Supervisory board of the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (BGE)

Under section 9a (3), second sentence, of the Atomic Energy Act (Atomgesetz, AtG) the Federal Government has to use a third party to carry out its responsibilities for constructing, operating and decommissioning final repositories. The same applies to the search for a repository site in accordance with the Repository Site Selection Act (Standortauswahlgesetz, StandAG). For this purpose, in the summer of 2016, the Federal Government founded the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, BGE), a 100 per cent federally-owned company under private law. BGE's role is to perform all tasks in the field of nuclear waste disposal resulting from the Atomic Energy Act and the Repository Site Selection Act (section 9a (3), second sentence, of the Atomic Energy Act) as a federally-owned company, both as implementer in the repository site selection process and in terms of constructing and operating final repositories.

Early 2018, BGE will have a staff of 1,900 at its different locations (among them Peine, Salzgitter, Remlingen and Morsleben).

In accordance with German co-determination legislation and the Act on One-Third Employee Representation (Drittelbeteiligungsgesetz), BGE will be subject to worker participation from 1 January 2018. The supervisory board, which will then be mandatory, was established in the summer of 2017. The supervisory board's tasks are regulated by the Limited Liability Companies Act (GmbHG), the Stock Corporation Act (AktG), the Articles of Association and the supervisory board's rules of procedure. BGE applies the Code on Public Corporate Governance (PCGK).

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(Last updated: December 2022)