervisory Board of BASF SE terminates upon the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of BASF SE to be held in 2009.

On March 4, 2008 the Supervisory Board elected members Michael Diekmann (chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, Munich) and Robert Oswald (chairman of the works council of the Ludwigshafen site of BASF SE and chairman of the joint works council of BASF) as deputy chairmen of the Supervisory Board.

Committees of the Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board established three committees: The Personnel Committee dealing with personnel issues and the granting of loans, the Audit Committee and, according to the recommendation of the German Corporate Governance Code, newly introduced in July 2007, the Nomination Committee.

Members of the first Supervisory Board of BASF SE

PROF. DR. JÜRGEN STRUBE (PDF, 88 KB), Mannheim
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

Allianz Deutschland AG (supervisory board member)
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (supervisory board member)
Bertelsmann AG (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Commerzbank AG (supervisory board member)
Fuchs Petrolub AG (supervisory board chairman)
Hapag-Lloyd AG (supervisory board member)
Linde AG (supervisory board member)

MICHAEL DIEKMANN, München
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

Linde AG (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (supervisory board member)

Internal memberships as definded in Section 100 (2) of the German Stock Corporation Act

Allianz Deutschland AG (supervisory board chairman)
Allianz Global Investors AG (supervisory board chairman)
Dresdner Bank AG (supervisory board chairman)

Comparable German and non-German controlling bodies

Assurances Générales de France (supervisory board member)
Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà S. p. A. (supervisory board member)

ROBERT OSWALD, Altrip
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
Chairman of the works council of the Ludwigshafen site of BASF SE and chairman of the joint council of BASF Group

RALF GERD BASTIAN, Neuhofen
Member of the works council of the Ludwigshafen site of BASF SE

WOLFGANG DANIEL, Limburgerhof
Deputy Chairman of the works council of the Ludwigshafen site of BASF SE

PROF. DR. FRANÇOIS N. DIEDERICH, Zürich/Schweiz
Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

FRANZ FEHRENBACH, Stuttgart
Chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH
Comparable German and non-German controlling bodies

Robert Bosch Corporation (Member of the Board of Directors)

DR. TESSEN VON HEYDEBRECK, Frankfurt am Main
Former Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

DWS Investment GmbH (supervisory board deputy chairman)

Comparable German and non-German controlling bodies

Deutsche Bank OOO (supervisory board chairman)
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S. A. (supervisory board chairman)
Deutsche Bank Polska S. A. (supervisory board chairman)
Deutsche Bank Rt. (supervisory board chairman)

MAX DIETRICH KLEY (PDF, 35 KB), Heidelberg
Lawyer
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

HeidelbergCement AG (supervisory board member)
Infineon Technologies AG (supervisory board chairman)
Schott AG (supervisory board member)
SGL Carbon AG (supervisory board chairman)

Comparable German and non-German controlling bodies

UniCredito Italiano S.p.A. (member of the board of directors)

ULRICH KÜPPERS, Ludwigshafen
Regional manager of the Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland branch of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union (IGBCE)
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen gGmbH (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Evonik New Energies AG (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Technische Werke Ludwigshafen AG (TWL) (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Villeroy & Boch AG (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Villeroy & Boch Fliesen GmbH (supervisory board member)

DENISE SCHELLEMANS, Kalmthout/Belgium
Full-time trade union delegate

MICHAEL VASSILIADIS, Hemmingen
Member of the Central Board of Executive Directors of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union (IGBCE)
Supervisory board memberships (excluding internal memberships)

Henkel KGaA (supervisory board member)
K+S AG (supervisory board deputy chairman)
K+S Kali GmbH (supervisory board deputy chairman)
Evonik Steag GmbH (supervisory board deputy chairman)

Publications & Figures

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