Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Aug 9, 2019
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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Naamloze Vennootschap Nijverheidsstraat 2, 2340 Beerse VAT BE0403.807.337 – RPR Turnhout
The shareholders are invited to the Extraordinary General Meeting, which will be held on Wednesday 11 September 2019 at 15:00 in the Lindner Hotel, Lange Kievitstraat 125, 2018 Antwerp, in the presence of Notary Marie-Ghislaine Brosens with the following agenda and proposal resolutions:
Amendments to the articles of association
Proposal of resolution: The Extraordinary General Meeting decides to delete the phrase ", the maximum number of shares whereby the aggregate fractional value of such shares may not exceed 20 percent of the subscribed share capital" from article 12. Furthermore the Extraordinary General Meeting decides to replace the words "14 December 2017" by "11 September 2019" in the second paragraph and in the last sentence of article 12.
Proposal of resolution: The Extraordinary General Meeting decides to replace the words "telex, fax" by "email" in the 2nd and the 5th sentence of article 17. Furthermore the Extraordinary General Meeting
decides and to delete the phrases "In exceptional cases, when urgency and the interest of the company so requires," and the last sentence of the fifth paragraph "However, this procedure cannot be applied for the approval of the annual accounts or for the use of the authorized capital." from article 17.
Proposal of resolution: The Extraordinary General Meeting decides to delete point 3° "the members of a management's committee, acting […] committee; 4°" from article 22, so that the current point 4° becomes point 3°.
Furthermore it is decided to to replace the words 'from two thousand and eighteen' with 'from 2020'. Furthermore the Extraordinary General Meeting decides and to add the phrase "or if the meeting is held by telephone" at the end of the 4th paragraph.
Furthermore the Extraordinary General Meeting decides to add a fifth and sixth paragraph to article 23, as follows: "Directors who are invited to a meeting of a committee of which they are not members receive a compensation of one thousand two hundred and fifty euros (€ 1,250) per meeting in which they participate, unless the meeting of the committee takes place immediately after or before a meeting of the board of directors or if the meeting is held by telephone.
The aforementioned amounts of €1,250 will automatically be increased by €25 on the first day of each financial year as from 2020.".
Proposal of resolution: The Extraordinary General Meeting decides to replace the word "Tuesday" by the word "Wednesday" in the first sentence of article 26.
rights', etc., and regarding the references to certain articles of the former Company Code (and references to that Code in general) without substantive changes, to replace these by references to the corresponding articles of the new Companies and Associations Code (or by a reference to that Code in general).
Proposal of resolution: The Extraordinary General Meeting decides to modify the terminology used in the articles of association to the terminology used in the new Companies and Associations Code, and to replace the references in several articles of association to (provisions of) the former Company Code to references to (provisions of) the new Companies and Associations Code.
Powers – formalities
In order to exercise your rights at this Extraordinary General Meeting you are required to comply with the following conditions and requirements:
Only the persons who are shareholder on the Registration date (Wednesday 28 August 2019 at twenty four (24:00) hour) have the right to participate in and vote to this Extraordinary General Meeting.
In order to participate in and to vote to this Extraordinary General Meeting:
Furthermore holders of dematerialised shares need to instruct their financial institution to inform Euroclear Belgium ultimately on Thursday 5 September2019 (16:00h), about their wish to participate to these Extraordinary General Meeting and the number of shares they wish to represent in the voting. The recognised account holder, or the clearing institution issues a certificate to the shareholder indicating the total number of dematerialised shares, respectively delivered or registered in his name in his account on the Registration date, with which the shareholder wants to participate in this Extraordinary General Meeting. This certificate must be submitted to Euroclear Belgium:
One or more shareholders holding together at least 3% of the share capital may add items to the agenda of this Extraordinary General Meeting and submit resolution proposals relating to topics already included or to be included on the agenda. The shareholders who exercise this right must comply with the following two conditions:
• prove that on the date of their request, they possess the required percentage of the share capital (by a certificate of registration of the registered shares in the Company's register of shares or by a certificate issued by a recognised account holder or clearing institute indicating that the respective number of dematerialised shares are registered in their name in an account.) and;
• prove that on the Registration date they are still shareholder holding together at least 3% of the share capital.
Items to be added to the agenda and/or resolution proposals must be addressed to the Company (see contact registered office) ultimately on Tuesday 20 August 2019.
The Company will confirm the receipt of the requests within forty-eight hours from receipt, by email or ordinary mail to the (email) address specified by the shareholder.
Ultimately on 27 August 2019, the revised agenda will be published in the Belgian Moniteur, a newspaper, and on the website of the Company. The adjusted form to vote by proxy is published on the website of the Company: www.campine.com/Investors/shareholder information/Extraordinary General Meetings ultimately on 27 August 2019.
Nevertheless, the proxies received by the Company prior to the publication of the revised agenda, remain valid for the items mentioned on the agenda. Exceptionally contradictory to the above mentioned, the proxy holder can - in compliance with the relevant provisions of the Company Code - during this Extraordinary General Meeting, deviate from possible instructions of the proxy principal, for items mentioned on the agenda, for which new resolutions were submitted, if the execution of these instructions could damage the interest of the proxy principal. The proxy holder has to inform the proxy principal in this case. The proxy should mention whether the proxy holder is entitled to vote on new items put on the agenda or whether he has to abstain from them.
Pursuant to the Company Code and under certain conditions, the shareholders can submit questions in writing, prior this Extraordinary General Meeting, to the Board or the Auditor regarding their report or items mentioned on the agenda. These questions will be handled during this Extraordinary General Meeting if (i) the shareholder complies with the participation formalities and (ii) as far as the communication of information or facts does not prejudice Campine nv's business interests nor the confidentiality to which Campine nv, its directors or Auditor have committed themselves.
These questions can be submitted beforehand per email or letter to the Company (see contact registered office). The Company has to be in the possession of the questions in writing ultimately on Thursday 5 September2019 (16:00h).
Each shareholder who wants to be represented has to comply with the above mentioned registration and confirmation of participation procedures.
Each shareholder qualified to vote who complies with the formalities for admission to this Extraordinary General Meeting provided for by the law and the Company's Articles of Association may designate one proxy holder to represent him at this Extraordinary General Meeting in accordance with the Company Code. The appointment of a proxy holder by a shareholder qualified to vote must take place in writing or by means of an electronic form which must be signed by the shareholder.
The notification of the appointment of a proxy holder must be made in writing or by electronic means to Euroclear Belgium, to the attn. of Issuer Relations, Koning Albert II-laan 1, 1210 Brussel (email: [email protected] / fax: +32 2 337 54 46) and must be received ultimately on Thursday 5 September2019 (16:00h).
The form to vote by proxy can be found on the website www.campine.com/investors/shareholders information/general meetings and is available on request; please contact Karin Leysen at the registered office. Every appointment of a proxy holder has to be made in compliance with Belgian legislation, especially regarding conflict of interest and the register keeping.
Every ultimate date mentioned in this invitation, means the ultimate date on which the respective notification has to be in possession of the Company.
The full, unabridged texts of the documents to be presented to this are available as of Friday 9 August on the website www.campine.com/investors/shareholder information/general meetings and financial publications. From that date, the documents can be consulted at the registered office and are also available – free of charge – on request via letter, telephone or email to the registered office attn. Karin Leysen.
Campine nv tel: 014/60 15 49 Karin Leysen e-mail: [email protected] Nijverheidsstraat 2, 2340 Beerse website: www.campine.com
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