2. Stability and availability of the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting / disclaimer

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1 Terms and conditions of use and notes on notification of attendance (online) at the 2018 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Siemens AG and for live transmission of the 2018 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Siemens AG on the Internet 1. Scope of application These terms and conditions of use and notes apply to all shareholders using the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders Meeting 2018 of Siemens AG, available at for notification of attendance, ordering admission tickets, absentee voting online, appointment of a proxy and submission of voting instructions or changes thereof. They also apply to all shareholders who follow the live transmission of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on the Internet. 2. Stability and availability of the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting / disclaimer The technical and organizational measures we have taken to ensure the availability and performance of our Internet Service as well as data security comply with the state of the art. However, given the current state of the art, fluctuations and disruptions may still occur in the availability, performance, stability, and reliability of our Internet Service. Neither Siemens AG nor the service providers it commissions nor the proxy representatives of Siemens AG nor credit institutions nor shareholders' associations appointed by you nor persons, institutions and companies of equal status pursuant to Section 135 (8) or Section 135 (10) in conjunction with Section 125 (5) of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) (hereinafter also referred to together as "credit institutions and/or shareholders' associations") have control over the availability, performance, stability, and reliability of the telecommunications network or of the Internet services and network elements provided by third parties. Neither Siemens AG nor its proxy representatives can guarantee, or accept any liability for, the availability, performance, stability, and reliability of the telecommunications network, or of the Internet services and network elements provided by third parties, or for uninterrupted access to our Internet Service. Furthermore, Siemens AG and its proxy representatives accept no responsibility whatsoever for errors and defects in the hardware and software used for the Internet Service or for the live transmission of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on the Internet, including the hardware and software of the service providers involved, provided there has been no intentional wrongdoing or gross negligence. If deemed necessary for security reasons, Siemens AG reserves the right to suspend or discontinue the Internet Service without further notice. If you experience any technical problems, please contact us by at hv-service.siemens@adeus.de. From the date the invitations to Shareholders' Meetings of Siemens AG are dispatched until the day the Annual Shareholder's Meeting commences, you may also contact the shareholder hotline (available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET) at from abroad or at toll-free within Germany. 3. Notification of attendance (online) at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting a. General information Shareholders who are registered in the Company's share register may notify attendance at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting via the Internet Service by ordering an admission ticket for themselves or another person authorized by them, by deciding to cast their votes by absentee voting online or by appointing the proxy representatives named by Siemens AG or credit institutions or shareholders' associations participating in the Internet Service to vote on their behalf. The notification of attendance must be received by the Company no later than Wednesday, January 24, The right to attend and vote is based on the shareholding evidenced by entry in the Company s share register as of the date of the Annual Shareholders Meeting. Applications for registration in the Company s share register received by the Company from January 25, 2018 through January 31, 2018, i.e. after the end of the closing date of the notification period, will be processed and considered only with effect after the Annual Shareholders Meeting on January 31, The technical record date is therefore the end of January 24, When using our Internet Service, any other admission ticket order, absentee votes or proxy appointments and voting instructions using the same shareholder control number will be void. If you have received several invitations with different shareholder control numbers, please complete the online notification of attendance at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting separately for each shareholder control number. Page 1

