B. Remuneration of the Members of the Supervisory Board

I. Principles of Supervisory Board remuneration

Following its regular review of Supervisory Board remuneration, the Supervisory Board proposed a revision of the remuneration for the members of the Supervisory Board to the 2017 Annual General Meeting. The proposed revision to the Supervisory Board remuneration system was approved by the Annual General Meeting on May 10, 2017 with 99.98 % of the votes cast. The remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board is governed by Article 17 of the Articles of Association of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft. Section 113(3) of the AktG, as amended by ARUG II, requires the Annual General Meeting of listed companies to pass a resolution on the remuneration of Supervisory Board members at least every four years, whereby a resolution confirming the existing remuneration is also permissible. Information on the system in place for the remuneration of the Supervisory Board members must also be provided in this process. At the Annual General Meeting on July 22, 2021, the Supervisory Board and Board of Management presented the existing remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board for confirmation and the remuneration system for approval. The Annual General Meeting on July 22, 2021 confirmed the remuneration and approved the remuneration system with 99.99 % of the votes cast.

The remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG is comprised entirely of non-performance-related remuneration components. Remuneration for supervisory board work at subsidiaries continues to be comprised partly of non-performance-related and partly of performance-related components.

II. Overview of remuneration

The members of the Supervisory Board of VolkswagenAG receive fixed remuneration of €100,000 per fiscal year. The Chair of the Supervisory Board receives fixed remuneration of €300,000; the Deputy Chair receives fixed remuneration of €200,000.

For their work in the Supervisory Board committees, the members of the Supervisory Board also receive additional fixed remuneration of €50,000 per committee and fiscal year provided the committee met at least once that year for the performance of its duties. Memberships of the Nomination and Mediation Committees established in accordance with section 27(3) of the Mitbestimmungsgesetz (MitbestG – German Codetermination Act) are not taken into account. Committee chairs receive double this amount, while the deputy chairs receive one-and-a-half times the committee remuneration listed previously. Remuneration is paid for work on a maximum of two committees, whereby the two most highly remunerated functions are taken into account if this maximum is exceeded. Supervisory Board members who belonged to the Supervisory Board or one of its committees for only part of the fiscal year receive remuneration on a pro rata temporis basis. Any value-added tax incurred on the remuneration is reimbursed by the Company.

Supervisory Board members receive an attendance fee of €1,000 for attending a meeting of the Supervisory Board or one of its committees; if several meetings take place on the same day, the attendance fee is paid only once.

The remuneration and attendance fees are each payable after the end of the fiscal year.

The remuneration enables suitable, qualified candidates to be recruited to the Supervisory Board. As such, the remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board contributes to the ability of the Supervisory Board as a whole to properly and competently perform its duties of monitoring and advising the Board of Management. Restricting the payment to fixed remuneration is also appropriate to the duties of the Supervisory Board. The restriction provides the Supervisory Board members with an incentive in their monitoring and advisory duties to properly scrutinize the activities of the Board of Management without being guided primarily by the performance of key operating ratios.

Once they have retired from the Supervisory Board, former members no longer receive remuneration from Volkswagen AG for their previous work on the Supervisory Board.

III. Other remuneration

Volkswagen AG reimburses Supervisory Board members for the expenses they incur in the course of their work. In accordance with Article 17(7) sentence 2 of the Articles of Association of Volkswagen AG, the members of the Supervisory Board were also covered in the reporting year by the directors and officers (D&O) insurance taken out by the Company in their interest. The Company paid the premiums for the D&O insurance. There was a deductible of at least 10 % of the damage up to at least one-and-a-half times the fixed remuneration of the relevant Supervisory Board member.

IV. Remuneration to Supervisory Board members in fiscal year 2021

1. Supervisory Board members in fiscal year 2021

The members of the Volkswagen AG Supervisory Board in office during the 2021 fiscal year are listed in the table below.

2. Remuneration granted and owed

The following table shows the remuneration individually granted and owed to each of the Supervisory Board members in fiscal year 2021. This is based on the same understanding of the term “granted and owed” as set out in chapter “Remuneration granted and owed in fiscal year 2021” of this remuneration report. The remuneration reported in the table therefore reflects the amounts actually received in fiscal year 2021.

V. Comparative presentation

The following table compares the year-on-year percentage change in the remuneration of the Supervisory Board members with the earnings performance of Volkswagen AG and with the average remuneration of employees on a full time equivalent basis.

Earnings performance is shown on the basis of Volkswagen AG’s net income or loss for the year. The Volkswagen Group’s earnings after tax are also used as a Group KPI.

The comparison with the growth in average employee remuneration is based on the personnel expenses of Volkswagen AG reported in the notes to the annual financial statements of Volkswagen AG, adjusted for the remuneration of the members of the Board of Management. These adjusted personnel expenses are divided by the number of full time equivalent employees of Volkswagen AG as of December 31, 2021, excluding the members of the Board of Management.