Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • May 28, 2024
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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LUKA KOPER, Port and Logistics System Operator, Plc. Vojkovo nabrežje 38, 6000 Koper
Pursuant to the provision of Article 10, paragraph 1 of the Articles of Association of the Company LUKA KOPER, d.d., the Management Board hereby convenes the
Mr. Stojan Zdolšek, attorney-at-law from Ljubljana, is appointed Chairman of the General Meeting of Shareholders and IXTLAN Forum, d.o.o., Ljubljana is appointed Vote Counter. The General Meeting of Shareholders is attended by the Notary Public Ms. Nina Ferligoj from Koper.
The general meeting of shareholders is notified of the Company's annual report for the business year 2023 and with the written report of the supervisory board concerning the approval of the 2023 annual report.
The General Meeting of Shareholders approves the Report on the remuneration of the members of the company's management and supervisory bodies in 2023.
A part of distributable profit amounting as at 31 December 2023 to EUR 43,878,553.17 is allocated as follows: the amount of EUR 28,000,000.00 is allocated for the paying out of dividends in the gross amount of EUR 2.00 (two euros) per ordinary share; the remaining portion of distributable profit totalling EUR 15,878,553.17 remains undistributed.
The Company shall pay out dividends on 30 August 2024 to all shareholders entered as holders of the shares in the Central Book-Entry Securities Register with the KDD as of the end of 29 August 2024.
The General Meeting of Shareholders grants discharge to the Management Board for the financial year 2023.

The General Meeting of Shareholders grants discharge to the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2023.
The General Meeting of Shareholders adopts the following changes and amendments to the Company's Articles of Association:
The provision of Article 10, paragraph 1 of the existing Articles of Association shall be amended and shall read as follows:
The General Meeting shall be convened by the Management Board in cases stipulated by the law and these Articles of Association, and when that is beneficial or convenient for the Company, however, no less than once per year. The notice of convening shall be published no later than 30 (thirty) days before the General Meeting is to be held on the website of AJPES (Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services), on the Company's website and by other means if required by the regulations binding the Company.
The provision of Article 10 a of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 11 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 11 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 12 of the amended Articles of association.
The provision of the Article 12 of the existing Articles of Association, which shall become the provision of Article 13, shall be amended and shall read:
Holders of shares or their proxy holders and the members of the Supervisory Board and Management Board are entitled to take part in the General Meeting.
Only holders of shares or their proxies are vested with the voting right.
The provision of Article 13 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 14 of the amended Articles of association.
The provision of Article 13, paragraph 1 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 14, paragraph 1 and shall read:
Shareholders who are registered as holders of shares in the share register kept with the KDD at the end of the seventh day preceding the General Meeting are entitled to attend the General Meeting. If an intermediary other than the ultimate shareholder is entered in the share register as a holder of shares, the shareholder may exercise the right to vote at the general meeting on the basis of proof of who the ultimate shareholder is on the cut-off date. The right to attend the General Meeting and to exercise the right to vote may be exercised only by shareholders who register their attendance at the General Meeting of the Company with the Company's Management Board not later than the end of the fourth day preceding the General Meeting.
The provision of Article 13, paragraph 2 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 14, paragraph 2 and shall read:
Shareholders' proxies may exercise their participation and voting rights by written proxy, which must be deposited by the shareholders with the Company's Management Board at least on the day of the

General Meeting but before the beginning of the General Meeting and shall be kept with the Company. Any proxy subsequently issued by a shareholder shall invalidate the previous proxy. The Company will treat as valid the last signed and dated proxy of the same shareholder.
The provision of Article 13, paragraph 3 of the existing Articles of Association shall be deleted.
The provision of Article 13 of the existing Articles of Association which shall now become the provision of Article 14, shall be amended to include a new paragraph 3 which shall read:
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, shareholders may also appoint a proxy to represent them at the General Meeting by electronic means. The form of proxy for the exercise of voting rights by proxy is available on the Company's website. The proxy may be sent to the Company by e-mail to the address to be specified by the Company in each notice of the General Meeting, in scanned form as an attachment, and must contain the handwritten signature of the natural person and, in the case of legal persons, the handwritten signature of the proxy and the stamp or seal of the legal person, if applied. The Company shall have the right to verify the identity of the shareholder or proxy who transmits the proxy by e-mail and the authenticity of his/her signature.
The provision of Article 14 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 15 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 15 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 16 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 16 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 17 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 17 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 18 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 18 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 19 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 19 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 20 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 19, paragraph 4 which shall now become Article 20, paragraph 4, shall be amended and shall read:
A member of the Supervisory Board shall not participate in the decision-making on matters concerning him/her and a member of his/her immediate family and shall not be taken into account in determining the majority required for a quorum.
The provision of Article 20 of the existing Articles of Association which shall now become the provision of Article 21 of the Articles of Association, shall be amended and shall read:
The Supervisory Board is competent to:

