Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Feb 15, 2018
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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DGAP-News: Burgenland HoldingAG/Announcement of the Convening of theGeneral Meeting
Announcement of the Convening of theGeneral Meeting, transmitted byDGAP- a service of EQSGroupAG. The issuer is solelyresponsible for the content of this announcement.
Burgenland HoldingAG Headquartered in Eisenstadt FN126613 x ISIN:AT0000640552
scheduled to take place on Friday, 16 March 2018, 10:15am, in the Technologiezentrum Eisenstadt, Marktstraße 3, 7000 Eisenstadt
2.Adoption of a resolution on the distribution of the net profits for the year as shown in the annual financial statements as of 30 September 2017.
3.Adoption of a resolution concerning the approval of the actions of the Executive Board and of the SupervisoryBoard for the 2016/17 financial year.
Selection of the auditor for the financial statements of the 2017/18 financial year.
Election to the SupervisoryBoard.
The records pursuant toArticle 108 paragraph 4 of theAustrian StockCorporationActwill be displayed for inspection bythe shareholders at the Company's website under www.buho.at as from the 21 st daybefore theAnnual General Meeting, i.e. from 23 February2018. The Company's website also provides access to the model forms for granting and revoking a power of attorneypursuant toArticle 114 of the Austrian StockCorporationAct.
Pursuant toArticle 109 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct, shareholders the total ofwhose shares add up to 5%of the Company's share capital are entitled to demand, in writing, that certain items determined bythem be included in the agenda of the subsequentAnnual General Meeting and publicized accordingly. Each item requested to be included in the agenda must be accompanied bya draft resolution including a statement of reasons. The applicants must have held their shares for at least three months before the filing of the respective request. The shareholders' request must have been received bythe Companynot later than on the 21 st daybefore theAnnual General Meeting, i.e. on or before 23 February2018.
Pursuant toArticle 110 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct, shareholders the total ofwhose shares add up to 1%of the Company's share capital are entitled to submit to the Company, in text form (Article 13 (2) of theAustrian StockCorporationAct),written proposals for resolution with regard to each individual item on the agenda and to demand that such proposals be made accessible on the Company's website, together with the names of the shareholders in question, the required statement of reasons and a statement (optional) bythe Executive Board or the SupervisoryBoard. Such a request must be taken into account if it is received bythe Companyon or before the seventh working daybefore theAnnual General Meeting, i.e., on or before 10 March 2017. In case of a proposal concerning the election of a member of the SupervisoryBoard, the statement of reasons will be replaced bythe declaration made bythe nominated person pursuant toArticle 87 (2) of theAustrian StockCorporationAct.
Pursuant toArticle 118 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct, each shareholder is entitled, during theAnnual General Meeting, to request and receive information concerning the Company' business, to the extent that such information is necessaryfor a proper understanding of anyitem on the agenda. The obligation of providing information also extends to the Company's legal and business relationship with any of its affiliated companies. The request for information maybe refused in cases where reasonable entrepreneurial evaluation of the subject in question indicates that the disclosure of such information is likelyto cause a considerable disadvantage to the Companyor to anyof its affiliated companies or that disclosure would lead to prosecution.Arequest for information mayalso be refused in cases where the information in question was accessible via the "Questions andAnswers" section of the Company's website for a minimum period of seven days before the start of theAnnual General Meeting. If you have questions the answering ofwhich requires some preparation time, please address them to the Companyin writing and in good time before theAnnual General Meeting.
Those shareholder rights that depend on the shares having been held bythe shareholder in question over a determined period mayonly be exercised subject to the provision of proof of share ownership throughout the relevant period in each case; such proof must be provided bymeans of a certificate of deposit pursuant toArticle 10a of theAustrian StockCorporationAct. Further information concerning the shareholder rights, particularlythose pursuant toArticles 109, 110 and 118 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct, mayalso be found on the Company's website,www.buho.at.
Proposals for additions or amendments to the agenda, proposals for resolution and questions should be addressed to the Companyby letter (Burgenland HoldingAG, attn.:Nikolaus Korab, Marktstraße 3, 7000 Eisenstadt), byfax(+43(0)1 8900 500 90) or bye-mail ([email protected]).
Pursuant toArticle 111 paragraph 1 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct, as well as ofArticle 9 of theArticles of Incorporation, the right to attend theAnnual General Meeting and to exercise the shareholder rights is determined bythe shares held bythe end of the tenth day before the date of theAnnual General Meeting (recorddate), i.e., bythe shares held bythe respective shareholder at 24:00 on6 March 2018 (CET). Shareholders wishing to attend theAnnual General Meeting and to exercise shareholder rights are obligated to supplyproof
of ownership of their shares to the Companyas of the record date.
