The Supervisory Board shall form a Strategy Committee. The purpose of the Strategy Committee is to discuss strategy and corporate development and to prepare resolutions on strategic concerns by the Supervisory Board. In particular, these include basic issues of business policy and business strategy and the market position of the corporate divisions.

The Strategy Committee shall consist of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, the Deputy Chairman and four Supervisory Board shareholder representatives and four Supervisory Board employee representatives respectively. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board shall be the Chairman of the Strategy Committee.