AUDIT COMMITTEE

Members:
Robert Weidinger (Chairman), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lopatta, Petra Winter, Frank Suwald

The audit committee concerns itself with the monitoring of the accounting process, the effectiveness of the internal control system, the risk management system and the internal auditing system, and auditing of financial statements, in the latter case especially with regard to the choice of auditor and their independence and the additional services rendered by the auditor, the awarding of the audit engagement to the auditor, the determination of key audit matters and the fee agreement. It is also responsible for approving the permissible non-audit services to be rendered by the auditor. It also concerns itself with compliance-related issues and non-financial reporting/ESG.