Unless expressly permitted by law, Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in
München (hereinafter referred to as Munich Reinsurance Company or the Company) requires the authorisation
of the Annual General Meeting to buy back own shares. As the authorisation granted on 19 April 2006
expires in October 2007, it will be proposed to the Annual General Meeting that the Company be again
authorised to buy back own shares.
The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that the following resolutions be adopted:
a) The Company shall be authorised to buy back its own shares up to a total amount of 10% of the share capital
at the time the resolution is adopted. The authorisation may be exercised as a whole or in part
amounts, on one or more occasions and for one or more purposes by the Company, but also by dependent
Group companies or enterprises in which the Company has a majority shareholding, or by third parties for
its or their account. The shares acquired plus other own shares in the possession of the Company or attributable
to the Company in accordance with Sections 71 a ff. of the German Stock Companies Act shall at no
time amount to more than 10% of the share capital. The authorisation may not be used for trading in own
shares.
It shall run until 25 October 2008. The authorisation to buy back shares granted by the Annual General
Meeting on 19 April 2006 shall be cancelled as from the moment this new authorisation comes into effect.
b) The shares shall be acquired at the discretion of the Board of Management aa) via the stock exchange or
bb) via a public purchase offer to all shareholders or cc) via a solicitation to all shareholders to submit
offers (request to sell) or dd) via a public offer to all shareholders to exchange Munich Re shares for shares
in another listed company as defined in Section 3 para. 2 of the German Stock Companies Act. In cases
bb), cc), and dd), the provisions of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act shall be observed
where applicable.
aa) If the shares are bought back via the stock exchange, the purchase price (excluding incidental
expenses) may not exceed by more than 10% or undercut by more than 20% the arithmetic mean of the
closing price in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor system) on the Frankfurt stock exchange
determined for Company shares with the same securities reference number on the last three days of
trading prior to the commitment to purchase.
bb) If the shares are bought back via a public purchase offer, the purchase price per share or the upper and
lower limits of the price range (excluding incidental expenses) may not exceed or undercut by more
than 20% the arithmetic mean of the closing price for Company shares with the same securities reference
number in the closing auction in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor system) on the Frankfurt
stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date on which the offer is published.
If after a public purchase offer there are significant deviations in the relevant share price, the
offer may be adjusted. In this case, the basis for determining the purchase price or the purchase price
range will be the arithmetic mean of the closing price for Company shares with the same securities reference
number in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor system) on the Frankfurt stock exchange
on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the public announcement of the adjustment. The volume
may be restricted. If the offer is oversubscribed, acceptance shall be based on quotas. For this, the
Company may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to 100 shares tendered per
shareholder). The purchase offer may provide for further conditions.
cc) If the Company publicly solicits submission of offers to sell Munich Reinsurance Company shares, the
Company may in its solicitation state a purchase price range within which offers may be submitted. The
solicitation may provide for a submission period, terms and conditions, and the possibility of adjusting
the purchase price range during the submission period if after publication of the solicitation significant
share price fluctuations occur during the submission period. Upon acceptance, the final purchase price
shall be determined from all the submitted sales offers. The purchase price (excluding incidental
expenses) for each Company share may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the average closing
price of Company shares in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor system) during the last five trading days prior to the relevant date. The relevant date shall be the date on which the offers are accepted
by the Company. If the number of Company shares offered for sale exceeds the total volume of shares
the Company intended to acquire, acceptance shall be based on quotas. Furthermore, the Company
may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to 100 shares tendered per shareholder).
dd) In the case of a public offer to exchange Munich Re shares for shares in another listed company
("exchange shares") as defined in Section 3 para. 2 of the German Stock Companies Act, a certain
exchange ratio may be specified or also determined by way of an auction procedure. A cash benefit
may also be provided for as an additional payment to the exchange offered or as compensation for any
fractional shares. In each of these procedures for the exchange of shares, the exchange price or the
applicable top and bottom end of the price range in the form of one or more exchange shares and calculated
fractional amounts, including any cash or fractional amounts (excluding incidental expenses),
may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the relevant value of Munich Re shares.
