Governance Information • Mar 26, 2009
Governance Information
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Joint Declaration of Compliance regarding the German Corporate Governance Code by the Management Board and the Supervisory Board in the 2009 financial year
The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of COLEXON Energy AG (the "Company") make the following Declaration of Compliance in accordance with Section 161 German Stock Corporation Act regarding the recommendations of the Government Commission of the German Corporate Governance Code and will ensure that it is published on the Company's website.
The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of OLEXON generally welcome the intention of the Government Commission of the German Corporate Governance Code to prescribe transparent guidelines in that they constitute valuable guiding principles and points of reference for proper corporate management. We will disclose and explain any deviations from the Code's recommendations in future Declarations of Compliance.
Now, therefore, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board of COLEXON declare that the Company has complied with the recommendations of the Government Commission of the German Corporate Governance Code, as amended 14 June 2007 and published by the Federal Ministry of Justice, since its most recent Declaration of Compliance and has also complied with the recommendations as amended 6 June 2008 from their effective date and will comply with them in the future. However, the following exceptions have applied or still apply:
The German Corporate Governance Code recommends:
preparing a remuneration report as part of the corporate governance report. COLEXON prepares the remuneration report as part of the management report. The German Corporate Governance Code also recommends disclosing the nature of the fringe benefits in the remuneration report. COLEXON has not followed this recommendation to date but will do so in the future. Furthermore, the German Corporate Governance Code recommends separately disclosing in the corporate governance report all remuneration that the Company has paid to the members of the Supervisory Board for personal services. COLEXON did not abide by this recommendation because these agreements were of secondary significance to the Company.
constituting Supervisory Board committees. COLEXON did not create separate Supervisory Board committees given the Company's size and the fact that the Supervisory Board comprised merely three members until the middle of 2008. On 24 March 2009, however, the Supervisory Board established an Audit Committee, a Nomination Committee and a Strategy Committee. The German Corporate Governance Code recommends considering committee chairmanships and memberships in the remuneration paid to Supervisory Board members. The Company intends to propose a corresponding change to the remuneration of
Hamburg, Germany, March 24, 2009
The Management Board The Supervisory Board
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