In the case of bearer shares deposited in a custodyaccount, a certificate of deposit pursuant toArticle 10a of theAustrian Stock CorporationAct,which must be submitted to the Companynot later than bythe third working daybefore theAnnual General Meeting, i.e., on 13 March2018,will be deemed sufficient proof of ownership of the shares in question as of the record date. The certificate of deposit must have been issued bythe credit institution maintaining the custodyaccount,which must have its seat in a member state of the European EconomicArea or in a full member state of theOECD.As a minimum requirement, the certificate of deposit shall contain the data required pursuant toArticle 10a paragraph 2 of theAustrian StockCorporationAct. In cases where the certificate of deposit is intended to be used as proof of current shareholder status, it must have been issued no earlier than within the last seven days before submission to the Company.Certificates of depositwill be accepted inGerman and in English.
Certificates of deposit must be transferred to the Companyexclusivelybypostal letter (Burgenland HoldingAG, attn.:Nikolaus Korab, Marktstraße 3, 7000 Eisenstadt) or bye-mail ([email protected]).Documents should be attached to the e-mail as a PDFcontaining a qualified electronic signature pursuant toArticle 4 paragraph 1 of theAustrian "Signatur- und Vertrauensdienstegesetz" or maybe submitted via SWIFT:GIBAATWGGMS(message type MT598; indication of ISINAT0000640552 within the text is absolutely necessary).
All shareholders entitled to attend theAnnual General Meeting have the right to appoint an individual or a legal person as representative, namelybymeans of a power of attorneyissued in writing or in text form. The Companyitself, or anymember of the Executive Board or of the SupervisoryBoard, shall be entitled to act as representative exercising voting rights onlyin cases where the relevant shareholder has issued explicit instructions as to howthe voting rights are to be exercised with regard to each individual item of the agenda. The power of attorneymust be issued to a specific individual or legal person. In cases where the shareholder has issued a power of attorneyto the credit institution maintaining the custodyaccount (Article 10a of theAustrian StockCorporationAct), a declaration on the part of the latter added to the certificate of deposit, to the effect that it has been granted a power of attorney,will be sufficient.
Powers of attorneymaybe issued bymeans of the form provided on the Company's website, www.buho.at,which also permits the granting of a limited power of attorney. The power of attorneymust be sent to, and kept on file by, the Company.
Powers of attorneyare to be sent to the Companyexclusivelyin written form byletter (Burgenland HoldingAG, attn.:Nikolaus Korab, Marktstraße 3, 7000 Eisenstadt), byfax(+43(0)1 8900 500 90) or bye-mail ([email protected]).Declarations according toArticle 114 paragraph 1 line 4 mayalso be submitted via SWIFT:GIBAATWGGMS(Message Type MT598; necessaryto state the ISINcode:AT0000640552 in the text).On the dayof theAnnual General Meeting, the deliveryof the power of attorneyis onlypossible by hand upon the registration to theAnnual General Meeting at the place of that assembly.
The above provisions regarding the granting of the power of attorneyshall also apply, mutatis mutandis, to its revocation.
As of the date of the convening of theAnnual General Meeting, the Company's share capital amounts to EUR21,810,000.00 and is divided into 3,000,000 no-par-value bearer shares. Each share confers one vote.As of the date of the convening of theAnnual General Meeting, the Companydoes not hold own shares. There is onlyone class of shares.
Admittance: doors to the room in which theAnnual General Meeting will be held will be opened at 9:15am.
You mayfind further information concerning the conduct of theAnnual General Meeting, etc. on the Company's website www.buho.at.
Eisenstadt, February2018 The Executive Board
15.02.2018 The DGAPDistribution Services include RegulatoryAnnouncements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive atwww.dgap.de
| Language: | English |
|---|---|
| Company: | Burgenland HoldingAG |
| Marktstraße 3 | |
| 7000 Eisenstadt | |
| Austria | |
| Phone: | +43 2236 200 24186 |
| Fax: | +43 2236 200 84703 |
| E-mail: | [email protected] |
| Internet: | www.buho.at |
| ISIN: | AT0000640552 |
| WKN: | 879095 |
| Listed: | Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Stuttgart; Wien (Amtlicher Handel /Official Market) |
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