Governance Information • Dec 29, 2023
Governance Information
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Management Board and Supervisory Board of Delivery Hero SE declare:
Delivery Hero SE (also the "Company") has complied since the publication of the last declaration of compliance in December 2022 with the recommendations of the Government Commission German Corporate Governance Code in the version dated April 28, 2022, published in the Federal Gazette on June 27, 2022 (the "GCGC"), with the exception of the recommendations listed below.
In addition, the Company will continue to comply with the recommendations of the GCGC in the future subject to the following deviations:

of the Management Board. Over the past years, the Supervisory Board has gained a comprehensive picture of Pieter-Jan Vandepitte's working methods, experience and knowledge. The Supervisory Board therefore believed that a first-time appointment for a period of more than three years was in the interests of the Company. Given that the first-time appointment of Pieter-Jan Vandepitte as a Management Board member continues in the financial year 2023, the Company declares, to that extent, a deviation regarding this recommendation.
Pursuant to Section G.1 indent 1, half-sentence 2 of the GCGC, the compensation system of the Management Board shall in particular specify the amount of total remuneration that may not be exceeded (maximum remuneration). In accordance with this recommendation, the Supervisory Board of the Company had resolved amendments to the compensation system for Management Board members and submitted this compensation system to the Annual General Meeting on June 16, 2021 for approval. Pursuant to Section 87a (1) sentence 2 no. 1 of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz, "AktG"), the compensation system provides for a maximum compensation which limits the total amount of compensation actually received for a given financial year. The maximum compensation for the Chair of the Management Board is set at € 12 million and for the ordinary members of the Management Board at € 9 million. The Management Board service agreements which are valid currently, until December 31, 2023, were already concluded prior to the introduction of Section 87a (1) sentence 2 no. 1 AktG and the Annual General Meeting on June 16, 2021, which voted on the Management Board compensation system, and do not contain a provision on maximum remuneration. Since such Management Board service agreements are grandfathered and the GCGC does not require any adjustment of current contracts, the

Company declares to that extent a deviation with regard to this recommendation of the GCGC.
The Supervisory Board has resolved a new compensation system for the members of the Management Board and submitted this compensation system to the Annual General Meeting on June 14, 2023 for approval. Pursuant to Section 87a (1) sentence 2 no. 1 AktG, this new compensation system also provides for a maximum compensation which limits the total amount of compensation actually received for a given financial year. The maximum compensation for the Chair of the Management Board is set at € 12 million and for the ordinary members of the Management Board at € 9 million. The Supervisory Board has entered into new Management Board service agreements with the members of the Management Board with effect from January 1, 2024. These Management Board service agreements contain the aforementioned provisions on maximum compensation. In this respect, the Company will comply with recommendation G.1, indent 1, halfsentence 2 of the GCGC in the financial year 2024.
Berlin, in December 2023
On behalf of the Supervisory Board The Management Board
Dr. Martin Enderle Niklas Östberg Emmanuel Thomassin
Pieter-Jan Vandepitte
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