The general meeting voted Dr. Stefan Jentzsch, member of the Executive Board of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich, to serve on the Supervisory Board. Jentzsch succeeds Dr. Norbert Juchem, who left the Management Board of Hypo-Vereinsbank as of December 31 and resigned from the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse as of the end of the annual general meeting. The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse will be newly elected as part of the regular term rotation at the annual general meeting in 2003.
Moreover, the annual general meeting approved an amendment to the Articles of Association. In the future, it will also be possible to take part in the annual general meeting and to cast votes ? to the extent legally permissible - via electronic or other media. Deutsche Börse said that it plans to broadcast its AGM on the Internet or via other electronic media in the future. The participation in the AGM and the exercise of voting rights or other rights of participation is also to be made possible directly via these media, as soon as the legal means are created for this. The Articles of Association are to take these new forms of communication into account.