SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT AG Of the five shareholders' representatives, three are men and two are women. The minimum percentage requirement pursuant to Section 86 (7) Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) has already been fulfilled. 4. Shareholders' right to information pursuant to Section 118 Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) On request, each shareholder is entitled to obtain information about matters concerning the Company at the Annual General Meeting to the extent that this is necessary to properly assess the items on the Agenda. The information obligation also extends to the legal relations of the Company to an affiliated company and to the state of the Group and of the companies included in the Consolidated Financial Statements. Information may be denied if, according to reasonable business judgement, it could cause significant harm to the Company or an affiliated company, or if the disclosure thereof would constitute an offence. The requirement for exercising the shareholders' right to information is the proof of right to attend (Section IV. of this Invitation) and the granting of a corresponding power of proxy to the special proxy (Section V. of this Invitation). However, it is expressly pointed out that the right to information and the right to speak during this virtual Annual General Meeting can be exercised by the shareholders themselves by way of electronic mail exclusively by sending questions or statements by e-mail directly to the Company at the e-mail address fragen.sbo@hauptversammlung.at [fragen.sbo@hauptversammlung.at]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, shareholders are asked to submit all questions in advance in text form by e-mail to the adress fragen.sbo@hauptversammlung.at [fragen.sbo@hauptversammlung.at] in such manner that they reach the Company no later than on the third business day before the Annual General Meeting, which will be 26 April 2021. This serves to maintain the time efficiency in the interest of all participants in the Annual General Meeting, in particular for issues that require a longer preparation time. It will enable the Executive Board to prepare as accurately as possible and to respond quickly to your questions. Please use the Question Form, which is available on the Company's website at www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung [http://www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung]. If this Question Form is not used, the personal details of the shareholder (name/company name, date of birth/company register number) must be stated in the corresponding e-mail and the conclusion of the statement must be made recognizable by reproduction of the signature or otherwise, e.g. by stating the name/company name (Section 13 (2) Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG)). In this case, in order to enable the Company to establish the identity and correspondence with the deposit confirmation, we ask that you also include your deposit number in the e-mail. Please note that reasonable time restrictions may be set for this during the Annual General Meeting by the Chairman. Further information and modalities for exercising the shareholders' right to information pursuant to Section 118 Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) will be specified in the Participation Information. 5. Shareholders' proposals pursuant to Section 119 Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) Any shareholder - irrespective of a specific shareholding - is entitled to submit proposals on any item on the Agenda at the virtual Annual General Meeting pursuant to COVID-19-GesG and COVID-19-GesV through his/her special proxy. The time up to which instructions for submitting proposals to the special proxy are possible shall be determined by the Chairman in the course of the virtual Annual General Meeting. The requirement for this is proof of the right to attend in accordance with Section IV. of this Invitation and the granting of a corresponding power of proxy to the special proxy in accordance with Section V. of this Invitation. A shareholder proposal for the election of a member to the Supervisory Board is subject to the timely submission of a resolution proposal pursuant to Section 110 Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG): Persons for election to the Supervisory Board (item 6 of the Agenda) may only be proposed by shareholders whose shares together reach 1% of the share capital. Such nominations must be received by the Company no later than 20 April 2021 in the manner specified above (Section VI. (2.)). Each nomination must be accompanied by a declaration pursuant to Section 87 (2) Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) stating the nominee's expert knowledge, his or her professional or comparable functions as well as any circumstances which could give rise to the concern of bias. Otherwise, the shareholder's proposal for the election of a person to the Supervisory Board must not be taken into account when voting. For information pursuant to Section 110 (2) Sentence 2 in conjunction with Section 86 (7) and (9) Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG), reference is made to the explanations in Section VI. (3.). Further information and modalities for exercising the shareholders' right to submit proposals pursuant to Section 119 Stock Corporations Act (AktG) will be specified in the Participation Information. 6. Information on data protection for shareholders SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft processes personal data of the shareholders (in particular those required by Section 10a (2) Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG), i.e. name, address, date of birth, securities deposit number, number of shares of the shareholder, class of shares (if applicable), voting card number as well as name and date of birth of the proxy (if any)) according to the applicable data protection legislation, in particular the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz), in order to enable shareholders to exercise their rights at the Annual General Meeting. Under the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG), the processing of shareholders' personal data is a mandatory prerequisite for the preparation, conducting, follow-up as well as participation of shareholders and their proxies in the Annual General Meeting. The legal basis for the processing is Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR. SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft is the data controller with respect to such processing. SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft uses external service providers such as notaries, lawyers, banks, counting service providers and IT service providers for the purposes of organizing the Annual General Meeting and dividend clearing. They receive from SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft only such personal data as are necessary for the execution of the commissioned service and process the data only in accordance with the instructions of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft. Where legally necessary, SCHOELLER- BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft has concluded a data processing agreement with these service providers. If a shareholder participates in the Annual General Meeting, all shareholders or proxies present, the members of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board, the notary and all other persons with a legal right to participate may inspect the legally mandatory list of participants (Section 117 AktG) and thus also inspect the personal data specified therein (including name, place of residence, shareholding relationship). Furthermore, SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft is required by law to submit personal shareholder data (in particular the list of participants) as part of the notarial protocol to the Commercial Register (Firmenbuch) (Section 120 AktG). Shareholders' data will be anonymized or deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed, unless other legal obligations require further storage. Evidence and storage obligations derive in particular from commercial, stock and takeover legislation, from fiscal and tax legislation and from anti money laundering regulations. If legal claims are made by shareholders against SCHOELLER- BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft or vice versa by SCHOELLER- BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft against shareholders, the storage of personal data serves to clarify and enforce claims in individual cases. This may lead to the storage of data in the context of civil court proceedings for the duration of the limitation period plus the duration of the court proceedings up to their legally binding termination. Each shareholder has a right of access, rectification, restriction, objection, and erasure at any time with regard to the processing of personal data, as well as a right to data portability in accordance with Chapter III of the GDPR. Shareholders may exercise these rights against SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft free of charge by using the e-mail address compliance@sbo.co.at [compliance@sbo.co.at] or the following contact details: SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft Group Compliance Management 2630 Ternitz, Hauptstraße 2 Phone: +43 2630 315 - 0 Furthermore, shareholders have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 GDPR. For further information on data protection, please refer to the privacy policy on the website of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft www.sbo.at/privacypolicy [http://www.sbo.at/privacypolicy]. VII. FURTHER INFORMATION AND NOTES 1. Total number of shares and voting rights At the date of the convocation to the virtual Annual General Meeting the share capital of the company is EUR 16,000,000.00, which is divided into 16,000,000 bearer shares with a nominal of EUR 1.00 each. At the date of convocation of the virtual Annual General Meeting, the total number of voting rights amounts to 15,723,365.
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