WashTec AG — Governance Information 2016

Dec 15, 2016

WashTec AG, Augsburg Declaration of Conformity under Section 161 AktG

The Management Board and Supervisory Board submitted the last Declaration of Conformity on December 15, 2015 and an update to that Declaration of Conformity on May 31, 2016.

The Management Board and Supervisory Board declare that from submission of the last Declaration of Conformity on December 15, 2015 to the updating of the Declaration of Conformity on May 31, 2016, WashTec AG complied without exception with the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code issued by the Government Commission of the German Corporate Governance Code and dated May 5, 2015. They further declare that since the updating of the Declaration of Conformity on May 31, 2016 the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code dated May 5, 2015 have been complied with and will be complied with in the future with the following exception:

The Annual General Meeting of the Company resolved on May 11, 2016 in accordance with Sections 286 (5) and 314 (2) sentence 2 HGB that for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2016 and for all subsequent fiscal years up to and including at the latest the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 the disclosures under Section 285 no. 9 a) sentences 5 to 8 and under Section 314 (1) no. 6 a) sentences 5 to 8 will not be made. The publication of information about the remuneration of individual Management Board members is refrained from accordingly, and therefore in departure from Section 4.2.5 paras. 3 and 4 of the Code, the information there referred to is not disclosed for each member of the Management Board and the model tables relating to Section 4.2.5 para. 3 of the Code are not used.

Augsburg, December 15, 2016 WashTec AG

Management Board and Supervisory Board

This English version of the Declaration of Conformity is a translation of the original German version. Sole authoritative and universally valid version is the original German language document.

Additional information about corporate governance can be found in the WashTec AG annual reports under the corporate governance report or the declaration of corporate management or on the Internet at www.washtec.de.