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Anniversary Report 2018 Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) Eschenstrasse 55 31224 Peine Germany T +49-5171 43-0 F +49-5171 43-1218 [email protected] www.bge.de As of June 2019 Editor: Dagmar Dehmer (DD), Martina Schwaldat (MS), Ursula Ahlers Anniversary Report Design: BUSCHBRAND grafikdesign 2018 Printing: Druckhaus Giese & Seif OHG Photography: Christian Bierwagen, Janosch Gruschczyk printed on FSC-certified recycled paper Die heilige Barbara - Schutzpatronin der Bergleute Glück auf! For you as employees and for us as management, the 2018 financial year was largely determined by the development of a new organisational structure for BGE. Nonetheless, you have shown exemplary commitment to the implementation of BGE projects with your professional competence in an environment marked by change. We thank you for this loyalty and look forward to advanc- ing BGE together with you and the representatives of the works’ council. The management board Cover: A platform being used for safety work at the Morsleben final repository. 2 3 Table of contents 4 Supervisory board report 26 Financial statements for fiscal 2018 6 Opening remarks from 28 Profit and loss account management: Safety at BGE - 30 Development of fixed assets a topic with many facets 32 Management report 8 Social security – why it’s important that 34 Economic report/business development company partners work together. 40 Earnings, financial position and net assets 10 Communication, openness, and 46 Staff and social report flexibility ensure safety 48 Forecast, opportunity and risk report 14 Safety is priority #1 – 52 Annex for the fiscal year Scenes from everyday work safety 20 Guest contribution | Reporting flaws: Moving beyond ”please use handrails”. 22 Long-term safety - thinking outside the box 24 IT security and data protection: Anchoring information security and data protection in people’s minds 4 5 Supervisory board report Members In 2018, the management board informed the super- The supervisory board would like to express its thanks Jochen Flasbarth Franz-Gerhard Hörnschemeyer Industry Group Sec- visory board at BGE mbH orally and in writing about and appreciation to the management board and all Chairman of the Supervisory Board retary Energy Sustainability of the Mining, all material business transactions. At two meetings employees for the work they did in 2018. Undersecretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Chemical and Energy Industries Union, Hanover of the supervisory board, business developments and Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin individual events were discussed; transactions were Peine, 27 June 2018 Dr. Holle Jakob dealt with as required by law and Company by-laws. Gregor van Beesel Head of the Department of The merger of BGE, DBE mbH, and Asse-GmbH Jochen Flasbarth Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board Fundamental Issues Participations on 28 November 2017 increased the number of Supervisory board chairman Dipl.-Ing. cartography, Bundesgesellschaft für End- at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin employees to above 500, requiring a new supervisory lagerung mbH, Peine (employee representative) board that had to contain at least one third employee Dr. Andreas Kerst representatives (One-Third Participation Act). Dirk Alvermann Speaker in Division VIII B3 Mr Hubertus Heil and Mr. Steffen Kanitz stepped down Foreman Participation in Deutsche Telekom AG, Bundes- on 23 March 2018 and 31 July 2018, respectively. Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Morsleben druckerei and Toll Collect in the (employee representative) Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin On 26 October 2018, the new supervisory met for the first time. Undersecretary Jochen Flasbarth was Sylvia Kotting-Uhl elected chairman; Mr Gregor van Beesel, deputy chair. Ursula Borak MP (Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN Group) PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH of Hannover audit- Head of International Affairs, Fossil Fuels and Nuclear and Chairwoman of the Committee on the Environ- ed BGE’s consolidated financial statements for 2018, Energy division ment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety giving them an unqualified certificate. After its own at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, of the German Bundestag, Berlin review, the supervisory board approved the consoli- Berlin dated financial statements as at 31 December 2018 Jens Lindner and recommended their approval to the Dr. Wolfgang Cloosters Shift supervisor General Assembly. Head of Department Nuclear Safety, Radiation Pro- Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, tection, Salzgitter, Germany Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conser- (employee representative) vation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin Gabriele Theisen Sabine Diehr Head of Finance