2 After timely notification of your attendance, you may use our Internet Service to change your admission ticket order, absentee votes, proxy authorization and voting instructions until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Please note, however, that changes made using the Internet Service cannot be taken into account as long as you or a third party authorized by you are personally present at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting with your voting card from the voting card block. The following special circumstances apply to the use of our Internet Service for notification of attendance from credit institutions, shareholders' associations or persons, institutions or companies of equal status pursuant to Section 135 (8) or Section 135 (10) in connection with Section 125 (5) of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG): Admission ticket orders, absentee votes or proxy appointments and voting instructions by credit institutions or shareholders' associations, for example pursuant to a permanent proxy appointment, cannot be displayed in the Internet Service for technical reasons. The possibility of changing how voting rights are exercised using the Internet Service remains unaffected thereby, provided the notification deadline has not expired. When using our Internet Service, any other admission ticket order, absentee votes or proxy appointments and voting instructions using the same shareholder control number by a credit institution or shareholders' association will be void. We recommend that you use our Internet Service as early as possible to ensure that, in the event of service failure, you will be able to use alternative ways, in due time and in the form required, to notify attendance, order an admission ticket, vote by absentee voting, appoint proxies and give voting instructions, provide proof of authority therefor, and update address details. Shareholders who have registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings and therefore no longer receive registration documents by regular mail are requested to call the shareholder hotline (available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET) at from abroad or at toll-free within Germany or send an to hv-service.siemens@adeus.de. b. Login data Access to our Internet Service is password-protected. The same applies to the live transmission of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on the Internet. You can obtain access to our Internet Service by entering your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number (PIN) or the Access Password selcted by yourself. Please find your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number in your shareholder letter on page 2. If you have received the invitation by and have not yet registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings using an Access Password selected by yourself, you can find your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number in the separate letter you received by regular mail. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings using an Access Password selected by yourself, please use that Access Password and your Shareholder Control Number. Your Shareholder Control Number is stated in all s you have received from us. If you have forgotten your login data, please contact the shareholder hotline (available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET) at from abroad or toll-free at within Germany or send an to hv-service.siemens@adeus.de. If you have registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings with an Access Password selected by yourself and have forgotten it, please use the function "Forgot your Access Password?" in the Internet Service to request a temporarily valid Access Password. c. Admission ticket order You can use the Internet Service to order an admission ticket for yourself or for a proxy representative. To do this, go to click on "Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting" and select "Admission ticket order." Please note that admission tickets ordered shortly before the Annual Shareholders' Meeting may not be able to be delivered by regular mail on time and so are deposited for your collection at the venue. If you have ordered an admission ticket for yourself, but do not wish to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting in person, you can issue a proxy authorization for a person of your choice to attend it. To do that, please complete the proxy authorization form on the admission ticket sent to you or printed out and give it to the person in question. If you have received the admission ticket by , please print out the proxy authorization form attached to the you received and give the completed form to the person in question. You may as well forward such e- mail to the person in question, also including the details of the proxy authorization. Alternatively, you can revoke your admission ticket order and choose another method of exercising your voting rights. If you have ordered an admission ticket for a proxy, but the person authorized by you cannot personally attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, you can revoke your admission ticket order and choose another method of exercising your voting rights. Alternatively, the person authorized by you can grant a person of his/her choice full pow- Page 2

3 er of substitution to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. To do that, the proxy authorization form on the admission ticket sent to you or printed out must be completed and given to the person in question. If you have received the admission ticket by , the proxy authorization form attached to the you received has to be printed out and the completed form given to the person in question. Alternatively, such may be forwarded to the person in question, also including the details of the proxy authorization. d. Absentee voting online You can use the Internet Service to cast absentee votes (absentee voting online). To do this, go to click on "Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting" and select "Absentee voting online." After timely notification of your attendance, you may submit or change your absentee votes until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. After timely notification of your attendance, you may also revoke your absentee voting along with the corresponding vote and choose another method of exercising your voting rights until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. When using our Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, please note that you cannot cast absentee votes with regard to any votes on possible procedural motions or counterproposals or election nominations or other proposals, insofar as these were not made available or published prior to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, in accordance with statutory provisions or are only put forward during the Annual Shareholders Meeting. Likewise, no requests to speak, questions, proposals and objections to resolutions of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting can be accepted via the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. e. Appointment of proxy representatives of Siemens AG You can use the Internet Service to authorize the proxy representatives appointed by Siemens AG. To do this, go to click on "Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting" and select "Appointment of authorized employees of Siemens AG." A proxy appointment made by using our Internet Service is considered proof of authorization vis-à-vis Siemens AG. The proxy representatives will vote in accordance with your instructions without disclosing your name, i.e. "in the name of whom it concerns." Please note that these proxy representatives can only vote your shares on agenda items on which you have given voting instructions. The proxy representatives will not accept any instructions for requests to speak, to ask questions or submit proposals or to raise objections against resolutions of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. After timely notification of your attendance, you may submit or change your voting instructions until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. After timely notification of your attendance, you may also revoke your proxy authorization along with the corresponding voting instructions and choose another method of exercising your voting rights until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. When using our Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, please note that you cannot give any voting instructions with regard to any votes on possible procedural motions or counterproposals or election nominations or other proposals, insofar as these were not made available or published prior to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with statutory provisions or are only brought forward during the Annual Shareholders Meeting. Likewise, no requests to speak, questions, proposals and objections to resolutions of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting can be accepted via the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Page 3

