Company

Founding documents

All versions of the European XFEL founding documents as signed on 30 November 2009 in Hamburg.

Public Corporate Governance Reports

The aim of the German Public Corporate Governance Code (PCGC) is to strengthen transparency, responsibility, control and public trust in companies in which the Federal Republic of Germany directly or indirectly holds a majority stake. To this end, the PCGC contains recommendations and suggestions for good corporate governance as well as regulations that reflect applicable law. In its annual PCGC reports, the European XFEL GmbH describes how it implements these principles. Since 2022 (concerning the 2021 reporting period), these reports have been published on our website. Please see the Compliance page.

Organs

The European XFEL GmbH is organized in groups that report to the management board. The company is governed by the European XFEL Council and supported by advisory committees.

The European XFEL Council is the supreme organ of the company. It functions as the shareholders’ assembly and decides on important issues of company policy.

The European XFEL Management Board is composed of the managing directors (“Geschäftsführer”) in the sense of the German law on companies with limited liability (GmbHG), and three scientific directors.

Advisory committees support the European XFEL GmbH in various matters (Administrative and Finance Committee, Scientific Advisory Committee, Machine Advisory Committee).