(sixth) appoint and discharge the Company's Management Board,

If the Supervisory Board finds that any of the transactions referred to in this Article are regularly recurring in the ordinary course of the Company's business, it may authorise such transactions by a systemic resolution limited in time.
The Management Board and professional service departments of the Company shall submit to Supervisory Board all the required documents and allow inspecting the operations at any time.
At any time, an individual Supervisory Board member may request the Management Board to arrange with the professional service departments or individual officers of the Company to furnish the Supervisory Board with all the data and information underlying for an effective implementation of supervisory function.
The provision of Article 21 of the existing Articles of Association shall be deleted.
The provision of Article 22, paragraph 4 of the existing Articles of Association shall be amended and shall from now on read:
If the meeting is requested by a Supervisory Board member or by the Management Board, the mover shall indicate the purpose and reasons for the meeting, and the Supervisory Board Chairman shall call the meeting immediately, in 24 hours after receiving a complete request. The meeting shall be held in two weeks' time after the request to call a meeting has been received.
The provision of Article 23 of the existing Articles of Association shall be amended and shall from now on read:
Minutes shall be taken in the meetings of the Supervisory Board, and shall be signed by the Chairman. The minutes shall be delivered to the members of the Supervisory Board, who may comment on them within 8 (eight) days of receipt. The minutes shall be approved by the Supervisory Board in its next meeting.
The provision of Article 24 of the existing Articles of Association shall be amended and shall from now on read:
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board represents the Company vís a vís the Management Board, and he represents the Supervisory Board vís a vís the bodies of the Company and the third parties, unless otherwise stipulated by the Supervisory Board. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board shall represent the Company also in other cases provided by the law.
The provision of Article 29 a of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 30 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 30 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 31 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 31 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 32 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 31 of the existing Articles of Association which shall now become Article 32 of the amended Articles of Association, shall include the following new paragraph 2 with the following wording:

In the event of absence or non-attendance due to other engagements of the President of the Management Board, he/she shall be replaced by a member of the Management Board designated by the President of the Management Board, failing which, the Management Board shall adopt a resolution designating the member of the Management Board who shall replace the President of the Management Board.
The provision of Article 32 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 33 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 33 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 34 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 34 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 35 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 34 of the existing Articles of Association which shall now become Article 35, shall be amended and shall read:
The Company's Management Board and members of the Supervisory Board shall not, during their term of office with the Company, participate as members of a management or supervisory body, or as partners or procuration holders of the company, or as employees or founders of any other company, or as an individual entrepreneur engaged in an activity which is or may be in competition with the Company's principal activity, except within the Company's group.
The prohibition referred to in the preceding paragraph shall continue to apply to members of the Management Board for two years after the termination of their term of office in the cases provided for in the Companies Act, which shall also be regulated in the contracts concluded with the members of the Management Board on commencing their term of office. The Supervisory Board may unilaterally waive the enforcement of the non-competition obligation upon the termination of the term of office of a member of the Management Board.
In the event of a breach of the non-competition obligation under this Article, the Company shall be entitled to enforce sanctions against the offenders in accordance with the provisions of law.
The provision of Article 35 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 36 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 36 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 37 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 37 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 38 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 38 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 39 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 39 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 40 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 40 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 41 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 41 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 42 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 42 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 43 of the amended Articles of Association.

The provision of Article 43 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 44 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 44 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 45 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 44, paragraph 1, which shall become Article 45, paragraph 1 of the Articles of Association, shall be amended and shall read:
After the end of the financial year, the Management Board may pay an interim dividend in respect of the projected distributable profit in accordance with the law.
The provision of Article 45 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 46 of the amended Articles of Association.
A new section IX. entitled »Trade secrets« shall be included.
A new Article 47 of the Articles of Association shall be included, with the following wording:
The Company determines that all documents and information which it is evident that the Company would suffer significant damage if they were to come to the knowledge of an unauthorised person, and in particular those which are designated as such in a special act of the Company, or which are identified or designated as such by a resolution of the bodies of the Company, shall be deemed to be trade secrets.
The existing section IX. entitled »General, transitional and final provisions« shall become section X.
The provision of Article 46 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 48 of the amended Articles of Association.
The existing section X. entitled »Amendments to the Articles of Association« shall become section XI.
The provision of Article 47 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 49 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 48 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 50 of the amended Articles of Association.
The existing section XI. entitled »The term of the Company, and termination« shall become section XII.
The provision of Article 49 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 51 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 50 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 52 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of section XII. entitled »Term of these Articles of Association« shall become section XIII.
The provision of Article 51 of the existing Articles of Association shall become the provision of Article 53 of the amended Articles of Association.
The provision of Article 51, paragraph 3 of the existing Articles of Association shall be deleted.
Taking into account the changes and amendments to the Company's Articles of Association, a consolidated text of the Articles of Association shall be drawn up.

