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Please find page 113 of the 2014 DHL annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.e Finance and Audit Committee met seven times. Following Hero Brahms’ resignation, both Stefan
Schulte, Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee since May , and Simone Menne, also a mem-
ber of the Finance and Audit Committee since May , have the accounting and auditing expertise
required under the Aktiengesetz (AktG – German Stock Corporation Act). At the March meeting, the
Committee examined the annual and consolidated nancial statements for and recommended that
the Supervisory Board approve the statements. e auditors attended the meeting and gave a detailed
presentation on their ndings regarding the key audit priorities for as dened by the Committee
and made specic recommendations based on their ndings. Following the , the Finance and Audit
Committee engaged the auditors to audit the annual and consolidated nancial statements and the
interim nancial report for the rst half of the year. e Committee also dened the key audit priorities.
e Committee discussed the reviewed quarterly and half-year interim reports together with the Board
of Management and the auditors prior to publication. e March meeting also examined recommen-
dations to the Supervisory Board regarding the agenda of the and its proposed resolutions. Key
Group risk management factors were also examined during the meeting as planned. At the Finance and
Audit Committee meeting on June , the Committee listened to a presentation on the ndings of
internal audits and discussed measures to implement the auditors’ recommendations on the key audit
priorities. At the Finance and Audit Committee meeting on September , the Chief Compliance
Ocer presented a detailed report on compliance. e report focused primarily on enhancing com pliance
organisation and management. e Finance and Audit Committee advised the Super visory Board to
transfer responsibility for activities to the Strategy Committee. e Committee also examined the
investment strategy for pension assets. On December , the Finance and Audit Committee meet-
ing concentrated on the Group business plan for and recommended that the Supervisory Board
approve the plan. e Committee discussed the Group’s performance and the internal control and risk
management system at regular inter vals during the year. e Committee discussed the appropriateness
of the Group’s accounting system with the auditors.
e Strategy Committee met twice in and focused primarily on the progress made on imple-
menting Strategy , as well as how to develop and implement Strategy .
e Nomination Committee met once in to discuss nominations for the and approve
the recommendations made to the Supervisory Board. Here, discussions covered the re-election of
Henning Kagermann, Ulrich Schröder and Stefan Schulte and the nomination of Simone Menne for
membership of the Supervisory Board.
e Mediation Committee formed pursuant to section of the Mitbestimmungsgesetz (German
Co-determination Act) met once in .
e chairs of the committees reported on the committees’ deliberations in the subsequent Supervisory
Board meeting.
Changes to the composition of the Supervisory Board and Board of Management
Having reached the upper age limit for oce, Hero Brahms stepped down as a member of the Super-
visory Board at the end of the on May . e elected Simone Menne as a shareholder
representative on the Supervisory Board. At the extraordinary meeting held immediately aer the ,
the Supervisory Board voted to appoint Stefan Schulte as chair and Simone Menne as a member of the
Finance and Audit Committee. Details of the current members of the Supervisory Board committees can
be found on page . With regard to the employee representatives, Heinrich Josef Busch, the execu -
tive management representative, resigned from the Supervisory Board as of November , on the
grounds that he would reach retirement age at the end of the year. Jörg von Dosky was appointed by the
court as his successor on the Supervisory Board on December . e composition of the Board of
Management changed as follows during the year under review: Bruce Edwards stepped down from the
Board of Management on March . He was replaced by John Gilbert, who became a member of the
Board of Management on March . Angela Titzrath stepped down from the Board of Management
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