Includes lease payments for use of company car and insurance premiums (excluding D&O). Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels’ fringe benefits include additional benefits for chauffeur services. Thomas Ebeling’s fringe benefits include additional benefits for chauffeur services and flights home.

In addition to remuneration as members of the Executive Board, Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels, Dr. Ralf Schremper and Jan David Frouman were paid amounts from multi-year variable compensation in the financial year 2016 due to rights from the period before commencing their work as Executive Board members.

In addition to adjustments to performance share units granted for anti-dilution protection for a superdividend (1.23) and to the conversion factor (102.7 %), the payment for the Group Share Plan 2012 also includes the individual increase by the Supervisory Board (17.5 %) measured in accordance with the terms and conditions of the plan with a share price as of the date the conversion factor was determined.

Pension cost comprises service cost in accordance with IAS 19. In the case of Dr. Ralf Schremper and Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels, this comprises past service costs for 2015 and past service costs for 2016 in the case of Jan David Frouman and Christof Wahl as a result of pension commitments granted during the year.

In accordance with the termination agreement from his previous executive contract, Christof Wahl received EUR 100,000 which are deducted from his fixed remuneration.

Axel Salzmann left the Executive Board effective March 31, 2015; his employment contract ended effective March 31, 2015. The fixed and annual variable compensation shown relates to January to March 2015; the pension cost relates to the financial year 2015 as a whole.