CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Supervisory Board regularly monitors the application and further development of the corporate governance
regulations within the company, in particular the implementation of the regulations of the Code. At the
meeting in February, we discussed in depth the introduction of a severance payment cap and the inclusion of
corresponding provisions in all new or extended Executive Board service contracts in the future. At the same
meeting, we furthermore decided to also include a cap on other minor benefits in all new or extended Executive
Board service contracts in the future, thus implementing a further recommendation of the Code. As Supervisory
Board elections had taken place in May 2014, at the February meeting we also discussed again and updated
the objectives the Supervisory Board had set for its composition in the 2013 calendar year. Additionally, we
included inter alia the objective that a woman must be represented on the Nomination Committee.