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• Corporate Governance Codex
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• Shareholders and shareholders’ meeting
• Interaction between the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board
• Board of Management
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• Accounting and auditing
• Declaration of Compliance
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2. Shareholders and Shareholders’ Meeting

• 2.1 Shareholders
  • 2.1.1 The shareholders exercise their rights at the Shareholders’ Meeting and are entitled to cast their votes at the meeting.
  • 2.1.2 Each share in the limited partners’ capital amounting to € 100 grants one vote. There are no shareholdings with multiple voting rights or preferential voting rights, and maximum voting rights.

• 2.2 Shareholder’s Meeting
  • 2.2.1 The Board of Management of Lekkerland AG submits to the Shareholders’ Meeting the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements for the previous year. The meeting decides on the appropriation of the profit and on the approval of the actions of Lekkerland AG and on the discharge of its Board of Management and of the Supervisory Board of the company and appoints the auditors. The members of the Supervisory Board of the company are appointed by the shareholders.
    Furthermore, the Shareholders’ Meeting resolves on the amendments to the memorandum of association and essential corporate measures such as in particular company agreements, disposal of significant parts of the enterprise and reorganizations, and on significant purchases relating to companies and shareholdings.
  • 2.2.2 Each shareholder is entitled to take part in the Shareholders’ Meeting, to make statements there on matters relating to the agenda for the meeting and to submit relevant factual questions and proposals.
  • 2.2.3 The Chairman of the Shareholders’ Meeting is responsible for ensuring that the meeting proceeds efficiently. The Chairman should be guided by the fact that an ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting comes to an end at the latest after 4 to 6 hours.

• 2.3 Invitation to the Shareholders' Meeting
  The ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting is convened by the Board of Management of Lekkerland AG twice a year – for the first time at the latest during the course of May, and for the second time at the latest during the course of December – and details of the agenda for the meeting should be circulated. Each limited partner and the Supervisory Board of the company are entitled to convene a Shareholders’ Meeting for good cause. The Board of Management of Lekkerland AG sends each shareholder the necessary documents required for passing resolutions together with the invitation. Together with the invitation to the first ordinary General Meeting, each shareholder receives an adequate number of copies of the report drawn up by the auditor on the audit of the annual financial statements for the prior financial year.