DB AG as the parent company of DB Group

In addition to the report on DB Group, the development of DB AG is explained below. As the parent company of DB Group, DB AG produces its annual financial statements in accordance with the principles of the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG). There are no separate steering-related performance figures, and no separate sustainability indicators for the parent company DB AG. For this reason, the statements provided for DB Group apply to DB AG as well.