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Meeting . A further meeting was held in February  to propose candidates for the Annual General
Meeting .
The statutory Mediation Committee (   of the Law on Worker Participation) was not required to con-
vene during the financial year .
The Chairman reported regularly and in depth at Supervisory Board meetings on the status of Presiding
Board and committee work.
Changes in composition and reorganisation of the Board of Management At its meeting on  March
, the Supervisory Board, in agreement with the Personnel Committee, appointed Ian Robertson as
member of the Board of Management with immediate effect. Mr. Robertson was appointed to the Board
with responsibility for Sales and Marketing after Stefan Krause left the Board of Management and the
company at his own request.
Ernst Baumann, who had been responsible for Human Resources and had held the post of Industrial
Relations Director since , retired from office on  November . The Supervisory Board thanked
Mr. Baumann for his  years of successful work for the BMW Group. Following the proposal of the Person-
nel Committee, the Supervisory Board appointed Harald Krüger as member of the Board of Manage-
ment for Human Resources and as Industrial Relations Director with effect from  December .
Dr. Michael Ganal, member of the Board of Management, passed away on  December  at the age of
 after a serious illness. Up to that point, Dr. Ganal had held Board responsibility for Finances. Dr. Friedrich
Eichiner, who had initially deputised on a temporary basis in agreement with Dr. Ganal, was officially given
responsibility for Finances on  December  as part of a Board reorganisation proposed by the Board
of Management and supported by the Personnel Committee. Dr. Ganal – whose return to work had been
hoped for until the end by the Board of Management, Supervisory Board and employees alike – had con-
sistently worked with great energy, discipline and diligence in the interests of the BMW Group, even during
his illness. The company is exceedingly indebted to him and will always remember him with high esteem.
The Group and Brand Development portfolio of tasks for which Dr. Eichiner was previously responsible
has been reallocated to the various Board members as part of a reorganisation of duties within the Board
of Management.
Changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board, Presiding Board and committees The names of
the members of the Supervisory Board committees appear in the Corporate Governance Report. Several
changes occurred in the composition of the Supervisory Board, Presiding Board and the Supervisory
Board’s committees during the financial year : Maria Schmidt, member of the Works Council for the
Dingolfing site, was officially appointed by the District Court of Munich on  March  as member of
the Supervisory Board in the role of employee representative. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hüttl, Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley
and Prof. Dr. Renate Köcher were newly elected to the Supervisory Board by the shareholders at the
Annual General Meeting on  May . The mandates of Arthur L. Kelly, Heinz-Joachim Neubürger and
Dr. Hans-Dietrich Winkhaus came to an end at the close of the Annual General Meeting on  May .
Mr. Konrad Gottinger resigned as member of the Supervisory Board with effect from  February .
The Supervisory Board would again like to thank all members leaving office for their dedicated and