AG declare in accordance with Section Corporations Act (AktG) that the recommendations of the “Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code” in the version dated February 7, 2017 (published by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the official part of the electronic Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) on April 24, 2017; hereinafter “Code 2017”) were complied with, with the exceptions set out in Item 1, and further the recommendations of the “Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code” in the version dated December 16, 2019 (published by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the official section of the electronic Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) on March 20, 2020; hereinafter “Code 2020”), are being complied with, with the exceptions stated under Item 2.