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Company in compliance with all recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code
In December , the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board submitted an unquali-
 ed Declaration of Conformity pursuant to section  of the AktG and published it on the company’s
website.  e declarations from previous years can also be viewed on this website. In  nancial year ,
Deutsche Post  complied with all recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code as
amended on  May .  e company plans to continue complying with the recommendations of
the code as amended on  May .  e Corporate Governance Report (page   .) contains further
information on corporate governance within the company as well as the remuneration report.
Annual and consolidated fi nancial statements audited
 e auditors appointed by the , PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellscha Wirtscha s prü-
fungsgesellscha , Düsseldorf, (PwC) audited the annual and consolidated  nancial statements for  nan-
cial year , including the respective management reports, and issued unquali ed audit opinions. PwC
also conducted the review of the quarterly  nancial reports and the interim report for the  rst half of
the year.
Following a detailed preliminary assessment by the Finance and Audit Committee, the Supervisory
Board reviewed the annual and consolidated  nancial statements and the management reports for  nan-
cial year  at the  nancial statements meeting held on  March .  e review included the Board
of Management’s proposal for the appropriation of the unappropriated surplus.  e auditors’ reports
were made available to all Supervisory Board members and were discussed in detail with the Board of
Management and the auditors in attendance.  e Supervisory Board concurred with the results of the
audit and approved the annual and consolidated  nancial statements for  nancial year . Based on the
 nal outcome of the examination of the annual and consolidated  nancial statements, on the manage-
ment reports and on the proposal for the appropriation of the unappropriated surplus by the Supervisory
Board and the Finance and Audit Committee, there are no objections to be raised.  e Supervisory Board
endorses the Board of Management’s proposal for the appropriation of the unappropriated surplus and
the payment of a dividend of  . per share.
We would like to thank the Board of Management and all the employees of the Group for their par-
ticularly hard work in the past year.  e Supervisory Board is con dent that the company is very well
prepared for the future.
Bonn,  March 
 e Supervisory Board
Wulf von Schimmelmann
Chairman
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