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DEUTZ AG - Investor Relations - Annual General Meeting - 2011
Our Company's next Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, 26 April 2012 in the Congress-Centrum Ost (main entrance on the eastern side), Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse, Cologne-Deutz, Germany. It will commence at 10am. ISIN: DE 000 630500 6WKN: 630 500
If you have any questions, please contact the DEUTZ shareholder service. Contact details: Tel.: +49 (0)221 822 2491Fax: +49 (0)221 822 152 491Email: stock.r@deutz.comDEUTZ AG
Roswitha StockShareholder service51057 CologneGermany
Convening of the meeting
I. AgendaPresentation of the adopted annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010 and the management report for DEUTZ AG, the approved consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010 and the group management report, the report of the Supervisory Board for the 2010 financial year, and the explanatory report of the Board of Management concerning the disclosures pursuant to section 289 (4), (5) and section 315 (4) German Commercial Code (HGB)On 9 March 2011, the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements prepared by the Board of Management were approved by the Supervisory Board in accordance with sections 172 and 173 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and the annual financial statements were thereby formally adopted. Formal adoption by the Annual General Meeting is therefore not required, i.e. AktG does not require the adoption of a resolution in this regard, but the annual financial statements and management report, consolidated financial statements and group management report, report of the Supervisory Board and the report of the Board of Management must be made available to the Annual General Meeting.Formal approval of the actions of the Board of Management for 2010The Board of Management and Supervisory Board propose the formal approval of the actions of the members of the Board of Management for 2010.Formal approval of the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2010The Board of Management and Supervisory Board propose the formal approval of the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board for 2010.Appointment of auditors for 2011On the recommendation of its Audit Committee, the Supervisory Board proposes that Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf, be appointed as auditors of the separate and consolidated annual financial statements for 2011. This appointment includes the auditors' review of the condensed financial statements and the interim management report for the period to 30 June 2011 pursuant to section 37w (5) sentence 1 German Securities Trading Act (WpHG).Elections to the Supervisory BoardMr Massimo Bordi stepped down from the Supervisory Board of DEUTZ AG with effect from 30 September 2010. By resolution dated 23 September 2010, at the request of the Board of Management and as recommended by the Nominations Committee of the Supervisory Board, the local court of Cologne appointed Dr Lodovico Bussolati to succeed Mr Bordi as a member of the Supervisory Board with effect from 1 October 2010.The Supervisory Board proposes, on recommendation of its Nominations Committee, that Dr Lodovico Bussolati, Chief Executive Officer of SAME DEUTZ-FAHR Group S.p.A., Treviglio (Italy) and resident in Brescia (Italy), be elected as a shareholders' representative on the Supervisory Board for the remaining term of office of the other members of the Supervisory Board, i.e. until the end of the Annual General Meeting that formally approves the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2012.Pursuant to section 96 (1) and section 101 (1) AktG in conjunction with section 6 (1) and section 7 (1) sentence 1 no. 1 German Codetermination Act (MitbestG), the Supervisory Board consists of 12 members, with 6 shareholder representatives and 6 employee representatives. The Annual General Meeting is not bound by the proposed nominations for election.Dr Bussolati is a not a member of any other statutory supervisory board.He is a member of the board of SAME DEUTZ-FAHR Italia S.p.A., Treviglio (Italy).II. Requirements for attendance at annual general meetings and the exercise of voting rightsTotal number of shares and voting rightsThe
issued capital of the Company amounting to €308,978,241.98 was divided into 120,861,783 no-par-value bearer shares on the date this Annual General Meeting was convened. Each share confers one vote. All the shares are of the same type. On the date this Annual General Meeting was
convened the Company held no treasury shares.Requirements for attendance at annual general meetings and the exercise of voting rightsOnly
those shareholders who have, prior to the Annual General Meeting, registered with the Company and provided proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights will be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights.The proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right must relate to such status as at 14 April 2011, 00.00 hours (the proof of entitlement reference date).
