Number of meetings of the Supervisory Board and its committees in the financial year 2020
One Annual General Meeting and five Supervisory Board meetings distributed across the financial year were held in 2020. Five meetings of the Audit Committee were also held. The meetings of the Supervisory Board and Audit Committee were held without the physical presence of the participants in accordance with § 1 of the Austrian Corporate COVID-19 Act (COVID-19-GesG). The Annual General Meeting was held as a virtual Annual General Meeting on the basis of § 1 (2) COVID-19-GesG and the COVID-19-GesV. The financial statements and consolidated financial statements auditor, KPMG Austria GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft (KPMG), attended three Audit Committee meetings and the Supervisory Board meeting in 2020 that addressed the audit of the 2019 annual financial statements and the 2019 consolidated financial statements as well as formal approval of the 2019 annual financial statements, and also attended the Annual General Meeting. Five meetings of the Committee for Managing Board Matters (Personnel Committee) were held in 2020. The Nomination Committee held one meeting in 2020. The Committee for Urgent Matters (Working Committee) held three meetings in 2020. The Strategy Committee did not meet in 2020. Strategic matters were handled by the Supervisory Board as a whole.
No Member of the Supervisory Board attended less than half of the Supervisory Board meetings.