By the depot right to vote one understands a right to vote, which is exercised in accordance with by Kreditinstitut on the general meeting of a corporation. By an expressly in writing stated instruction in accordance with or by means of an overall clarifying the customer assigns to act the representatives of the bank in its place. Thus the bank for the shares deposited with it of the customer in the depot can exercise the right to vote, is however bound to the instructions of their customer.

The depot right to vote is seen critical among other things regarding the problem of supervisory board occupation, since it comes frequently to the fact that members are selected into the supervisory board, that could be close to the creditors and represent possibly accordingly fewer interests of shareholder, to follow but the society going by affects interests of creditor.

By the law as a check and transparency in the division (retort law) the depot right to vote of the banks 1994 was cut. The law places Informationsplichten and transparency opposite the shareholder into the Vordergund. The bank must clear up over personnel obligations of executive committee members and for other coworkers as well as over own participation to enterprise-far must the shareholder about alternative agency possibilities like bank-external authorized persons be informed. If the bank should administer more than 5% of the shares of an enterprise, it can no longer without reservation exercise the right to vote, but requires a concrete instruction to the individual items on the agenda, it is, it exercises no own being correct rights.

A depot right to vote in similar form gives it also in the context of the total works council.

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