and Accounting Ministerial Councillor Nuclear Decommissioning Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Experimental plants, dismantling research Remlingen (employee representative) Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin Peter Wolff Leonie Gebers System administrator Undersecretary Federal company for final disposal mbH, Remlingen at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, (employee representative) Berlin Prof. Dr. Karin Holm-Müller Head of the Chair of Resource and Environmental Economics at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University, Bonn 6 7 Safety at BGE – a topic with many facets BGE (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung) How do we understand security at BGE? In the fol- ensures that radioactive waste from the use of lowing you will find informed positions on this subject nuclear energy in Germany is safely stored under- from internal and external experts. We make the safe ground - and stays there. For BGE, safety is a term final disposal of radioactive waste possible, thus con- with many meanings. tributing to the protection of people and the environ- Gerrit Müller, Sebastian Ulbrich, Robert Jennerich, ment. That is our job. central control room (Morsleben final repository) What is needed to guarantee safety against radi- oactivity, against dangerous accidents at work in the mines, against hacker attacks on IT systems and against material fatigue? What culture of reporting errors is necessary to create security over a long period of time? How does BGE manage to become a learning organisation? Viktor Schlender, Norman Feige, constant monitoring of climate conditions (Asse repository mine) Stefan Kadoić, Jörg Horand perform a security check at the data center at BGE headquarters Christian Islinger explains how an air pack works. Konrad repository mine) From right to left: Stefan Studt, Chairman of Management Board Dr. Thomas Lautsch, Chief Technical Officer Beate Kallenbach-Herbert, Commercial Managing Director Steffen Kanitz, Deputy Chairman of Management 8 9 Social security – why it’s important that company partners work together The thoughts of Wolfgang Meyer zu Düttingdorf, HR director, and Wolfgang Filbert, works council chairman … ... about social security at BGE, about the challeng- of an emergency, accident or fire, they are imme- Wolfgang Filbert (left) and es arising from the upcoming generation change in diately on the spot. The knowledge, creativity and Wolfgang Meyer zu Düttingdorf (right) the company, and about how the demand for skilled experience within the company are also used and workers at the company can be secured in the long rewarded through the company suggestion scheme term. - a great potential to further develop the company As of 31 December 2018, BGE had 1,882 employees at a total of eight locations, 1,458 of which were company through suggestions from the workforce in the areas employees, 273 temporary employees, and 151 civil servants assigned by BfS. A total of 53 trainees were When Wolfgang Meyer zu Düttingdorf and Wolfgang of improvement of working conditions, safety, health employed. Filbert are asked about social security at the compa- protection and economic activity. ny, they each point to a number of agreements. For Six locations have their own works council committees with between three and eleven members. Each location example, there are regulations on continued payment For Wolfgang Meyer zu Düttingdorf, one topic in is represented by two members of the general works council. There are also youth trainee representatives and of wages in the event of illness, on accident insurance, particular has the highest priority these days: the representatives for the severely disabled. and on pension support. What they all have in com- qualification of employees for future changes and mon is that they go beyond the minimum benefits challenges. A sophisticated and comprehensive laid down by law. They often sit opposite each other personnel development concept is currently being at the negotiating table to negotiate such agree- developed. Meyer zu Düttingdorf has many discussions with The two certainly will not run out of things to talk ments. Both have the company in mind, albeit from Filbert when it comes to creating attractive offers about any time soon! (MS) different perspectives. It becomes clear: The cooper- For him, this not only includes personnel planning for the compatibility of family and career. Employees ation of the business parties is important. It is always and recruitment. To ensure that BGE is perceived would like to see even more flexible working time important to talk to each other at an early stage and as a particularly attractive employer on the labour models. Talks about possible solutions are current- to make compromises for the benefit of the employ- market, personnel marketing is also becoming in- ly underway between the company
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