Taking responsibility for public welfare is an active part of our corporate culture. In 1964, the Company founders Hermann and Ernst Mahle transferred their ownership of the Company to the MAHLE Foundation for public benefit, which has held almost all the Company's shares in trust since that time. MAHLE GmbH makes a dividend available to the MAHLE Foundation from the annual Group profit. We regard this as an important contribution toward playing a responsible, hands-on role in our community. The MAHLE Foundation serves charitable causes - by promoting health care, youth development and welfare, schooling, general adult education and vocational education, as well as organic farming. Since 1975, one of the key projects sponsored by the MAHLE Foundation has been the Filderklinik in Filderstadt-Bonlanden near Stuttgart, Germany. It combines modern, scientific orthodox medicine with holistic, anthroposophical medicine. Since 2004 alone, the MAHLE Foundation has donated EUR 8.5 million to date to support the extension and restructuring of the clinic. The details of this clinic extension and restructuring and the large number of other projects sponsored are presented in the MAHLE Foundation's own annual report. In addition, policy decisions were made in 2006 to provide increased support in the future for medical and social projects for activities in Brazil and other countries outside Germany. MAHLE GmbH provided the MAHLE Foundation with a substantial one-off sum to start up these activities.