A specific proof of shareholding issued by the custodian in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB) will suffice as proof of entitlement.Registration
together with proof of entitlement in either German or English must reach the following registration office in writing or by electronic mail
(§ 126b BGB) by midnight on 28 April 2011 at the latest.Registration office:DEUTZ AGc/o Deutsche Bank AGSecurities ProductionGeneral MeetingsPostfach 20 01 0760605 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyFax: +49 (0) 69 12 01 28 60 45Email: WP.HV@Xchanging.comAdmission
cards for attendance at the Annual General Meeting will be sent to shareholders once the Company has seen proof of their shareholdings. We would ask shareholders to request an admission card from their custodian
as early as possible so that they receive their admission cards in good
time. In this case, the custodian will carry out the necessary registration and send the required proof of shareholding.Importance of the proof of entitlement reference dateThe
proof of entitlement reference date is the critical date regarding the number of persons with the right to attend and exercise voting rights at
the Annual General Meeting. Only those who have provided that they were
shareholders as at the proof of entitlement reference date qualify as shareholders of the Company who can participate in the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right. Changes in shareholdings after the proof of entitlement reference date are disregarded for this purpose. Regardless of possible proxies in the internal relationship between seller and acquirer, shareholders who have only acquired their shares after the reference date are therefore neither entitled to attend nor to
vote in the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders who have duly registered and provided the relevant proof are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights even if they have sold the shares after the proof of entitlement reference date. The proof of entitlement reference date has no effect on the marketability of shares and the date is of no relevance as far as any entitlement to dividends is concerned.Procedure for voting by proxyShareholders
who do not wish to attend the Annual General Meeting in person may elect to have their voting rights exercised by a proxy e.g. by a bank, shareholder association or by the voting proxy nominated by DEUTZ AG. In
this case too, registration and submission of the proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right is also
required as specified in no. 2.If a shareholder appoints more than one proxy, the Company is entitled to reject one or more of these proxies.The
issue or cancellation of proxies, together with the proof of authority,
must be submitted to the Company in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB). The proxy form produced by the Company may be used for the issue of a proxy. This form will be sent to shareholders together with admission cards.In cases where banks, shareholder associations or equivalent persons or entities within the meaning of section 135 (8) of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) are appointed as proxies and undertake to act in a business arrangement as proxies for shareholders and exercise their voting rights at the Annual General Meeting, the proxy must merely retain the proxy declaration in a verifiable form; this proxy declaration must be complete and must only contain declarations relating to the exercise of voting rights.An authorised proxy may provide proof of the issue of a proxy simply by presenting the proxy authorisation on the day of the Annual General Meeting to the persons checking attendance cards at the entrance to the meeting. Proof of the issue of a proxy may also be sent by postal mail, fax or email (hereinafter referred to as "communication channels") to the following address:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: Vollmacht.HV_2011@deutz.comThe
aforementioned communication channels may also be used if the proxy is to be issued by declaration to the Company; in this case, separate proof
of the issue of the proxy is not required.The cancellation of a
proxy already issued may also be submitted directly to the Company using the aforementioned communication channels.DEUTZ AG also offers shareholders who are unable to attend the Annual General Meeting in person the option of being represented at the Annual General Meeting by employees of the Company who will then act in accordance with the instructions of the shareholder concerned. If a shareholder appoints as a
proxy one of the proxies nominated by the Company for this purpose, the
shareholder must issue instructions to the proxy for the exercise of his/her voting rights. Unless these instructions are issued, the proxies
appointed by the Company will not represent the relevant votes. The persons nominated by the Company to act as proxies on behalf of shareholders are under an obligation to vote in accordance with the instructions from the shareholders concerned.The proxy form sent
to shareholders with the attendance card may also be used to authorise a
proxy nominated by the Company and to issue instructions to this proxy.
