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A | To Our Shareholders | Report of the Supervisory Board
The Board of Management informed the Supervisory Board
with the use of monthly reports and risk reports about the most
important indicators of business development and existing
risks, and submitted the interim financial reports to the Super-
visory Board. Deviations from the planning were explained
in detail to the Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board was
kept fully informed of specific matters also between its meet-
ings. In addition, the Chairman of the Board of Management
informed the Chairman of the Supervisory Board in regular
discussions about important developments and consulted with
him on upcoming decisions. As required in individual cases,
following consultation with the Chairman of the Supervisory
Board, the members were requested to pass resolutions
in writing.
Topics discussed at the Supervisory Board meetings
in the year 2013. In a meeting in early February 2013, in the
presence of the external auditors, the preliminary key figures
of the annual company and consolidated financial statements
for 2012 and the dividend proposal to be made at the 2013
Annual Shareholders’ Meeting were discussed. The preliminary
key figures for the year 2012 were announced at the Annual
Press Conference on February 7, 2013.
In another meeting held in February 2013, the Supervisory
Board decided on the reappointment of Dr. Dieter Zetsche
and Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber and the changes in the Board
of Management responsibilities of Andreas Renschler
and Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, as described on page 18 under
“Personnel changes in the Board of Management.”
Also in this meeting, the Supervisory Board dealt with the
annual company financial statements, the annual consolidated
financial statements and the combined management report
for Daimler AG and the Daimler Group, each of which had been
issued with an unqualified audit opinion by the external
auditors, as well as the reports of the Audit Committee and
the Supervisory Board, the corporate governance report,
the remuneration report and the proposal on the appropriation
of distributable profit. In preparation, the members of the
Supervisory Board were provided with comprehensive docu-
mentation including the Annual Report with the consolidated
financial statements according to IFRS, the combined manage-
ment report for Daimler AG and the Daimler Group, the corpo-
rate governance report and the remuneration report, the annual
company financial statements of Daimler AG, the proposal of
the Board of Management on the appropriation of distributable
profit, and the audit reports of KPMG on the annual company
financial statements of Daimler AG and the consolidated finan-
cial statements, each including the combined management
report, as well as drafts of the reports of the Supervisory Board
and of the Audit Committee.
The Audit Committee and the Supervisory Board dealt with those
documents in detail and discussed them intensively in the
presence of the responsible external auditors, who reported
on the results of their audit and were available to answer
supplementary questions and to provide additional information.
Following the final results of the review by the Audit Com-
mittee and its own review, the Supervisory Board declared
its agreement with the results of the audit by the external
auditors; it determined that no objections were to be raised,
and approved the financial statements and the combined
man agement report as presented by the Board of Management.
The company financial statements of Daimler AG for the
year 2012 were thereby adopted. The Supervisory Board also
consented to the proposal made by the Board of Manage-
ment on the appropriation of distributable profit and approved
the report of the Supervisory Board, the corporate gover-
nance report and the remuneration report in their current drafts.
Finally, the Supervisory Board approved its proposed
decisions on the items of the agenda for the 2013 Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting.
Dr. Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board.