Other Information

The Board of Management respectively Supervisory Board are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the following components of the condensed management report, whose content was not audited:

•the Group’s nonfinancial statement, which is referred to in the condensed management report,

•the combined corporate governance statement for the Company and the Group which is referred to in the condensed management report, and,

•the information extraneous to management reports and marked as unaudited.

The other Information includes also the remaining parts of the annual report. The other Information does not include the consolidated financial statements, the condensed management report information audited for content and our auditor’s report thereon.

Our opinions on the consolidated financial statements and on the condensed management report do not cover the other information, and consequently we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit, our responsibility is to read the above-mentioned other information and, in so doing, to consider whether the other information

•is materially inconsistent with the consolidated financial statements, with the condensed management report information audited for content or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or

•otherwise appears to be materially misstated.