Disclosure of shareholders' rights pursuant to section 122 (2), section 126 (1), section 127, and section 131 (1) AktG

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Disclosure of shareholders' rights pursuant to section 122 (2), section 126 (1), section 127, and section 131 (1) AktG Supplementary requests (section 122 (2) AktG) Shareholders whose shares together constitute one-twentieth of the share capital or a pro-rata amount of 500,000.00 can request that items be added to the agenda and announced. A justification or a draft resolution must be provided for each new item. Supplementary requests must be received by the Company in writing at least 30 days before the Annual Shareholders' Meeting; this period does not include the day of receipt of the request and the day of the meeting. Any supplementary requests must therefore be received by the Company no later than 24:00 o clock CEST on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Supplementary requests received after this time will not be taken into consideration. Supplementary requests will be taken into consideration only if the applicants prove that they have been the holders of the shares constituting the required minimum shareholding for at least three months before the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Any supplementary requests must be submitted to the following address: MEDION AG, Investor Relations, Am Zehnthof 77, 45307 Essen, Germany. Motions by shareholders (section 126 (1) AktG) At the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, each shareholder is entitled to file a counter-motion, accompanied by justification, to the proposals of the Management Board and/or Supervisory Board for a particular agenda item. Counter-motions received by the Company at the address below at least 14 days before the meeting (this period does not include the day of receipt of the counter-motion and the day of the meeting), i.e. by no later than 24:00 o clock CEST on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, will be made available without delay, along with the name of the shareholder, justification for the counter-motion, and any responses from the Management, on the Internet at http://www.medion.com/agm (cf. section 126 (1) sentence 3 AktG). Any counter-motions (including justification) must be submitted to the following address: MEDION AG, Investor Relations, Am Zehnthof 77, 45307 Essen, Germany, or fax: +49-201- 8383-6510, email address HV2011@medion.com. Counter-motions sent to a different address will not be taken into consideration. Section 126 (2) AktG specifies the cases in which a counter-motion and its justification need not be made available on the Internet. These are described on the Company's website at http://www.medion.com/agm. This is without prejudice to the right of each shareholder to file counter-motions to the various agenda items during the Annual Shareholders' Meeting without submitting them to the Company by the deadline before the meeting.

Nominations by shareholders (section 127 AktG) Each shareholder has the right to submit nominations in the Annual Shareholders Meeting for the election of Supervisory Board members (Agenda Item 6) or the selection of the auditor (Agenda Item 8). Nominations by shareholders that are received by the Company at the address below at least 14 days before the meeting (this period does not include the day of receipt of the nomination and the day of the meeting), i.e. by no later than 24:00 o clock CEST on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, will be made available without delay on the Internet at http://www.medion.com/agm. Nominations by shareholders will be made available only if they contain the name, the professional occupation, and the place of residence of the nominated person, and, in the case of nominations for members of the Supervisory Board, disclosure of their membership in other legally mandated supervisory boards (cf. section 127 sentence 3 in conjunction with section 124 (3) sentence 3, and section 125 (1) sentence 5 AktG). In contrast to counter-motions pursuant to section 126 (1) AktG, nominations do not require justification. According to section 127 sentence 1 in conjunction with section 126 (2) AktG, there are other cases in which nominations need not be made available on the Internet. These are described on the Company's website at http://www.medion.com/agm. Nominations must be submitted to the following address: MEDION AG, Investor Relations, Am Zehnthof 77, 45307 Essen, Germany, or fax: +49-201-8383-6510, email address HV2011@medion.com. Nominations sent to a different address will not be taken into consideration. This is without prejudice to the right of each shareholder to make nominations during the Annual Shareholders' Meeting for the election of the Supervisory Board members (Agenda Item 6) or the selection of the auditor (Agenda Item 8) without submitting them to the Company by the deadline before the meeting. Shareholders' right of information (section 131 (1) AktG) In accordance with section 131 (1) AktG, the Management Board is required, upon request, to give each shareholder information about Company matters at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, provided that this information is necessary in order to properly assess the agenda item. The Management Board's duty to provide information also extends to legal and business relationships between the Company and an affiliated company, as well as the position of the Group and the companies covered by the consolidated financial statements (cf. section 131 (1) sentence 2 and sentence 4 AktG). The Management Board is permitted to refuse to provide information under certain circumstances, which are described in greater detail in section 131 (3) AktG. A detailed description of the circumstances in which the Management Board is permitted to refuse to provide information can be found on the Company's website at http://www.medion.com/agm.

