Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 37

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 37
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 The DJSI is composed of sustainability leaders identified by the S&P based on performance across long-term environmental, social and governance and economic criteria.

In furtherance of our commitment to corporate responsibility, our Annual Bonus Plan includes an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) modifier that is based on Company-wide progress toward diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, and environmental sustainability goals. For more information on our Annual Bonus Plan, please see the Compensation Discussion & Analysis section in this Proxy Statement.

For more information, please see our performance report available at https://www.bostonscientific.com/performancereport . This report and other information on our website are not incorporated by reference into and do not form any part of this Proxy Statement.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement27

#### Meetings and Board Committees

#### Board Meetings and Director Attendance
The Board met seven times in 2024. In 2024, each incumbent director attended at least 75% of the aggregate of (1) the total number of meetings of our Board (held during the period for which he or she has been a director) and (2) the total number of meetings of all committees of our Board on which the director served (during the periods that he or she served). Directors are expected to prepare for and use reasonable efforts to participate in all Board meetings and meetings of the committees on which they serve. The Board and each committee will meet as frequently as necessary to properly discharge their responsibilities, provided that the Board will meet at least four times per year. In addition, directors are expected to use reasonable efforts to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders. At our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, all of our then-serving directors were in attendance.

#### Executive Sessions
Directors who qualify as independent directors within the meaning of the NYSE Corporate Governance Standards meet in executive session without management at every regularly scheduled Board meeting and at such other times as they deem appropriate. In 2024, our independent directors met in executive session without non-independent directors five times. The Chairman of the Board, if independent, or the Lead Independent Director, if the Chairman of the Board is not independent, will preside at executive sessions of independent directors. In his or her absence, the Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee presides at these executive sessions, and, in his or her absence, the Chair of the Audit Committee presides.

#### Committees of the Board
Our Board currently has the following standing committees: Audit, Compensation Committee, Nominating