3. Determination procedures
3.1 ORGANISATION
The Management Board of Jungfraubahn Holding AG is responsible for the overall management, supervision and control of the Executive Board throughout the Jungfrau Railway Group. According to Article 21 of the statutes, it may appoint support committees. The duties of the Management Board and committees are regulated by the statutes, the organisational regulations and the regulations of the committees. The Management Board is assisted by a Remuneration Committee in matters of compensation. The members are determined by the General Meeting through corresponding legal provisions (VegüV). In accordance with the proposals of the Management Board, the General Meeting of 2017 elected Mr Thomas Bieger (Chairman), Peter Baumann and Hanspeter Rüfenacht onto the Remuneration Committee for one year. They are all independent and "non-executive". The secretary of the committee is Urs Kessler, Chief Executive Officer.
According to art. 21 para. 2 of the statutes, the Committee has the power to make proposals and implementations. Within the framework of the General Meeting resolution, it establishes the employment contracts or remuneration of the members of the Executive Board (except the CEO) as part of its implementation powers. Subject to the amount approved by the General Meeting, the Committee shall determine the subscription rights and the subscription price for discounted shares (section 2.2.3). In addition, decisions on remuneration are to be decided by the General Management Board, as far as the Management Board and the Executive Board are concerned, as well as the corresponding motions to the General Meeting.
3.2 PROCEDURE
Remuneration questions are always prepared at the Remuneration Committee. In accordance with special regulations, the Remuneration Committee draws up the general remuneration policy of the company (Management Board, management and staff) and submits proposals for the implementation of the General Meeting decision into specific remuneration for the Management Board and CEO as well as a draft proposal for compensation to the General Meeting. It also works out the remuneration report, which is submitted to the General Meeting for information purposes.
The Remuneration Committee meets at least twice a year. It works out the remuneration using a benchmark. The constantly updated comparison has a broad basis. It is based on information on remuneration from listed companies in Bern, companies in the railway and tourism sector, and a comparison with a peer group used by Ethos. The Remuneration Committee also makes its decisions within the framework of the implementation powers conferred upon it. Among other things, it sets the number of subscription rights and the price in the share purchase programme in accordance with the amount approved by the General Meeting.
At every meeting of the Management Board following a meeting of the Committee, the Committee shall provide an extensive report to the Management Board. Within this framework, among other things, an exchange regarding the results of the compensation benchmark and the structure of the share participation programme takes place. In addition, an overall assessment of the compensation system and its effectiveness is made.
At the end of each year, the Management Board is primarily concerned with the compensation of the Executive Board, the other managers and, in a supervisory sense, the remuneration principles for the entire staff. The Management Board generally assesses its own activities and compensation as part of the annual analysis of the business results and the review of its strategies. This cycle does not prevent it from raising, in the short term, remuneration questions or issuing appropriate clarification orders.
3.3 RULES
The principles for the compensation of the Management Board and Executive Board are set out in a special chapter in the Organisational Regulations (Article 24a et seq.) The compensation scheme of Jungfraubahn Holding AG reconciles the interests of the recipients of the compensation with the interests of the company and supports the implementation of the strategy (see paragraph 2 of the Remuneration Report). It is not intended to provide any false incentives and does not include components that can be adversely influenced. The requirements profile of the Management Board forms the basis for determining the fees. This is constantly compared with the actual status and scrutinised periodically.
The remuneration system of Jungfraubahn Holding AG is designed for consistency and reliability. Variable compensation is also based on criteria and objectives that are defined in advance and usually in the long term. Correspondingly, there are binding rules for profit sharing and the participation programme. Subsequent voluntary special bonuses are established by the Board only to a modest extent and in exceptional cases. In doing so, it shall ensure that the overall framework approved
by the General Assembly is not exceeded.