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Key matters considered by the Board during FY2020 are outlined below.
            Chair’s matters   Board composition, succession   CEO succession
                           planning, performance and culture  CEO transition update                                 Strategic Report
                                                       Approval of the appointment of the new CFO
                                                       Committee succession
                                                       Board composition and succession
                                                       Board evaluation
                                                       Inclusion and diversity update and FY2020 targets
                                                       Corporate governance updates
                                                       Board culture framework                                      2
            Strategic matters  Capital allocation      Dividend policy and dividend recommendations
                           (CAF, capital prioritisation and   Capital prioritisation and portfolio development options
                           development outcomes)
                                                       Capital execution watch list
                           Funding                     COVID-19 financial impacts, balance sheet and forecasts      Governance at BHP
                           (annual budgets, balance sheet   Two-year budget
                           management, liquidity management)
                                                       Funding updates
                           Portfolio                   COVID-19 update – including safety measures, wellbeing steps, workforce planning
                           (Group scenarios, commodity    and community support
                           and asset review, growth options,   Portfolio review – options and alternatives
                           approving commitments, capital
                           and non-capital items and acquisitions   Risk Appetite Statement
                           and divestments above a specified   Climate change scenarios and stakeholder analysis
                           threshold, and geopolitical and   Climate change – medium-term target, Scope 3 emissions, investment fund  Remuneration Report
                           macro-environmental impacts)
                                                       Circular economy
                                                       Samarco strategy, funding and communications
                                                       Germano dam decommissioning
                                                       Energy Coal review
                                                       Petroleum plan
                                                       Jansen Potash project
                                                       Trinidad and Tobago gas
                                                       Resolution Copper project
                                                       Mexico Trion project update                                  Directors’ Report
                                                       Rail technology
                                                       Economic and geopolitical risk
                                                       Escondida and Spence power purchase agreements
                           Social value and other      Social value update
                           significant items           Industry associations review
                                                       Shareholder requisitioned resolutions
                                                       World Class Functions
                                                       Vendor rationalisation
                                                       Culture and capability
                                                       EPS survey and COVID-19 wellbeing survey                     Financial Statements
            Monitoring and   Includes matters and/or documents   Tailings dams updates
            assurance matters  required by the Group’s constitutional   Investor relations reports
                           documents, statute or by other
                           external regulation         CEO reports, including CEO transition
                                                       HSEC reports
                                                       RAC report-outs
                                                       Sustainability Committee report-outs, including site visit report-outs
                                                       Nomination and Governance Committee report-outs
                                                       Remuneration Committee report-outs
                                                       Approval of the CEO’s remuneration                           Additional information
                                                       Reviewing and approving the Annual Reporting suite
                                                       Site visits                                                  Shareholder information























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