Proxy authorisations with instructions must be submitted in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB). Proxy authorisations with instructions must be received by midnight on 3 May 2011 by postal mail, fax or email at the following address:DEUTZ AGc/o Computershare HV-Services AGPrannerstrasse 880333 Munich, GermanyFax: +49 (0) 89 30 90 37 46 75Email: Vollmacht.HV_2011@deutz.comFurther
details on attending the Annual General Meeting and on issuing proxy authorisations and instructions will be sent to shareholders together with the attendance card.Agenda item requests, nominations for election, requests for information5.1 Requests for additions to the agenda submitted by a minority pursuant to section 122 (2) AktGShareholders
whose shareholdings together account for one twentieth or more of the issued capital or a proportion equivalent to €500,000 of the issued capital or more may request that items be added to the agenda and be duly published. Each new item must be accompanied by the reasons for the
item or a proposed resolution. The request must be submitted in writing
to the Board of Management of DEUTZ AG.The persons submitting the request must prove that they will have been the holders of shares for at least three months on the day of the Annual General Meeting and that they have continued to hold the shares until a decision on the request.Requests for additions to the agenda must be received by
the Company by midnight on 4 April 2011. Please send any such requests to the following address:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: stock.r@deutz.comUnless
they have already been published with the notice of the Annual General Meeting, any new additions to the agenda will be published on receipt of
the request without delay in the electronic German Federal Gazette and in media that can be assumed to distribute the information throughout the whole of the European Union. They will also be published on the DEUTZ AG website at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com and notified to shareholders.5.2 Counterproposals and nominations for election from shareholders in accordance with section 126 (1) and section 127 AktGAny shareholder is entitled to submit counterproposals to items on the agenda or nominations for elections.Counterproposals
to any proposal by the Board of Management and/or the Supervisory Board
for any particular item on the agenda must be submitted together with the reasons for the counterproposal to the following address by midnight
on 20 April 2011:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: stock.r@deutz.comCounterproposals to items on the agenda will be made available by the Company on the website of DEUTZ AG at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com
together with the name of the shareholder concerned, the reasons for the counterproposal and any comment by the management of the Company.The
Company may decline to make a counterproposal and the reasons for the counterproposal available on its website if one of the criteria for exclusion as specified by section 126 (2) AktG is deemed to be met, e.g.
because the counterproposal would lead to a decision by the Annual General Meeting that would be in contravention of the law or the Statutes. The reasons for a counterproposal do not need to be made available if the text amounts to more than 5,000 characters in total.The
aforementioned rules apply mutatis mutandis to any proposal by a shareholder concerning the election of members of the Supervisory Board or the appointment of auditors, although nominations for election do not
require a justification. The Board of Management does not have to make a
nomination for election available if the nomination does not include the name, profession and place of residence of the person proposed for election to the Supervisory Board or proposed as the auditor and, in the
case of nominations for election to the Supervisory Board, the nomination does not also include details of the nominee's membership of other statutory supervisory bodies.Shareholders are requested to
include proof of their status as a shareholder when they send in their counterproposal or nomination for election.Counterproposals – including those sent to the Company prior to the Annual General Meeting –
can only be submitted with legal effect at the Annual General Meeting itself. The same applies mutatis mutandis to election nominations. This does not affect the rights of any shareholder to submit counterproposals
or election nominations during the Annual General Meeting, even if they
have not been sent to the Company by the appointed deadline prior to the meeting.5.3 Shareholders' right to information pursuant to section 131 (1) AktGAt
the request of any shareholder at the Annual General Meeting, the Board
of Management must provide information on the affairs of the Company including the legal and business relationships with affiliated companies
as well as on the position of the Group and the entities included in the consolidated financial statements insofar as this is required for a proper assessment of the subject matter on the agenda and no right to refuse the information exists.Publication of information on the websiteThe following information is accessible on the Company's website at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com in accordance with section 124a AktG:This notice of the Annual General Meeting;Explanation as to why there is no voting on the subject matter under agenda item 1;The documents to be made available to the Annual General Meeting;The total number of shares and voting rights on the date of the notice of the Annual General Meeting;Any
requests from shareholders for additions to the agenda pursuant to section 122 (2) AktG received by the Company after the notice of the Annual General Meeting was issued;Any other pertinent information – such as counterproposals and election nominations received
from shareholders and further explanatory notes on the shareholder rights described under point 5 – will be made available on the Company's
aforementioned website.Information to be made availableThe
annual financial statements and management report, consolidated financial statements and group management report, report by the Supervisory Board and explanatory report by the Board of Management relating to the disclosures in accordance with section 289 (4) and section 315 (4), (5) HGB are available for inspection at the offices of DEUTZ AG, Ottostrasse 1, 51149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), from the date the Annual General Meeting is convened.
