Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ Any mem­ber of the board of dir­ect­ors may re­quest in­form­a­tion on any com­pany busi­ness.

² At meet­ings, all mem­bers of the board of dir­ect­ors and all per­sons en­trus­ted with man­aging the com­pany’s busi­ness are ob­liged to give in­form­a­tion.

³ Out­side meet­ings, any mem­ber may re­quest in­form­a­tion from the per­sons en­trus­ted with man­aging the com­pany’s busi­ness con­cern­ing the com­pany’s busi­ness per­form­ance and, with the chair­man’s au­thor­isa­tion, spe­cif­ic trans­ac­tions.

⁴ Where re­quired for the per­form­ance of his du­ties, any mem­ber may re­quest the chair­man to have books of ac­count and doc­u­ments made avail­able to him for in­spec­tion.

⁵ If the chair­man re­fuses a re­quest for in­form­a­tion, a re­quest to be heard or an ap­plic­a­tion to in­spect doc­u­ments, the board of dir­ect­ors rules on the mat­ter.

⁶ Rul­ings or res­ol­u­tions of the board of dir­ect­ors con­fer­ring on the dir­ect­ors more ex­tens­ive rights to ob­tain in­form­a­tion or in­spect doc­u­ments are re­served.