Corporate Governance Report and Declaration on Corporate Management

Corporate governance is an important part of a company’s success and of responsible corporate management and supervision. Wacker Chemie AG attaches great importance to the rules of proper corporate governance. In this report, the Executive Board provides details – also for the Supervisory Board – on corporate governance in accordance with Section 3.10 of the German Corporate Governance Code (the Code) and Sections 289 f and 315 d of the German Commercial Code (HGB).

Declaration of Conformity and Corporate Governance Reporting

In 2017, the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board dealt intensively with the company’s corporate governance and the recommendations of the Code in its currently valid version published on February 7, 2017. The Executive and Supervisory Boards resolved in December 2017 to issue the following Declaration of Conformity, which is available to the general public on the company’s website.