Company: BBU
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-017216
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Company: Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 board is responsible for its agenda. Prior to each board meeting, the Executive Chairman of the board discusses agenda items for the meeting with Brookfield. At all quarterly meetings, the independent directors hold meetings without the presence of management and the directors that are not independent.

Director Orientation and Education

New directors are provided with comprehensive information about our company and its affiliates. Arrangements are made for specific briefing sessions from appropriate senior personnel to help new directors better understand our strategies and operations. They also participate in the continuing education measures discussed below.

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The board of directors receives annual operating plans for each of our strategic business units and more detailed presentations on particular strategies. Existing directors are invited to join the orientation sessions for new directors as a refresher. The directors are also invited to participate in guided tours of our various operational facilities. They have the opportunity to meet and participate in work sessions with management to obtain insight into the operations of our company and our affiliates. Directors are regularly briefed to help better understand industry-related issues such as accounting rule changes, transaction activity, capital markets initiatives, significant regulatory developments, as well as trends in corporate governance.

Director Expectations

The BBU General Partner’s board of directors has adopted a Charter of Expectations for Directors, which applies to non-Brookfield-employed directors, which outlines the basic duties and responsibilities of directors and the expectations our company places on them in terms of professional and personal competencies, performance, behavior, security ownership, conflicts of interest and resignation events. Among other things, the Charter of Expectations for Directors outlines the role of non-Brookfield-employed directors in stakeholder engagement and the requirement of directors to attend board meetings and review meeting materials in advance.

A director who directly or indirectly has an interest in a contract, transaction or arrangement with our company or certain of its affiliates is required to disclose the nature of his or her interest to the full board. Directors are also expected to submit their resignations to the Executive Chairman of the board if they have been absent without leave from three consecutive meetings of the board or if they become involved in a legal dispute, regulatory or similar proceedings, take on new responsibilities or experience other changes in personal or professional circumstances that could adversely impact our company or their ability to serve as director.

Audit committee

Our board of directors is required to maintain an audit committee that operates pursuant to a written charter. The audit committee consists solely of independent directors and each member is financially literate, which is defined under our audit committee charter to mean having the ability