At the annual shareholders' meeting on May 25, 2016, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main was elected as the independent auditor and Group auditor for the 2016 financial year. PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, was, in addition, appointed as independent auditor to review the condensed financial statements and the interim management report in the 2016 financial year.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, has declared to the Supervisory Board that there are no business, financial, personal or other relationships existing between them, their executive bodies, and audit managers on the one hand, and the company and the members of its executive bodies on the other, which may cast doubt on their impartiality.
