But the deal has yet to be approved by DaimlerChrysler's supervisory board or the Chinese government.
German law requires half of the supervisory board members at big firms to be workers' representatives.
Supervisory board members are supposed to control and advise the executive board (the Vorstand).
Moreover, top German executives look forward to moving on to their company's supervisory board.
Rolf Breuer, the chairman of the supervisory board, will step down by the end of 2005.
In particular, the role of Ferdinand Piech, chairman of Volkswagen's supervisory board, is muddying the waters.
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German companies, especially big ones, tend to have at least one banker on their supervisory board.
He got just that when the chairman of Algroup supervisory board resigned in protest at the merger.
Did Lawrence S. Eagleburger, until recently a member of the supervisory board of Alcatel, encourage this venture?
Mr Pischetsrieder was fired 13 months ago after a long and acrimonious meeting of the supervisory board.
PKN's supervisory board dumped Jacek Walczykowski, then the firm's president, barely a fortnight after he was appointed.
It weakens his position with the regional politicians and savings-bank chiefs who control WestLB via its supervisory board.
Instead, he argues, the agency's supervisory board should no longer represent interest-groups, but be composed of independent experts.
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Jan Smerek, head of the supervisory board, is a member of parliament in Mr Meciar's left-wing populist party.
It is very important to the Supervisory Board to define the succession and transition early on, thereby ensuring continuity.
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The board of directors of Intel and the supervisory board and the management board of Infineon have approved the transaction.
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Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee proposed her own amendment calling for a "supervisory board", to be chaired by the secretary of state.
Embarrassingly, the retiring head of the supervisory board and a member of the committee, Joachim Funk, was voted a bonus too.
LB's supervisory board prevails, a reversal of strategy may be signalled as early as July 2nd, when the board next meets.
VW's chief executive, is uncertain because the union representatives on the supervisory board seem to oppose the renewal of his contract.
The month of April also saw Heinrich von Pierer, chairman of Siemens' supervisory board, and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld leave the firm.
It has a five-member board that reports to a 37-member supervisory board - which is formally chaired by the federal economy minister.
More than half of Bayer's supervisory board is made up of worker representatives, who want things to stay just as they are.
Final approval by the supervisory board could come as early as Tuesday.
He has also been a member of the Dutch central bank supervisory board and regularly has represented the queen at international events.
On December 18th, one member of the supervisory board suggested he quit.
This is in contrast to the two-tier boards of German companies, which have an executive management board overseen by a non-executive supervisory board.
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Still, a representative from each of all three families has a seat on Metro's supervisory board, though none of them actually are family members.
To help calm such fears, the government has changed the country's constitution to give the canal's all-Panamanian supervisory board a unique degree of independence.
That will mean that at 17 of the top 30 German listed companies, the chairman of the supervisory board is a former chief executive.
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