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Langen, 27 June 2005 DFS downsizes management board - Personnel Director Jürgen Hartwig set to leave the company DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH is downsizing its Board of Managing Directors from four to three members. Jürgen Hartwig, Managing Director Human Resources and Personnel Director, will leave the company on 30 June 2005. The downsizing of the Board of Managing Directors was agreed by all parties as part of the preparations currently underway for the capital privatisation of DFS. Mr Hartwig (55) assumed his function on 19 November 1992 shortly before the air navigation services in Germany were corporatised. On 1 January 1993, DFS succeeded the Federal Administration of Air Navigation Services (BFS) as the air navigation service provider in Germany. Mr Hartwig played a key role in transferring civil servants and employees from the former federal authority to DFS, thereby establishing a new employment relationship. The Supervisory Board would like to thank Mr Hartwig for his long-standing commitment and dedication to his work. DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH is a State-owned company under private law and has 5,200 employees. DFS ensures the safe and punctual handling of flights. Staff coordinate around 10,000 aircraft movements in German airspace every day, and more than three million movements every year. With this large number of flights, Germany has the highest traffic volume in Europe. DFS operates control centres in Langen, Bremen, Karlsruhe and Munich. In addition, DFS is represented in the Eurocontrol Centre in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and in the control towers of the 16 international German airports. DFS provides training and consultancy services around the world and develops and sells air traffic control, surveillance and navigation systems. The company's portfolio also comprises flight-relevant data, aeronautical publications and aeronautical information services. DFS has the following business units: Control Centre, Tower, Aeronautical Solutions and Aeronautical Information Management. 15/01/2009 PRINT

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