II. Requirements for attendance at annual general meetings and the exercise of voting rightsTotal number of shares and voting rightsThe issued capital of the Company amounting to €308,978,241.98 was divided into 120,861,783 no-par-value bearer shares on the date this Annual General Meeting was convened. Each share confers one vote. All the shares are of the same type. On the date this Annual General Meeting was convened the Company held no treasury shares.Requirements for attendance at annual general meetings and the exercise of voting rightsOnly those shareholders who have, prior to the Annual General Meeting, registered with the Company and provided proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights will be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights.The proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right must relate to such status as at 14 April 2011, 00.00 hours (the proof of entitlement reference date). A specific proof of shareholding issued by the custodian in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB) will suffice as proof of entitlement.Registration together with proof of entitlement in either German or English must reach the following registration office in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB) by midnight on 28 April 2011 at the latest.Registration office:DEUTZ AGc/o Deutsche Bank AGSecurities ProductionGeneral MeetingsPostfach 20 01 0760605 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyFax: +49 (0) 69 12 01 28 60 45Email: WP.HV@Xchanging.comAdmission cards for attendance at the Annual General Meeting will be sent to shareholders once the Company has seen proof of their shareholdings. We would ask shareholders to request an admission card from their custodian as early as possible so that they receive their admission cards in good time. In this case, the custodian will carry out the necessary registration and send the required proof of shareholding.Importance of the proof of entitlement reference dateThe proof of entitlement reference date is the critical date regarding the number of persons with the right to attend and exercise voting rights at the Annual General Meeting. Only those who have provided that they were shareholders as at the proof of entitlement reference date qualify as shareholders of the Company who can participate in the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right. Changes in shareholdings after the proof of entitlement reference date are disregarded for this purpose. Regardless of possible proxies in the internal relationship between seller and acquirer, shareholders who have only acquired their shares after the reference date are therefore neither entitled to attend nor to vote in the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders who have duly registered and provided the relevant proof are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights even if they have sold the shares after the proof of entitlement reference date. The proof of entitlement reference date has no effect on the marketability of shares and the date is of no relevance as far as any entitlement to dividends is concerned.Procedure for voting by proxyShareholders who do not wish to attend the Annual General Meeting in person may elect to have their voting rights exercised by a proxy e.g. by a bank, shareholder association or by the voting proxy nominated by DEUTZ AG. In this case too, registration and submission of the proof of entitlement to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise a voting right is also required as specified in no. 2.If a shareholder appoints more than one proxy, the Company is entitled to reject one or more of these proxies.The issue or cancellation of proxies, together with the proof of authority, must be submitted to the Company in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB). The proxy form produced by the Company may be used for the issue of a proxy. This form will be sent to shareholders together with admission cards.In cases where banks, shareholder associations or equivalent persons or entities within the meaning of section 135 (8) of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) are appointed as proxies and undertake to act in a business arrangement as proxies for shareholders and exercise their voting rights at the Annual General Meeting, the proxy must merely retain the proxy declaration in a verifiable form; this proxy declaration must be complete and must only contain declarations relating to the exercise of voting rights.An authorised proxy may provide proof of the issue of a proxy simply by presenting the proxy authorisation on the day of the Annual General Meeting to the persons checking attendance cards at the entrance to the meeting. Proof of the issue of a proxy may also be sent by postal mail, fax or email (hereinafter referred to as "communication channels") to the following address:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: Vollmacht.HV_2011@deutz.comThe aforementioned communication channels may also be used if the proxy is to be issued by declaration to the Company; in this case, separate proof of the issue of the proxy is not required.The cancellation of