Bayer Sustainable Development Report 2005 Outlook

Outlook

More consistent exploitation of sustainability potential

In addition to the continuation of our activities in the areas of supplier management and stakeholder dialogue, we aim to more intensively concentrate on the global exploitation of sustainability potential in our subgroups in the next two years. Many of our products in the HealthCare, CropScience and MaterialScience subgroups already make a valuable contribution to sustainable development. Our goal for the next two years is to systematically support and further develop products that have strong potential through research collaborations and partnerships. We hope this will enable us to achieve good ratings from analysts and investors for whom the future orientation of companies has become a key factor. After all, another goal of Bayer is to continue to be represented in sustainability indices and funds.

Central milestones and targets can be found on "our road". It describes the direction in which we are headed through the year 2010.