The proposed resolution for the determination of the remuneration and sitting fees of the members of the Supervisory Board and members of the Supervisory Board Committees:
Members of Supervisory Board Committee(s) shall receive an additional payment for the performance of their duties, which, for each committee member, shall amount to 25% of the basic remuneration for the performance of duties as a Supervisory Board member. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board Committee shall be entitled to an additional payment for the performance of his/her duties equal to 37.5% of the basic remuneration for the office of a Supervisory Board member. Notwithstanding the above, and therefore irrespective of the number of committees of which he/she is a member or chairs, each member of a Supervisory Board Committee shall be entitled to receive an additional payment in each financial year until the total amount of such additional payments reaches 50% of the basic remuneration for the performance of Supervisory Board member duties on an annual basis. If the term of office of a member of the Supervisory Board is less than one financial year and he/she is also a member of a Supervisory Board committee, he/she shall, notwithstanding the foregoing and therefore irrespective of the number of committees of which he/she is a member or chairs, be entitled to an additional payment for the performance of his/her duties during the financial year, until the aggregate amount of such additional payments reaches 50% of the basic remuneration for the office of the Supervisory Board member in question in respect of the period of time during which his/her term of office was completed and in respect of the financial year in question.

the General Meeting. The Supervisory Board is hereby authorised to decide on additional payments for special tasks of Supervisory Board members due to the objective circumstances of the Company. Additional payments for special tasks shall be permissible only for the period during which the special tasks are actually performed, which the Supervisory Board may exceptionally decide on retrospectively (in particular in the case of special tasks due to the Company's objective circumstances), but no longer than for the preceding financial year. The additional payments for special tasks may amount to a maximum of 50% of the basic remuneration for the performance of the Supervisory Board member's duties in any one year for each Supervisory Board member in total (irrespective of the number of special tasks). For each special task, the additional payment shall be determined by considering the complexity of the task and the resulting increased workload and responsibility. The additional payments shall always be pro-rated accordingly to the period of actual performance of the specific task.
The General Meeting takes note of the resolution of the Works Council of Luka Koper, d.d. of 20 December 2023, which states that the Works Council has elected Mehrudin Vuković as the workers' representative on the Supervisory Board for a period of four (4) years, from 19 January 2024 onwards.
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The resolution proposals with explanations and other materials for the General Meeting are available for inspection by the shareholders at the company's secretariat, Vojkovo nabrežje 38, Koper, every working day from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. from the date of publication of the general meeting notice until the date of the general meeting, and on the company's website www.luka-kp.si, as well as on the stock exchange's electronic information system http://seonet.ljse.si, and on the webpage of AJPES www.ajpes.si. Shareholders wishing to inspect the materials for the general meeting at the Company's headquarters must make an appointment before visiting the Company by calling + 386 (0)5 6656 739 (between 9 a.m. and 12 a.m. on any working day) or by sending an email to the e-mail address: [email protected]
Shareholders whose total interest accounts for one-twentieth of the share capital may request in writing that an additional item be placed on the agenda. The request must be accompanied in writing by a proposed resolution to be decided upon by the General Meeting of Shareholders or, if the General Meeting of Shareholders will not adopt a resolution on an individual agenda item, an explanation of that item. Shareholders should send their request to amend the agenda to the company no later than 7 (seven) days after the date of publication of the general meeting convocation. The shareholders may send their request to place additional items on the agenda by post to the address: Luka Koper d.d., Vojkovo nabrežje 38, 6000 Koper, Slovenia or submit it via e-mail to [email protected]
Pursuant to Article 300, paragraph 1, and Article 301 of the Companies Act (ZGD-1), the shareholders may submit in writing the resolution proposals to each item of the agenda. The management board will publish the shareholders' proposals in the same manner the notice of convening the General Meeting of Shareholders is published, providing that the proposals will meet the following conditions:
• the shareholder submitting them will inform the Company of its intention to object to the proposal of the management board or supervisory board at the General Meeting of Shareholders and that it will call on other shareholders to vote in favour of its proposal.
The shareholders may submit their resolution proposals and electoral proposals to the Company to the address Luka Koper d.d., Vojkovo nabrežje 38, 6000 Koper or via e-mail to [email protected]
At the general meeting of shareholders, the shareholders can exercise their right to be informed as ensues from first paragraph of Article 305 of the Companies Act (ZGD-1). Comprehensive information on shareholder's right to be informed as ensues from first paragraph of Article 298 of the Companies Act (ZGD-1) and from first paragraph of Article 300, Article 301 and Article 305 of the Companies Act (ZGD-1) is available online at www.luka-kp.si
The right to attend and vote at the General Meeting of Shareholders may be exercised only by those shareholders who are registered as holders of shares in the Central Register of Book-entry Securities

