AGM Information • Jan 8, 2024
AGM Information
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(1)Shareholders holding at least 5% of company stock may request in writing that items be added to the agenda after the call for General Meeting is issued. A proposed resolution to be voted upon at the General Meeting must be attached with such a request, or if the General Meeting does not pass a resolution on a particular item on the agenda, clarification for such an item must be given. It shall be sufficient if the request is sent to the Company within seven days of the call for the General Meeting. The Statute can tie this right to a lower share of capital stock.
(2) Listed companies or those whose Statute lays down that the General Meeting may be concluded as an electronic or a virtual General Meeting, must provide the shareholders at least one way to submit additional agenda items referred to in the previous item by electronic means.
(3) The Management must publish the additional items on the agenda that are to be debated at the General Meeting immediately after the deadline from paragraph 1 of this Article. Additional agenda items may only be debated at the General Meeting if they were published in the manner determined by Article 296 of this Act and at least 14 days before the General Meeting, otherwise they shall be debated at the first next General Assembly.
(4) Listed companies shall publish the consolidated agenda in the same way that the call for General Meeting was published within the time period specified in the previous paragraph.
(1) Shareholders can propose in writing draft resolutions for each item on the agenda. The shareholder's proposal shall be published and communicated in the manner described in Article 296 of the Companies Act only if the shareholder has submitted a suitably formed proposal within seven days following the publication of the notice on convoking the General Meeting and indicated their intent to protest the management or supervisory body's proposal and to persuade other shareholders to vote on their proposal.
(2) Listed companies or those whose Statute lays down that the General Meeting may be concluded as an electronic or a virtual General Meeting, must provide the shareholders at least one way to submit proposals referred to in the previous item by electronic means.
(5) The management may report in summary the counter proposals and their justifications when several shareholders filed proposals on the same subject.
(6) The proposals of the shareholders that have not been sent to the company by the deadline set forth in the first paragraph hereunder and have been submitted no later than at the General Meeting itself shall be discussed at the General Meeting.

The provisions laid down in the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to a shareholder's proposal for the election of members of supervisory board, board of directors or the auditors. An electoral proposal shall not require justification.
(1) At the General Meeting the management must give the shareholders reliable information on matters concerning the company where it is important for an assessment of the agenda items. The management may answer shareholders' questions with the same content in a single response. The right to be informed shall also apply in respect of the company's legal and business relations with affiliated companies.
(2) The management shall not be obliged to provide data:
(3) If a shareholder is given information outside a session of the General Meeting, that information must be passed on to every other shareholder upon request even if it is not necessary for an assessment of an item on the agenda.
(4) If a shareholder is not given information, he/she may require that his/her question and the reason why the information was refused be entered in the minutes.
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