a proxy already issued may also be submitted directly to the Company using the aforementioned communication channels.DEUTZ AG also offers shareholders who are unable to attend the Annual General Meeting in person the option of being represented at the Annual General Meeting by employees of the Company who will then act in accordance with the instructions of the shareholder concerned. If a shareholder appoints as a proxy one of the proxies nominated by the Company for this purpose, the shareholder must issue instructions to the proxy for the exercise of his/her voting rights. Unless these instructions are issued, the proxies appointed by the Company will not represent the relevant votes. The persons nominated by the Company to act as proxies on behalf of shareholders are under an obligation to vote in accordance with the instructions from the shareholders concerned.The proxy form sent to shareholders with the attendance card may also be used to authorise a proxy nominated by the Company and to issue instructions to this proxy. Proxy authorisations with instructions must be submitted in writing or by electronic mail (§ 126b BGB). Proxy authorisations with instructions must be received by midnight on 3 May 2011 by postal mail, fax or email at the following address:DEUTZ AGc/o Computershare HV-Services AGPrannerstrasse 880333 Munich, GermanyFax: +49 (0) 89 30 90 37 46 75Email: Vollmacht.HV_2011@deutz.comFurther details on attending the Annual General Meeting and on issuing proxy authorisations and instructions will be sent to shareholders together with the attendance card.Agenda item requests, nominations for election, requests for information5.1 Requests for additions to the agenda submitted by a minority pursuant to section 122 (2) AktGShareholders whose shareholdings together account for one twentieth or more of the issued capital or a proportion equivalent to €500,000 of the issued capital or more may request that items be added to the agenda and be duly published. Each new item must be accompanied by the reasons for the item or a proposed resolution. The request must be submitted in writing to the Board of Management of DEUTZ AG.The persons submitting the request must prove that they will have been the holders of shares for at least three months on the day of the Annual General Meeting and that they have continued to hold the shares until a decision on the request.Requests for additions to the agenda must be received by the Company by midnight on 4 April 2011. Please send any such requests to the following address:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: stock.r@deutz.comUnless they have already been published with the notice of the Annual General Meeting, any new additions to the agenda will be published on receipt of the request without delay in the electronic German Federal Gazette and in media that can be assumed to distribute the information throughout the whole of the European Union. They will also be published on the DEUTZ AG website at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com and notified to shareholders.5.2 Counterproposals and nominations for election from shareholders in accordance with section 126 (1) and section 127 AktGAny shareholder is entitled to submit counterproposals to items on the agenda or nominations for elections.Counterproposals to any proposal by the Board of Management and/or the Supervisory Board for any particular item on the agenda must be submitted together with the reasons for the counterproposal to the following address by midnight on 20 April 2011:DEUTZ AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), GermanyFax: +49 (0) 221 82 21 52 49 1Email: stock.r@deutz.comCounterproposals to items on the agenda will be made available by the Company on the website of DEUTZ AG at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com together with the name of the shareholder concerned, the reasons for the counterproposal and any comment by the management of the Company.The Company may decline to make a counterproposal and the reasons for the counterproposal available on its website if one of the criteria for exclusion as specified by section 126 (2) AktG is deemed to be met, e.g. because the counterproposal would lead to a decision by the Annual General Meeting that would be in contravention of the law or the Statutes. The reasons for a counterproposal do not need to be made available if the text amounts to more than 5,000 characters in total.The aforementioned rules apply mutatis mutandis to any proposal by a shareholder concerning the election of members of the Supervisory Board or the appointment of auditors, although nominations for election do not require a justification. The Board of Management does not have to make a nomination for election available if the nomination does not include the name, profession and place of residence of the person proposed for election to the Supervisory Board or proposed as the auditor and, in the case of nominations for election to the Supervisory Board, the nomination does not also include details of the nominee's membership of other statutory supervisory bodies.Shareholders are requested to include proof of their status as a shareholder