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A | To Our Shareholders | Report of the Supervisory Board
Audit of the 2013 company and consolidated financial
statements. The financial statements of Daimler AG and the
combined management report for the Company and the
Group for 2013 were duly audited by KPMG AG, Wirtschafts-
prüfungsgesellschaft, Berlin, and were given an unqualified
audit opinion. The same applies to the consolidated financial
statements for 2013 prepared according to IFRS.
In the presence of the auditors in a meeting in early February
2014, the Supervisory Board discussed the preliminary key
figures of the annual company and consolidated financial state-
ments for 2013 and the dividend proposal to be made at the
2014 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. The preliminary key figures
for the year 2013 were announced at the Annual Press
Conference on February 6, 2014.
In the meeting on February 18, 2014, the Supervisory Board
dealt with the annual company financial statements, the annual
consolidated financial statements and the combined manage-
ment report for Daimler AG and the Daimler Group, each of which
had been issued with an unqualified audit opinion by the exter-
nal 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 Super-
visory Board were provided with comprehensive documentation
including the Annual Report with the consolidated financial
statements according to IFRS, the combined management report
for Daimler AG and the Daimler Group, the corporate gover-
nance 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, the
audit reports of KPMG on the annual company financial
statements of Daimler AG and the consolidated financial state-
ments, 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 informa-
tion. 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,
determined that no objections were to be raised, and approved
the financial statements and the combined management
report as presented by the Board of Management. The company
financial statements of Daimler AG for the year 2013 were
thereby adopted. Furthermore, Supervisory Board consented
to the proposal made by the Board of Management on the
appropriation of distributable profit and approved the report
of the Supervisory Board, the corporate governance 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 2014 Annual Shareholders’
Meeting.
Appreciation. The Supervisory Board thanks all of the
employees and the management of the Daimler Group for their
personal contributions to the successful year 2013. Special
thanks are due to a longstanding member of the Supervisory
Board, Lynton R. Wilson, who stepped down at the end of
the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in 2013 after many years of
exceptional personal commitment to the Group. With all best
wishes for the future, the Supervisory Board also expresses its
warmest thanks to the departed members, Prof. Dr. Heinrich
Flegel, Dr. Thomas Klebe, Ansgar Osseforth and Uwe Werner,
for their committed efforts in the Supervisory Board.
Stuttgart, February 2014
The Supervisory Board
Dr. Manfred Bischoff
Chairman