Audit of the financial statements
In the reporting period, the Supervisory Board proposed PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (“PwC”), Munich, as auditors of the financial statements; the Annual General Meeting endorsed its proposal. PwC provided MAN’s Audit Committee with confirmation of its independence. It was also agreed that the Chairman of the Audit Committee would be immediately informed of any grounds for disqualifying the auditors or questioning their impartiality that might occur during the audit, unless such grounds could be immediately eliminated.