Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance issues are receiving ever more attention and are being discussed by the general public. Daimler supports the various initiatives which are intended to improve Corporate Governance. Our company has been practising many of the principles arising from these initiatives for a long time.
As a globally oriented company we are particularly interested in aligning the Daimler Corporate Governance system internationally and making it transparent. The information given here aims to enhance this transparency.
Corporate Governance News
In the December meetings the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board approved the declaration of compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code pursuant to paragraph 161 of the German Stock Corporation Act. In regard to the areas of responsibility of the Supervisory Board and the Presidential Committee in remuneration issue the rules of procedure of the Supervisory Board and its Committees were updated following the German Act on the Appropriateness of Executive Remuneration (VorstAG) and the update of the German Corporate Governance Code 2009. Additionally, the rules of procedure for the Audit Committee have been actualised in regard to the German Accounting Law Modernization Act (BilMoG).
New: Please find for your additional information the text of the German Corporate Governance Code (from June 18, 2009) amended with comments on the compliance of Daimler AG with the recommendations and suggestions of the Code. For more information on corporate governance practices please refer to the Corporate Governance Statement.
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Information on the Supervisory Board and the Board of Management. Overview on the topic Shareholders and General Meeting. | |
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Declaration by the Board of Management and Supervisory Board of the company of compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code. | |
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Share transactions according to section 15a Securities Trading Act (WpHG). | |
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Overview on the financial communication and duty to inform about the company. | |
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Latest release of "Memorandum and Articles of Incorporation". | |
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Rules of Procedure of the Supervisory Board and the Board of Management |
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Guidelines, Principles and Codes of the company. | |
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Information on the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act enacted in the U.S. in July 2002. | |
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with supplementary Comments by Daimler AG on the Compliance with Recommendations and Suggestions (pdf-file, 125 kB) | |
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Declaration by the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG pursuant to Section 161 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) regarding the German Corporate Governance Code as amended on June 18, 2009 | |
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