Annual Document for 2009

Pursuant to Section 10 of the German Securities Prospectus Act (WpPG), once a year Merck Financial Services GmbH must provide to the public a document that contains information which the company has published or made available to the public within the previous twelve months to comply with certain regulations under German company and capital market law. In fiscal 2009 and up until the date of this notice, Merck Financial Services GmbH published the following information (information contained in or referred to by this Annual Document may possibly no longer be up-to-date):

Darmstadt, April 2010