The basis for calculating the relevant value of each Munich Re share and of each exchange share shall
be the respective arithmetic mean closing price in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor system)
on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date on which the
exchange offer is published. If the exchange shares are not traded in the Xetra trading system on the
Frankfurt stock exchange, the basis shall be the closing prices quoted on the stock exchange having the
highest average trading volume in respect of the exchange shares in the course of the preceding calendar
year. If after a public exchange offer there are significant deviations in the relevant share price, the
offer may be adjusted. In this case, the basis for the adjustment shall be the arithmetic mean closing
price on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date of the public announcement of the adjustment.
The volume may be restricted. If the exchange offer is oversubscribed, acceptance shall be based
on quotas. For this, the Company may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to
100 shares tendered per shareholder). The exchange offer may provide for further conditions.
c) The Board of Management shall be empowered to use shares acquired on the basis of the aforementioned
or previously granted authorisations or in accordance with Section 71 d sentence 5 of the German Stock
Companies Act for all legally admissible purposes, and in particular as follows:
aa) They may be used for launching the Company's shares on foreign stock exchanges where they are not
yet listed.
bb) They may be sold directly or indirectly in return for non-cash payment, in particular as part of offers to
third parties in connection with mergers or acquisitions of companies or parts of companies, shareholdings
or assets connected with such investments. Selling in this connection may also include the
granting of conversion or subscription rights or of warrants and the transferring of shares in conjunction
with securities lending.
cc) They may be sold to third parties for cash other than via the stock exchange or via an offer to all shareholders.
dd) They may be offered for subscription to the holders of conversion rights or warrants issued by the
Company or one of its dependent Group companies.
ee) They may be offered as employee shares to staff of the Company or of enterprises affiliated with the
Company within the meaning of Section 15 ff. of the German Stock Companies Act.
ff) They may be retired without a further resolution of the Annual General Meeting being required. Any
retirement may be limited to a portion of the bought-back shares. The Board of Management may
determine that the shares can also be retired in a simplified process, without reducing the share capital,
by adjusting the proportion of the Company's share capital represented by each of the remaining nopar-
value shares. In this case, the Board of Management shall be authorised to adjust the number of
no-par-value shares in the Articles of Association.
d) The price at which the shares are launched on other stock exchanges in accordance with item c) aa) or sold
in accordance with item c) cc) may not significantly undercut the stock price determined for Company
shares with the same securities number in the opening auction in Xetra trading (or a comparable successor
system) on the Frankfurt stock exchange (excluding incidental costs) on the day the shares are launched or
the binding agreement with the third party is concluded. In addition, in these cases the sum of the shares
sold, together with any shares that may be issued or sold during the term of this authorisation by excluding
the shareholders' subscription rights, directly or indirectly pursuant to Section 186 para. 3 sentence 4
of the German Stock Companies Act, may not exceed a total of 10% of the share capital at the time the
shares are issued or sold or are to be issued.
e) The authorisations in accordance with item c) above may be utilised one or more times, partially or wholly,
individually or jointly; the authorisations in accordance with item c) bb), cc), dd) or ee) may also be utilised
by dependent Group companies or enterprises in which the Company has a majority shareholding, or
utilised for its or their account by third parties.
f) Shareholders' subscription rights in respect of these bought-back shares shall be excluded insofar as the
shares are used in accordance with the authorisations in items c) aa), bb), cc), dd) or ee). Beyond this, if
bought-back shares are sold via an offer to the shareholders, the Board of Management shall be entitled to
exclude shareholders' subscription rights insofar as this is necessary to grant subscription rights to the
bearers of Company or Group-company convertible bonds or bonds with warrants to the extent to which
such bearers would be entitled as shareholders after exercising their warrants or after the conversion
requirements from such bonds have been satisfied.