224 BMW Group Report 2024 To Our Stakeholders Combined Management Report Group Financial Statements Responsibility Statement and Auditor’s Report Remuneration Report Other Information Sustainability Statement Number of work stoppages This metric is an additional disclosure based on SASB, TR-AU- 310a.2. The BMW Group discloses the number of work stop- pages (strikes and lockouts) that affected more than 1,000 em- ployees and lasted an entire shift or longer. The length of a shift varies depending on the type of shift and location, but usually co- vers the daily working hours of a full-time employee. If a trigger (e.g. a collective agreement negotiation) leads to several events at different times, this is evaluated as one work stoppage based on the same cause. O Other BMW Group employees This includes apprentices, dual students, interns, authors of the- ses, post-graduate students, scholarship holders, assistants, working students and (journalist) trainees. P Parental leave Parental leave is a period of absence from work granted to an employee of the BMW Group before and/or after the birth of a child or in the case of adoption, usually on the basis of national legal regulations. People on long-term sick leave BMW Group employees who are absent due to illness for an ex- tended period of time. According to the country-specific defini- tions, the employee is no longer counted as an employee of the BMW Group, but is expected to return to work after recovery. Percentage of all employees who have participated in regular performance and career development reviews The percentage of employees who have received an annual per- formance and career development assessment is calculated by dividing the number of annual performance and career develop- ment assessments conducted by the number of employees as at 31 December of the reporting year. The calculation broken down by gender is calculated in the same way. Gender identities are defined in line with the ESRS. Only the regular annual performance and career development assessment agreed with management and carried out by 31 December of the reporting year is counted. Every employee who has been employed by the BMW Group for at least six months during the assessment period and is present when this process is applied in the respective BMW Group company is entitled to it. If an individual has received two assessments, for example due to a change of position or an extraordinary interim assessment, only one per employee is taken into account. In the international environment, team as- sessments rather than individual assessments are common in the production sector. These are not included in the indicator. Percentage of employees in the European Economic Area (EEA) covered by employee representation The percentage is calculated as the number of employees who have employee representation, divided by the number of all em- ployees as at 31 December of the reporting year. Only employ- ees who work in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) are considered. Reporting covers those EEA countries in which BMW Group has significant employment, defined as at least 50 employees by head count representing at least 10% of its total number of employees. Percentage of employees who are covered by an occupational health and safety management system All BMW Group locations have an occupational health and safety management system that is based on the globally applicable ISO 45001 standard and the internal regulations of the BMW Group’s occupational health and safety policy. Occupa- tional health and safety management systems are in place at all production sites and certified in accordance with this standard or OHRIS, which is based on ISO 45001. This means that 100% of BMW Group employees, other BMW Group employees and temporary agency workers in the BMW Group work at a location that has an occupational health and safety management system. The metric includes Spotlight Automotive Ltd. with a share of 100%. Percentage of safety and compliance problems investigated This metric is an additional disclosure based on SASB, TR-AU- 250a.2 (2). The percentage of investigated safety and compliance problems covers all technical problems in BMW Group vehicles that are recorded as safety and/or compli- ance-relevant in the internal problem management process. The data are recorded by defined sensors that continuously analyse relevant data from vehicles in series production and report any anomalies. The number of problems that were processed in the reporting year is compared with the total number of problems recorded in the reporting year. Percentage of vehicle models rated by NCAP programmes with an overall safety rating of 5 stars by region The metric is an additional figure based on SASB, TR-AU- 250a.1. The BMW Group reports the percentage of vehicle mod- els by region that have received an overall safety rating of 5 stars from NCAP programmes. The BMW Group focuses its reporting on Europe, China, the USA and Korea. The percentage is calcu- lated as the number of vehicle models rated by an NCAP pro- gramme with an overall rating of 5 stars divided by the total num- ber of vehicle models rated by an NCAP programme. The New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAP) are assessments of the safety level of a vehicle model by independent consumer protec- tion organisations. The ratings shown are valid until the end of the reporting year. The report lists models that will be produced until the end of the reporting year. Postgraduate students People with a temporary contract at a BMW Group company who are studying at a university and are working on their dissertation. Privacy by Design Privacy by Design is a concept that aims to integrate data pro- tection and privacy into the development of products, services and business processes from the very beginning. It is based on the assumption that data protection should not be seen as an afterthought, but as a fundamental element that must be built into all phases of the life cycle of a system or application.