If you, as an employee or business partner of our corporate group, suspect that our corporate group or a company in our group of companies or one of our employees is violating rules of conduct or regulations, in particular criminal regulations, we would be grateful for you to let us know. This will help us to uncover and remedy possible violations and grievances in order to protect our corporate group and our entire environment. You can provide your information anonymously. We follow up on all relevant information received through our internal reporting office and are expressly committed to protecting all those who provide information.

If you have any information under the Whistleblower Protection Act, our trusted lawyer Gabriele Gräfin von Reichenbach Freifrau von Thüngen is available to you as our company's internal reporting point. Your contact details are as follows:

Gabriele Countess von Reichenbach Baroness von Thüngen
Lawyer, lawyer of trust and internal reporting office in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act
Hinterer Glockenberg 12, 96450 Coburg
Tel. 09561 35 47 811, fax. 09561 35 47 812
office@von-thuengen.de  www.von-thuengen.de

You can also report your information to our trusted lawyer via the digital reporting portal - either by providing your name or completely anonymously. You can reach the digital reporting point of our trusted lawyer via the following link: https://mektec.digitales-tippsystem.de

There you will also find further information about maintaining confidentiality and the possibility of anonymous communication with our trusted lawyer.

In addition, we hereby inform you about the possibility of reporting to an external reporting office:

The Whistleblower Protection Act gives people who intend to submit a report the right to choose whether they contact an internal company reporting office or call an external federal or state reporting office. However, the Whistleblower Protection Act also stipulates that reports should be given to an internal body if this can be used to effectively combat the violation and if people who provide the whistleblower do not have to fear reprisals (Section 7 Para. 1 HinSchG).

External federal reporting offices have currently been set up

• at the Federal Office of Justice

• at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and

• at the Federal Cartel Office.

All information about the responsibilities of the external reporting offices and their accessibility can be found on the website of the Federal Office of Justice:

www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/MeldestelledesBundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html