Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000312069-25-000114
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Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 155
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 as Chair of Barclays Europe, the Group&#8217;s principal European subsidiary, the Committee and the Board consider it is appropriate for Tim to continue as an independent Non- Executive Director. The Committee and the Board consider all of the Non-Executive Directors to be independent. Strategy Shareholder information Climate and sustainability report Risk review Financial review Financial statements Barclays PLC 2024 Annual Report on Form 20-F 79Governance Directors&#8217; report: Board Nominations Committee report (continued)

Time commitment Prior to their appointment, all proposed new Directors are asked to disclose their other significant commitments, which are then taken into account by the Committee and/or the Board when considering their appointment to ensure that Directors can discharge their responsibilities to Barclays effectively. Ahead of his appointment to the Board, the Committee reviewed the existing commitments disclosed by Brian Shea and was comfortable that they would not impact his ability to devote such time as is necessary to discharge his duties to Barclays effectively. Expected time commitments are agreed with each Non-Executive Director on an individual basis, and include time to understand the business and complete training as well as time to attend and prepare for formal Board and Board Committee meetings. The Committee and/or the Board considers relevant regulatory and Code requirements when considering whether a Director has sufficient time to commit to their role, in addition to key investor and proxy adviser guidelines. External executive and non-executive directorships held within listed companies for each of the Directors are set out in the table on this page. You can find details of other principal appointments for each Director from page 64. Before a Director accepts any significant new commitment outside of Barclays, they are required to seek approval from the Board (providing an indication of expected overall time commitment). Prior to approving any significant new external commitment for a Director, the Board reviews all relevant facts and circumstances (including the expected role and time commitment, as well as the nature of the external organisation). In 2024, all external appointment requests were approved on the basis that the Board was satisfied with any actual or potential conflicts and the Board was confident that the Director in question remained able to devote such time necessary to discharge their duties to Barclays effectively. All Directors are expected, where circumstances require it, to commit additional time as necessary to their work on the Board. For the year ended 31 December 2024 and as at the date of publication, the Board is satisfied that none of the Directors are over-committed and that each of the Directors allocates sufficient time to their role in order to discharge their responsibilities effectively. A record