Supervisory Board members received a ratable fixed remuneration for their services in 2007, depending on their length of service in the year under review. As in the previous year, the fixed remuneration for membership was €96 thousand per annum for the Chairman, €72 thousand for a Deputy Chairman and €48 thousand for each other member. In addition, membership of the Supervisory Board’s Strategy, Technology, Personnel, Nomination, Clearing and Settlement, and Audit and Finance Committees is remunerated: the additional remuneration is €30 thousand per annum for the Chairman of each Committee (€40 thousand per annum for the Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee) and €20 thousand per annum for each other member of each Committee. The members of the Nomination Committee have waived their entitlement to half of their remuneration for their work on the Committee in 2007.

Members of the Supervisory Board also receive annual variable remuneration on the basis of two different, clearly defined targets relating to the Company’s performance. Target 1: In the year in which remuneration is paid, the consolidated return on equity after taxes of Deutsche Börse Group must exceed by at least five percentage points the average of the monthly average current yields to maturity of domestic bearer bonds and public-sector bonds with a remaining maturity of more than nine to ten years as calculated by the Deutsche Bundesbank (Germany’s central bank). Target 2: Consolidated earnings per share for the previous two full financial years must exceed consolidated earnings per share for the previous year in each case by 8 percent or more. For each target met, the members of the Supervisory Board each receive annual variable remuneration in the amount of €16 thousand.

This concept has been in place since 1 January 2005. It superseded the variable remuneration concept which had been effective since 2003, under which the members of the Supervisory Board had received stock options from the phantom stock option plan with a term of five years and a target value of €40 thousand, free of charge, on 1 February each year. The phantom stock options granted under the phantom stock option plan up to financial year 2004 could be exercised for the first time in 2006.