with the KDD – Central Clearing and Depository Company, d.d. at the end of the seventh day prior to the General Meeting (the cut-off date) and who register their attendance at the General Meeting with the company's management board by no later than the end of the fourth day prior to the General Meeting by means of a written application (i.e. registration). Applications shall be deemed to be in time if they reach the company's headquarters not later than the fourth day before the General Meeting.
In their registration form, private shareholders (natural persons) must state their date of birth and address or other personal information by way of each that shareholder may unambiguously be identified, whereas legal entities must provide their registration number and address. Filled-in registration forms have to be sent by the shareholders to the address: Luka Koper, d.d., Vojkovo nabrežje 38, 6000 Koper, Slovenia, or to the e-mail address: [email protected]
Shareholders' proxies shall exercise their participation and voting rights on the basis of a written authorisation (power of attorney) which must be deposited by the shareholders with the company's headquarters at least on the day of the General Meeting, before the start of the meeting. Authorisations (powers of attorney) shall be deposited with the Company. A specimen registration form and a specimen authorisation form are available on the Company's website at www.luka-kp.si.
The standardised messages regarding the exercise of shareholders' rights at the General Meeting that the Company will receive from the KDD and that the KDD will have previously received through the intermediary chain will also be considered. The term "considered" shall be understood to mean the recognition of the communications as the relevant registrations for the General Meeting and their recognition as the relevant authorisations for the proxies named therein.
If a broker who is not the final shareholder is entered as a shareholder in the Central Register of Book-entry Securities with the KDD, the shareholders can exercise their voting right based on proof referred to in the second paragraph of Article 235.č of the Companies Act, which specifies who is the final shareholder on the cut-off date. A broker may only exercise or entrust the exercise of a voting right for shares not possessed by it to other persons if it has been granted an authorisation (power of attorney) in writing. The authorisation shall be stored by the broker in such a way as to ensure its verifiability. The authorisation may be given to a single broker and may be revoked at any time. The broker may only grant an authorisation to persons not in its employment if this is expressly permitted by the authorisation. If a broker exercises a voting right on behalf of a shareholder by authorisation, the authorisation shall be submitted to and stored by the company. The broker shall call upon the shareholder to provide it with instructions for exercising the voting rights and shall advise the shareholder that its failure to provide instructions for exercising the voting right would result in the exercise under the broker's own proposals notified to the shareholder unless it could be presumed that the shareholder would approve of a different decision if it was aware of the actual state of affairs. The same provision shall also apply, mutatis mutandis, to fiduciary account holders in respect of shares which do not belong to them, to voting advisers and to other persons who perform the exercising of voting rights on behalf of shareholders based on proxy authorisation as part of their business activity.
Should a quorum not be present at the proposed time of the General Meeting of shareholders because less than 30 percent of shareholders with voting right are present at the meeting, the General Meeting of Shareholders shall be adjourned and resumed one hour later on the same day, i.e. on 27 June 2024 at 12.00 a.m. (12:00 CET) in the same conference room. In such a case, the General Meeting of Shareholders shall be deemed to have a quorum and shall be able to pass valid resolutions regardless of the share capital represented (third paragraph of Article 11 of the Articles of Association of the company Luka Koper, d.d.).

Major shareholders, institutional investors and the Republic of Slovenia as the majority holder of management rights, are proposed to inform the public prior to the General Meeting of Shareholders of their policy on the management of their investment in the public joint stock company Luka Koper, d.d., which includes, for example, the voting policy, the type and frequency of management activities, and the dynamics of communication with the management and supervisory bodies of the Company.
Shareholders and their proxies are kindly requested to come to the conference room where the General Meeting of Shareholders will take place at least 30 minutes before the commencement of the meeting in order to collect the voting devices. The conference room shall be open one hour prior to the commencement of the meeting.
Nevenka Kržan President of the Management Board
Gregor Belič Member of the Management Board
Mirko Bandelj Chairman of the Supervisory Board
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