Number of meetings of the Supervisory Board and its committees in financial year 2017
One Annual General Meeting and seven Supervisory Board meetings distributed over the reporting year were held in 2017. Five meetings of the Audit Committee were also held. The financial statement and consolidated financial statement auditor, KPMG Austria GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft (KPMG), attended four Audit Committee meetings and the Supervisory Board meetings in 2017 that also addressed auditing of the 2016 annual financial statements and the 2016 consolidated financial statements and formal approval of the 2016 annual financial statements, and also attended the Annual General Meeting. The Committee for Urgent Matters held two meetings in 2017. The Committee for Managing Board Matters held four meetings and the Nomination Committee held two. The Strategy Committee held one meeting in 2017; strategic matters were also handled by the entire Supervisory Board.
No member of the Supervisory Board attended less than half of the Supervisory Board meetings.