Number of and significant content of the meetings of the Supervisory Board and the Committee in the business year 2019/20

During the business year 2019/20, the Supervisory Board fulfilled its responsibilities under the law and the Articles of Association, holding six plenary sessions, three meetings of the Audit Committee, and five meetings of the General Committee.

In both the plenary sessions and the Audit Committee meetings, the Management Board provided comprehensive oral and written information regarding the development of the company’s business as well as its financial management and position. At its final meeting for the reporting period on March 19, 2020, the Supervisory Board dealt intensively with the economic distortions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, its potential ramifications for voestalpine, and the measures the Management Board has planned.

In addition to discussions of regular reports on the Group’s current business and financial position, at its meetings the Supervisory Board dealt particularly with scenarios regarding CO2-reduced steelmaking, voestalpine’s digitalization strategy, issues related to innovation and information technology as well as the revision of the rules of procedure for the Management Board. Both the General Committee and the Supervisory Board discussed the proposal regarding the candidates for the elections to the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting on July 3, 2019, as well as the 2019 Austrian Corporate Law Amending Act (Aktienrechts-Änderungsgesetz), especially the new rules and regulations thereunder regarding both the Compensation Policy and the Compensation Report (“say on pay”). Moreover, the General Committee dealt with the revision of the rules of procedure for the Supervisory Board and the lawsuit that a shareholder filed against the election of Dr. Wolfgang Eder to the Supervisory Board of voestalpine AG after the Annual General Meeting 2019. This court case was suspended in perpetuity in the first quarter of calendar year 2020 and thus has ended.

The Audit Committee dealt, in particular, with the implementation of a procedure for selecting a new auditor at the Annual General Meeting 2019; the preparation and audit of the company’s Consolidated Financial Statements and Annual Financial Statements 2019/20; the auditor’s independence; as well as issues related to the internal control system (ICS), the risk management system, and Internal Audit.

The auditor, Grant Thornton Unitreu GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria, attended the meeting of the Audit Committee on June 4, 2019, and was available for questions and discussions. The auditor, Deloitte Audit Wirtschaftsprüfungs GmbH, which had been elected by the Annual General Meeting on July 3, 2019, attended the meetings of the Audit Committee in September and December 2019. All meetings of the Audit Committee in the business year 2019/20 thus were attended by the auditor, and the latter was available for questions and discussions.

The Supervisory Board postponed the self-evaluation under Rule 36 of the Corporate Governance Code, which was planned for the meeting on March 19, 2020, to the meeting on June 2, 2020, because not all members of the Supervisory Board were present in person owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions and because it makes sense to carry out a self-evaluation in a meeting at which all participating members are present in person.


About voestalpine

In its business segments, voestalpine is a globally leading steel and technology group with a unique combination of materials and processing expertise. voestalpine, which operates globally, has around 500 Group companies and locations in more than 50 countries on all five continents. It has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since 1995. With its top-quality products and system solutions, it is a leading partner to the automotive and consumer goods industries as well as the aerospace and oil & gas industries, and is also the world market leader in railway systems, tool steel, and special sections. voestalpine is fully committed to the global climate goals and is working intensively to develop technologies which will allow it to decarbonize and reduce its CO2 emissions over the long term. In the business year 2019/20, the Group generated revenue of EUR 12.7 billion, with an operating result (EBITDA) of EUR 1.2 billion; it had about 49,000 employees worldwide.

Facts

50 Countries on all 5 continents
500 Group companies and locations
49,000 Employees worldwide

Earnings FY 2019/20

€ 12.7 Billion

Revenue

€ 1.2 Billion

EBITDA

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