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Deutsche Post  Group —  Annual Report
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT
Annual Corporate Governance Statement pursuant to section  a
ofthe Handelsgesetzbuch ( – German Commercial Code)
is Annual Corporate Governance Statement contains information about the main components
of Deutsche Post  Group’s corporate governance structure. ese include the
Declaration of Conformity by the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board,
relevant corporate governance practices that exceed legal requirements, the working
methods of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board, the composition and
working methods of the committees, the percentage of women on the Supervisory
Board, Board of Management and in the top two executive tiers, and the composition
targets for the Supervisory Board.
Company in compliance with all recommendations of the German Corporate
GovernanceCode
In December , the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board once again
issued an unqualied Declaration of Conformity pursuant to section  of the AktG,
which reads as follows:
“e Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post  declare
that the recommendations of the Government Commission German Corporate Gov-
ernance Code in the version dated  June  have been complied with since issuance
of the Declaration of Conformity in December  and that all recommendations of
the code in the version dated  May  shall be complied with in the future.”
We also intend to implement the suggestions made in the code, with one exception:
the Annual General Meeting will only be broadcast on the internet up to the end of the
Chief Executive Ocer’s address.
Specific corporate governance practices
Our guiding principle is “respect and results”: we seek to encourage co-operation and
expect our corporate governance to rise to the challenge of achieving rst-class results
every day whilst also considering the needs of our employees, customers and investors.
We see corporate responsibility as part of our Group strategy and we concentrate
upon three focus areas: responsible business practice, corporate citizenship as well as
environmental management and shared value. We systematically factor our stakeholders’
expectations and needs into strategic decisions. A materiality analysis has identied key
issues relevant to Deutsche Post  Group from the areas of governance, employees
and the environment. Targets and performance indicators have been dened for each of
these topics. We successfully maintained our high scores in the best-known sustainabil-
ity ratings during the year under review.
Response levels for our annual Group-wide Employee Opinion Survey were down slightly
year-on-year at   :  . We made further improvements to the survey in the
year under review. e survey results are now almost fully comparable with an external
standard which we are currently exceeding in ve categories. Scores for the “Active
Leadership” and “Employee Engagement” categories stabilised at a high level.
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