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Report of the Supervisory Board
In the year under review, the Supervisory Board thoroughly
examined E.ON's situation. The E.ON AG Board of Manage-
ment regularly provided us with timely and comprehensive
information. We continually monitored the management of
the Company and advised the Board of Management.
At the Supervisory Board's three regular meetings and four
extraordinary meetings in 2007, we discussed in depth all
issues relevant to E.ON. Between meetings, the Board of
Management provided the Supervisory Board with written
reports on business transactions of key importance to E.ON.
Furthermore, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board was
informed on an ongoing basis about all significant business
transactions as well as the development of key financial
?figures.
Corporate Strategy and Planned Acquisitions
and Disposals
An important topic of our discussions was the package of
strategic initiatives, announced in May 2007, for the further
development of the E.ON Group. The package's main ele-
ments were:
· business management and organizational structure
· growth investments
· climate protection and customer orientation
· earnings growth
· financial strategy.
The Board of Management provided us with comprehensive
information about how further optimizing the way E.ON
manages its businesses would enable it to seize the oppor-
tunities created by the ongoing integration of Europe's
?energy markets, improve its operating performance, pursue
ambitious climate-protection objectives, sustainably enhance
earnings, and achieve and actively manage a significantly
more efficient capital structure. The Board of Management
also presented a substantial investment program to ensure
that E.ON continues to grow and enhance value well into
the future.
Furthermore, the Board of Management informed us about
the latest developments in E.ON's initial plan, which was to
acquire all of Spanish energy utility Endesa, and about the
agreement it subsequently reached with Enel and Acciona
under which it will acquire an extensive portfolio of assets,
with operations primarily in Spain, Italy, and France.
Other important topics of our discussions and resolutions
were the activities surrounding E.ON's entry into the Russian
electricity market and the systematic expansion of its renew-
ables operations. The Board of Management provided us with
detailed information, in particular about the privatization of
the Russian electricity market and the acquisition of OGK-4,
a Russian power producer, as well as the purchase of wind-farm
operators in Europe and North America.
In addition, the Board of Management reported in detail
about a variety of strategically relevant projects, in particular
natural gas storage projects in Austria and Germany, the
acquisition of gas production licenses in the Norwegian North
Sea, the planned acquisition of a stake in the Siberian natu-
ral gas field Yushno Russkoye, the participation in the
construc?tion of the Skanled gas pipeline in Northern
Europe, and the disposal of E.ON's stake in RAG. We were also
informed about the planned acquisition of Statkraft's 44.6-
percent stake in E.ON Sverige.
Energy Policy and Regulatory Environment
The Board of Management provided us with detailed infor-
mation about developments in the policy and regulatory
environment of the electricity and gas industries. We dealt
extensively with the relevant legislative and regulatory
processes and their effects on our markets and the E.ON
Group. Key topics were:
· the European Union's comprehensive package of energy-
policy proposals
· the European Union's climate policy and the develop-
ment of the EU-wide emissions trading scheme ("ETS"),
including Germany's national allocation plan for phase
two of the ETS
· the Commission's third package of internal energy ?mar-
ket legislation, including the proposed unbundling of
network operations
· the network charge approvals processes of the German
Federal Network Agency
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