This CSR report gives an overview of the corporate social responsibility targets, strategies and activities of Continental AG. The report follows the internationally recognized Sustainability Reporting Guidelines of the „Global Reporting Initiative“ (GRI). The GRI guidelines contain the results of an on-going international discussion involving many different target groups including experts, international financial companies, non-governmental organizations, consultants, auditing companies and associations. The GRI aims to develop reporting standards as well as general and sector-specific indicators. Continental recognizes the importance of these guidelines as a basis for their reporting activities and sees the GRI as an essential, informal reference for their CSR report.

This report covers the period from 2005 to 2007. This issue also includes information concerning the period before this time, which was added in certain places in the report. Continental aims to continue sustainability reporting in future. Step-by-step, we want to ensure that the reporting principles and indicators are increasingly applied with the aim of providing more extensive information.

Scope of the report and data recording methods

In this report, the economic dimensions and the figures and facts on matters concerning the environment and personnel are based primarily on the information given in the Continental Annual Report 2006. In the text and diagrams of the report, it is clearly specified whether the data or activities described relate to the entire corporation or to just a certain area of the corporation.

Disclaimer

We have taken great care in collecting and processing the data contained in this report. Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee that there are no errors. Statements concerning future developments that are contained in this report are based on the information available today and on assumptions drawn from current forecasts. Even if these forecasts have been meticulously made, there is still a wide range of influencing factors that cannot be predicted now and that can lead to deviations. Therefore, any forecasts in this report are not to be taken as guaranteed.

The contents of the report have been checked and approved by the staff responsible for the relevant areas. An examination of the contents by an external body was not done. Instead, external consultants were involved in the drafting and compiling of the report.

Editorial deadline for this report: March 2007