Governance Information • Oct 1, 2022
Governance Information
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Since the last declaration of conformity of October 2021, SAP has complied with the recommendations set out in the German Corporate Governance Code (the "Code") as amended on December 16, 2019 (published in the Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) on March 20, 2020) with the below exception.
In the future, SAP will comply with the recommendations set out in the Code as amended on April 28, 2022 (published in the Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) on June 27, 2022) with the following exception:
The service contracts for Executive Board members and the remuneration system in place for the Executive Board of SAP provide that in the event of a premature termination of the service contract for Executive Board members due to a change of control (as defined in the service contract for Executive Board members) the tranches already granted under the SAP Long-Term Incentive Program 2020 (LTI 2020) will be disbursed without undue delay. The disbursement will be made pro rata temporis in the proportion which the actual term that was shortened due to the change of control bears to the four-year-term of a tranche plus 50% of the portion which would be forfeited if pro rata temporis aspects alone were considered. In view of the above, we declare, by way of precaution, non-conformity with the recommendation set out in section G.12 of the Code. The reason for the provision described above is that a change of control regularly entails changes within a company that let it appear unjustified to make the disbursement amount from long-term variable remuneration components dependent on the performance ofthe company and its share price after the change of control. In addition, SAP is convinced that the intended linkage of the remuneration to sustainable and long-term development is not lost due to this provision since the Executive Board members, during their term of service, cannot expect a change of control to later occur.
Walldorf, October 2022
Christian Klein Luka Mucic
For the Executive Board For the Executive Board
For the Supervisory Board Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner

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