when they send in their counterproposal or nomination for election.Counterproposals – including those sent to the Company prior to the Annual General Meeting – can only be submitted with legal effect at the Annual General Meeting itself. The same applies mutatis mutandis to election nominations. This does not affect the rights of any shareholder to submit counterproposals or election nominations during the Annual General Meeting, even if they have not been sent to the Company by the appointed deadline prior to the meeting.5.3 Shareholders' right to information pursuant to section 131 (1) AktGAt the request of any shareholder at the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Management must provide information on the affairs of the Company including the legal and business relationships with affiliated companies as well as on the position of the Group and the entities included in the consolidated financial statements insofar as this is required for a proper assessment of the subject matter on the agenda and no right to refuse the information exists.Publication of information on the websiteThe following information is accessible on the Company's website at www.Investors-AnnualGeneralMeeting-2011.deutz.com in accordance with section 124a AktG:This notice of the Annual General Meeting;Explanation as to why there is no voting on the subject matter under agenda item 1;The documents to be made available to the Annual General Meeting;The total number of shares and voting rights on the date of the notice of the Annual General Meeting;Any requests from shareholders for additions to the agenda pursuant to section 122 (2) AktG received by the Company after the notice of the Annual General Meeting was issued;Any other pertinent information – such as counterproposals and election nominations received from shareholders and further explanatory notes on the shareholder rights described under point 5 – will be made available on the Company's aforementioned website.Information to be made availableThe annual financial statements and management report, consolidated financial statements and group management report, report by the Supervisory Board and explanatory report by the Board of Management relating to the disclosures in accordance with section 289 (4) and section 315 (4), (5) HGB are available for inspection at the offices of DEUTZ AG, Ottostrasse 1, 51149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), from the date the Annual General Meeting is convened. Explanation
Explanation of agenda items on which no vote will be heldThere will be no voting on item 1 on the agenda:On 9 March 2011, the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements prepared by the Board of Management were approved by the Supervisory Board in accordance with sections 172 and 173 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and the annual financial statements were thereby formally adopted. Formal adoption by the Annual General Meeting is therefore not required, i.e. AktG does not require the adoption of a resolution in this regard, but the annual financial statements and management report, consolidated financial statements and group management report, report of the Supervisory Board and the report of the Board of Management must be made available to the Annual General Meeting. The annual financial statements and management report, the consolidated financial statements and group management report, the report by the Supervisory Board and the report by the Board of Management will be available for inspection at the offices of DEUTZ AG, Ottostrasse 1, 51149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), and can also be accessed on the DEUTZ AG website at www.annualreport2010.deutz.com the date on which the Annual General Meeting is convened
The documents to be made available to the Annual General Meeting:The annual financial statements and management report, consolidated financial statements and group management report, report by the Supervisory Board and explanatory report by the Board of Management relating to the disclosures in accordance with section 289 (4) and section 315 (4), (5) HGB are available for inspection at the offices of DEUTZ AG, Ottostrasse 1, 51149 Cologne (Porz-Eil), from the date the Annual General Meeting is convened.Documents concerning Item 1 of the agenda:consolidated financial statements group management report report by the Supervisory Board report Explanatory statement by the Board of Management in connection with sections 289 (4) and 315 (4) HGBThe disclosures contained in the management report and group management report pursuant to sections 289 (4) and 315 (4) HGB relate to arrangements that May be significant in the success of any public takeover bid for DEUTZ AG. It is the opinion of the Board of Management that these arrangements are normal for publicly traded companies comparable with DEUTZ AGFinancial Statements and the management report DEUTZ AG 2010
are only available in German.. Requests for additions to the agenda
Requests for additions to the agenda submitted by a minority pursuant to section 122 (2) AktG:There are currently no requests for additions to the agenda for the 2011 Annual General Meeting.
