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Audit of our Financial Statements 31.12.2011
To Whom It May Concern:
In connection with the audit of our financial statements 31.12.2011, we request that you provide
confirmation to our auditors
Ernst & Young GmbH
Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Mr. Thomas Geiseler
Friedrichstraße 140
10117 Berlin
Germany
on the status of our accounts maintained in your bank during the fiscal year as of 30.11.2011,
and in consideration of all interest and charges incurred as of this date. Please also state which
accounts were closed in the fiscal year prior to the balance sheet date.
Please send your reply directly to our auditors before 9.12.2011. We would greatly appreciate a
copy of your confirmation for our files.
We explicitly release you from your obligation of confidentiality towards our auditors with
respect to this confirmation.
Please include the following information in the confirmation:
1.
Overview of the accounts and sub-accounts, including account number (if applicable, date
when the account was closed out).
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2.
Status of the credit amounts in the accounts, including due date and any drawing
restrictions.
3.
Status of the debit accounts, including information on the interest and redemption
conditions and collateral provided.
4.
Nature, amount, and term of the lines of credit which we have been granted, including any
collateral pledged.
5.
Securities and other assets deposited in your bank, including information on any drawing
restrictions.
6.
Any checks or bills of exchange which have been submitted for collection and which you
have not yet credited.
7.
Commitments from discounted bills, including information on bills due as of the
aforementioned balance sheet date, but not submitted.
8.
The main provisions of each derivative (in particular nature, scope, term and the date of
maturity) which has been entered with you, but not yet settled (such as swaps, forward rate
agreements, financial futures, options, caps, floors and collars etc.).
In order to comply with the statutory reporting requirements pursuant to Sections 285 and
289 HGB and Sections 314 and 315 HGB [‘Handelsgesetzbuch': “German Commercial
Code”] and for the measurement of derivative financial instruments, please provide the data
and basis of measurement (in particular interest curves, volatilities and rates) if your
institute carried out the measurement.
9.
Warranties, guarantees or other securities to third parties provided by us to you, including
information on all claims filed, in so far as these are maintained by you on our behalf.
10. Warranties, guarantees, bank guarantees, acceptances and the like granted by you for our
account and at our risk, including information on all claims filed.
11. The amount of the commercial letters of credit which we have initiated, including the
amount used.
12. Names of persons with signatory power in conventional or electronic banking, including
information on whether individual or mutual signatory powers exist as well as information on
what their individual signatory power covers.
We ask you to respond to all of the points, even if this is to confirm that they do not apply, and
also to provide a declaration in your reply that we have no further credit balances or obligations.
Yours faithfully,