Board of Management’s Responsibility for the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Board of Management of Daimler AG is responsible for the preparation of these consolidated financial statements. This responsibility includes preparing these consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU, and the additional requirements of German law pursuant to Section 315a (1) of the German Commercial Code (HGB), to give a true and fair view of the net assets, financial position and results of operations of the group in accordance with these requirements. The Board of Management is also responsible for the internal controls that the Board of Management determines are necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to
fraud or error.