Counterproposals and election nominations (including any responses from the management):On 19 April 2011 we received a counterproposal/election nomination from shareholder Volker Schaller, Stresemannstrasse 1, (Finkenberg), 51149 Cologne, Germany, relating to agenda item 5 of our Annual General Meeting, which is being held on 5 May 2011. The counterproposal reads as follows:"Volker Schaller (pensioner), 59 years oldTel.: +49 (0)2203 38288Stresemannstrasse 1 (Finkenberg)51149 ColognePostal address:Am Hochkreuz 7c/o Ruth Schaller51149 Cologne (Gremberghoven)Deutz AGInvestor RelationsOttostrasse 151149 Cologne (Porz-Eil)Dear Sir or MadamSince I own 925 shares in DEUTZ AG, I wish to exercise my right to stand as a candidate for election to the Supervisory Board. I believe that small shareholders are under-represented and that the membership of the Supervisory Board should include a small shareholder with engineering expertise. I followed a fairly circuitous route to qualify as an engineering draughtsman at the second attempt by studying as a mature student and taking a distance-learning course.Yours sincerelyVolker SchallerP.S.I am not a member of a supervisory board at any other company and enclose confirmation that I own 925 shares in DEUTZ AG."Response from the Supervisory Board"The Supervisory Board intends to retain its proposal that Dr Lodovico Bussolati be elected to the Supervisory Board of DEUTZ AG."Cologne, April 2011DEUTZ AGThe Board of ManagementOn 20 April 2011, we received two counterproposals from shareholder Wilm Diedrich Müller relating to agenda items 2 and 3 of our Annual General Meeting, which is being held on 5 May 2011. The counterproposals read as follows:Counterproposal relating to agenda item 2"From: Mr Wilm Diedrich Müller, 26340 Neuenburg/Bullenmeersbäke, Am Markt 3, Germany --To: DEUTZ, registered office in Cologne/Rhine--#####################################Counterproposal#####################################I have hereby requested that formal approval not be granted for the actions of any of the members of the Board of Management for 2010. The reason for my request is that, according to the invitation, no distribution of a dividend has been proposed. Aforementioned Müller."Counterproposal relating to agenda item 3"Date: 20 April 2010, 7:40pm Reykjavik-Casablanca-Dakar time#######################################################From: Mr Wilm Diedrich Müller, 26340 Neuenburg/Bullenmeersbäke, Germany --For information – presumably as a letter – to Kurhaus Dangast, registered office in 26316 Dangast/Jadebusen, An der Rennweide, Germany, as the email address is not known --To: DEUTZ, registered office in Cologne/Rhine, by email --######################################Counterproposal relating to agenda item 3 of the Annual General Meeting of the aforementioned company DEUTZ ######################################--I have hereby requested that formal approval not be granted for the actions of any of the members of the Supervisory Board for 2010. The reason for my request is that it is not unequivocally permitted to visit, sunbathe on, walk around on or swim at the private beach of the aforementioned Kurhaus without any clothes on, naked, i.e. including without wearing any swimwear. DEUTZ has clearly failed in its task to convince the aforementioned Kurhaus that it is right to expressly permit naked bathing at Kurhaus's beautiful private beach on Jadebusen bay. The Supervisory Board performed its supervisory duty inadequately and therefore under no circumstances does it deserve to have its actions formally approved. Aforementioned Mr Müller" Response from the management "The Board of Management and Supervisory Board will retain their proposals for agenda items 2 and 3."
Notice of Annual General Meeting of DEUTZ AG on 5 May 2011
Notice of Annual General Meeting of DEUTZ AG on 5 May 2011 (pdf)