Executive Board
The Executive Board manages the Company in its own responsibility. The members of the Executive Board are appointed by the Supervisory Board. The Executive Board consists of six members (see page 175). Details of the compensation of the members of the Executive Board can be found in the compensation report, which is included as a section of this corporate governance report.
Supervisory Board
The Company's Supervisory Board is composed of an equal number of shareholder and employee representatives. The Supervisory Board, which will sit until the Annual General Meeting on May 21, 2008, has 16 members (see page 172). Because there are now regularly more than 20,000 employees working in Germany, the number of Supervisory Board members, in accordance with Paragraph 1 Section 3 of the German Industrial Codetermination Act, increases to 20. Accordingly, ten shareholder representatives will be elected by the Annual General Meeting on May 21, 2008. In accordance with the Codetermination Act, the members representing the employees are elected by the workforce. The Supervisory Board advises and monitors the management of the Company by the Executive Board. Within the context of its report, the Supervisory Board informs the shareholders on its activities.
The current composition of the Supervisory Board and the committees assembled for more efficient execution of its activities can be seen in the section of the Annual Report entitled “Boards of the Company”.
The compensation of the members of the Supervisory Board is shown in the compensation report.
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting is to be convened at least once each year. The Executive Board presents to the Annual General Meeting certain documents, including the individual and consolidated financial statements, and the management reports for the Company and the Group. The Meeting decides on the appropriation of profits and on ratifying the actions of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board, elects the members of the Supervisory Board representing the shareholders, and the external auditors. In addition, it makes decisions on amendments to the Articles of Incorporation and in certain other cases as specified by applicable law or the Articles of Incorporation. Each share grants entitlement to one vote in the Annual General Meeting.
Directors’ Dealings
Pursuant to Section 15a of the German Securities Trading Act, the members of the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board, other persons with management duties who regularly have access to insider information on the Company and who are authorized to make significant business decisions, and certain persons who are in a close relationship with those persons, are legally obliged to disclose to Bilfinger Berger AG any acquisitions and disposals of Bilfinger Berger shares and related financial instruments, particularly derivatives from an amount of more than €5,000 in any calendar year.We published details of such transactions on our Internet website at www.bilfinger.com without delay.
The members of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board do not own any shares in the Company or any related financial instruments that together, either directly or indirectly, constitute more than 1% of the shares issued by the Company.