4 f. Appointment of credit institutions and shareholders' associations For the authorization of credit institutions or shareholders' associations, a distinction is made between those credit institutions and shareholders' associations that participate in the Internet Service and those that do not. i) You can appoint credit institutions and shareholders' associations participating in the Internet Service via the Internet Service. To do this, go to click on "Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting" and select "Appointment of a credit institution or a shareholders' association." A proxy appointment made by using our Internet Service is considered proof of authorization vis-à-vis Siemens AG. The credit institutions or shareholders' associations will represent you without disclosing your name, i.e. "in the name of whom it concerns." After timely notification of your attendance, you may submit or change your voting instructions until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. After timely notification of your attendance, you may also revoke your proxy authorization along with the corresponding voting instructions and choose another method of exercising your voting rights until the end of the general debate on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. ii) If you wish to authorize a credit institution or shareholders' association that does not participate in the Internet Service, we will be pleased to send you a proxy authorization form upon request. To request it, please contact the shareholder hotline (available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET) at from abroad or toll-free at within Germany or send an to hv-service.siemens@adeus.de. Contact your credit institution or shareholders' association directly for information about procedures for exercising your voting rights. Please note that many credit institutions are no longer prepared to act as proxies. Only the authorized credit institution or shareholders' association will be responsible for exercising your voting rights. 4. Live transmission of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting As determined by the Chairman of the Meeting, the entire Annual Shareholders' Meeting on January 31, 2018 will be webcast live for shareholders of Siemens AG over the Internet starting at 10:00 a.m. CET ( You can obtain online access by entering your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number (PIN) or the Access Password selected by yourself. Please find your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number in your shareholder letter on page 2. If you have received the invitation by and have not yet registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings using an Access Password selected by yourself, you can find your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number in the separate letter you received by regular mail. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings using an Access Password selected by yourself, please use that Access Password and your Shareholder Control Number. Your Shareholder Control Number is stated in all s you have received from us. A recording of the live transmission in its entirety will not be made. 5. Communities of owners / legal entities Please note that, in the case of shareholders entered in the share register as a community of owners (e.g. husband and wife), the person placing the admission ticket order, submitting votes by way of absentee voting, authorizing the proxy representatives, credit institutions or shareholders' associations, giving or changing voting instructions must have been authorized to do so by all members of the community of owners. In the case of partnerships or legal entities, the person placing the admission ticket order, submitting votes by way of absentee voting, authorizing the proxy representatives, credit institutions or shareholders' associations, giving or changing voting instructions must have been authorized to do so by the partnership or legal entity for which that person is acting, Page 4

5 or must have the right to represent the legal entity/partnership. By accessing and using our Internet Service you acknowledge that you have the appropriate authorization. 6. User's duty of care For security purposes, please do not disclose your Shareholder Control Number and your Personal Identification Number (PIN) or your Access Password to any unauthorized person. If you have any reason to suspect improper activity, you should block your access by calling the shareholder hotline (available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET) at from abroad or toll-free at within Germany or send an to hv-service.siemens@adeus.de. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of invitations to Shareholders' Meetings using an Access Password selected by yourself, you should at least change your Access Password. Once access is blocked, you may still use alternative ways to notify attendance provided the notification deadline has not expired, order an admission ticket, vote by absentee voting, appoint proxies, give voting instructions, provide proof of authority therefor, and update address details in the due time and in the form required. Please also make sure that you log out from the Internet Service correctly. By correctly logging our from the program, you also prevent unauthorized persons from viewing or manipulating your data during your absence. Your notification of attendance, admission ticket order, absentee votes, proxy authorization or voting instructions or any changes will not be properly recorded until you receive confirmation of the transaction in question. If the transaction is interrupted prematurely (e.g. by clicking on "Cancel" or by closing the window), your notification of attendance, admission ticket order, absentee voting, proxy authorization or submission or voting instructions or changes will not be properly recorded. 7. Data protection The security of your personal data and protection of your privacy are a top priority for us. We guarantee them by using secure, state-of-the-art methods of data communication. In the course of operating the Internet Service for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, we store, process, and use your data for the following purposes only: Notification of attendance at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting; Ordering admission tickets to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting online; Absentee voting online along with the corresponding vote; Appointing authorized employees of Siemens AG or credit institutions or shareholders' associations as your proxy representatives, issuing them voting instructions, and providing proof of such proxy authorization online; Identifying yourself in order to access the live transmission of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting for shareholders. Your data is stored only to the extent, and for the period, permitted by law, in particular to comply with the provisions of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) concerning the obligation to provide documentary evidence. This version of the Terms and conditions of use and notes on notification of attendance (online) at the 2017 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Siemens AG and for live transmission of the 2017 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Siemens AG on the Internet prepared for the convenience of English speaking readers is a translation of the German original. For purposes of interpretation, the German text shall be authoritative and final. Page 5