The provisions of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) underlying these shareholder rights are as follows: 122 Convening a meeting at the request of a minority (excerpts) (1) A shareholders' meeting shall be called if shareholders jointly representing at least onetwentieth of the capital stock request such meeting in writing, stating the purpose and the reasons of such meeting; such request shall be addressed to the managing board. The articles may provide that the right to request a shareholders' meeting shall require another form and the holding of a lower portion of the capital stock. 142 (2), sentence 2, shall apply mutatis mutandis. (2) In the same manner shareholders jointly representing at least one-twentieth of the capital stock or a proportionate ownership of at least EUR 500,000 may request that items be placed on the agenda and be disclosed. Each request must be accompanied by supporting information or a formal resolution proposal. The request within the meaning of sentence 1 must be received by the company no later than 24 days, in the case of stock exchange listed companies no later than 30 days, prior to the meeting, excluding the day of receipt. 126 Motions by shareholders (1) Motions by shareholders, including shareholders' names, supporting information and, if any, management's discussion shall be made available to the eligible persons referred to in 125 (1) through (3) under the conditions specified therein, provided that the shareholder submitted at least 14 days prior to the meeting a counterproposal to a proposal of the managing board and the supervisory board regarding a specific item on the agenda, together with supporting information, to the address designated for this purpose in the shareholders' meeting notice. The day of receipt shall not be counted. In the case of stock exchange listed companies, the required availability shall be shall be provided over the Internet website of the company. 125 (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis. (2) A counterproposal and supporting information need not be made accessible if: 1. the managing board would by reason by such accessibility become criminally liable; 2. the counterproposal would result in a resolution of the shareholders' meeting that would be illegal or would violate the articles; 3. the reasons contain statements which are manifestly false or misleading in material respects or which are libelous; 4. a counterproposal of such shareholder based on the same facts has already been made available with respect to a shareholders' meeting of the company pursuant to 125; 5. the same counterproposal of such shareholder based on essentially identical supporting information has already been made available pursuant to 125 to at least two shareholders' meetings less than one-twentieth of the capital stock represented has voted in favor of such counterproposal; 6. the shareholder indicates that he/she will neither attend nor be represented at the shareholders' meeting; or 7. within the past two years at two shareholders' meetings the shareholder has failed to make or cause to be made on his/her behalf a counterproposal communicated by him/her. The supporting information need not be made accessible if it exceeds a total of 5,000 characters. (3) If several shareholders make counterproposals for resolution in respect of the same subject matter, the managing board may combine such counterproposals and the respective supporting information.

127 Election nominations by shareholders (3) 126 shall apply mutatis mutandis to a nomination by a shareholder for the election of a member of the supervisory board or external auditors. Such nomination need not be supported by a statement of the reasons therefore. The managing board need not make such nomination available even if it fails to contain information pursuant to 124 (3), 3rd sentence, and 125 (1), 5 th sentence. 131 Right to obtain information (1) Each shareholder shall upon request be provided with information at the shareholders' meeting by the managing board regarding the company's affairs, to the extent that such information is necessary to permit a proper evaluation of the relevant item on the agenda. The duty to provide information shall also extend to the company's legal and business relations with any affiliated enterprise. If a company makes use of the simplified procedure pursuant to 266 (1), 3 rd sentence, 276 or 288 of the German Commercial Code, each shareholder may request that the annual financial statements be presented to him at the shareholders' meeting on such annual financial statements in the form that would have been used if such provisions on the simplified procedure were not applied. The duty of the managing board of a parent company to provide information ( 290 (1) and (2) of the German Commercial Code) at the shareholders' meeting at which the consolidated financial statements and management's discussion and analysis of these statements are presented also extend to the consolidated group's position and the affiliated enterprises included in the consolidated financial statements. (2) The information provided shall comply with the principles of conscientious and accurate accounting. The articles or the bylaws pursuant to 129 may authorize the chairman of the meeting to reasonably limit a shareholder's time to speak and ask questions and may provide relevant details in this connection. (3) The managing board may refuse to provide information: 1. to the extent that providing such information is, according to the sound business judgment, likely to cause material damage to the company or an affiliated enterprise; 2. to the extent that such information relates to tax valuations or the amount of certain taxes; 3. with regard to the difference between the value at which items are shown in the annual balance sheet and the higher market value of such items, unless the shareholders' meeting is to approve the annual financial statements; 4. with regard to the methods of classification and valuation, if disclosure of such methods in the notes suffices to provide a clear view of the actual condition of the company's assets, financial position and profitability within the meaning of 264 (2) of the German Commercial Code; the foregoing 4 of 4 shall not apply if the shareholders' meeting is to approve the annual financial statements; 5. if provision thereof would render the managing board criminally liable; 6. insofar as, in the case of credit institutions or financial services institutions, information need not be given on methods of classification and valuation applied and setoffs made in the annual financial statements and management's discussion and analysis thereof; 7. if the information is continuously available on the Internet website of the company for at least seven days prior to the beginning and during the shareholders' meeting. The provision of information may not be refused for other reasons. (4) If information has been provided to a shareholder by reason of his/her status as a shareholder outside a shareholders' meeting, such information shall upon request be provided to any other shareholder at the shareholders' meeting, even if such information is not necessary to permit a proper evaluation of an item on the agenda. The managing board may not refuse to provide such information on the grounds of subsection (3), 1st sentence, no. 1 through 4.

Sentences 1 and 2 shall not apply if a subsidiary ( 290 (1) and (2) of the German Commercial Code), a joint venture ( 310 (1) of the German Commercial Code) or an associated company ( 311 (1) of the German Commercial Code) for purposes of the inclusion of the company into the consolidated financial statements of the parent company and such information is needed for such purposes. (5) A shareholder who has been denied information may request that his/her question and the reason for which the information was denied be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. Miscellaneous In addition, the chairman of the meeting is authorized to adopt various measures of order and control at the Shareholders' Meeting. This also includes the limitation of the right to speak and ask questions. The agenda of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting has been drawn up in German. The English text is a non-binding convenience translation.