The Group interim financial statements as of June 30, 2009, include those companies in which Wincor Nixdorf directly or indirectly has a majority of the voting rights (subsidiaries), or from which it is able to derive the greater part of the economic benefit and bears the greater part of the risk by virtue of its power to govern corporate financial and operating policies. Inclusion of such companies’ accounts in the Group financial statements begins when Wincor Nixdorf starts to exercise control over the company, and ceases when it is no longer able to do so.