ficiency of the Supervisory Board and thus bring a further improvement in corporate governance at Evonik. Audit of the annual financial statements PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprufungsgesellschaft (PwC), Dusseldorf (Germany) has audited the financial statements of Evonik Industries AG as of December 31, 2015 prepared in accor- dance with the G