AGM Information • Mar 7, 2022
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Press Release 2022-03-07
The Annual General Meeting of Telia Company AB (publ), reg. no. 556103-4249, will be held on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Due to COVID-19, the Board of Directors has decided that the Meeting is to be held only through postal voting in accordance with temporary legislation. It will not be possible to attend the Meeting in person or by way of a proxy holder.
Telia Company welcomes all shareholders to exercise their voting rights at the Meeting through postal voting. Information on the resolutions passed at the Meeting will be published on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, as soon as the result of the postal voting has been finally confirmed.
A presentation by the Company's CEO Allison Kirkby will be available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com in connection with the Meeting on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Those wishing to participate in the Meeting through postal voting must
To be entitled to participate in the Meeting, shareholders whose shares are registered in the name of a nominee (including Finnish shareholders that are registered within the Finnish book-entry system at Euroclear Finland Oy) must re-register such shares in their own name so that the shareholder is recorded in the presentation of the share register as of Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Such re-registration may be temporary (so-called voting rights registration) and can be requested from the nominee in accordance with the nominee's procedures in such time in advance as the nominee determines. Voting rights registrations effected no later than on Thursday, March 31, 2022, will be considered in the presentation of the share register.
Shareholders may only exercise their voting rights at the Meeting through postal voting in advance pursuant to Section 22 of the Act (2022:121) on temporary exceptions to facilitate the execution of general meetings in companies and other associations.
A special form shall be used for postal voting. The postal voting form is available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com.
The completed and signed postal voting form must be received by Euroclear Sweden AB (administering the forms on behalf of Telia Company) no later than on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. The
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form can be submitted by e-mail to [email protected], or by post to Telia Company AB, "AGM 2022", c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, P.O. Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden. Shareholders may also cast their postal votes electronically through BankID verification via Euroclear Sweden's website, https://anmalan.vpc.se/euroclearproxy. If the shareholder votes in postal by proxy, a power of attorney shall be enclosed to the form. A template proxy form is available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a certificate of incorporation or a corresponding document shall be enclosed to the form. Further instructions and conditions are included in the postal voting form.
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(b) that the Board of Directors shall instruct the CEO to take the necessary actions to ensure that the customer support operates in such a way that customers experience Telia Company as the best choice in the market
The Nomination Committee of Telia Company for the Meeting has been appointed based on the ownership structure as of July 2021 in accordance with the instruction for the Nomination Committee. The Nomination Committee comprises Daniel Kristiansson, chair (the Swedish state), Jan Andersson (Swedbank Robur Funds), Erik Durhan (Nordea Funds) and Lilian Fossum Biner (Handelsbanken Funds). In addition, the chair of the Board of Directors Lars-Johan Jarnheimer has been appointed as a co-opted member of the Nomination Committee.
The Nomination Committee presents the following proposals:
Dr. Hannes Ametsreiter was born in 1967. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee of Vodafone PLC, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. He is also the CEO of Vodafone Germany. Hannes has over 25 years of experience in the telco industry. Among others he was Group CEO for Telekom Austria and held executive positions at mobilkom Austria. He was also serving as chairman of Austrian fintech PayBox A1 Bank. Hannes has a PhD in Philosophy and a Master of Arts from the University of Salzburg. He also attended executive education courses at Harvard Business School, Stanford University and INSEAD.
Tomas Eliasson was born in 1962. He has previously been CFO at Sandvik, Electrolux, Assa Abloy and Seco Tools and board member of Millicom International Cellular S.A. He holds a degree in Business and Economics from Uppsala University. Tomas Eliasson will bring his significant experience as a CFO for multinational and global Swedish companies, roles in which he has driven several important and effective processes and procedures within global finance functions. He will also bring knowledge and experience from Millicom, having served as a board member, and chair of the audit committee from May 2014 through to May 2021. As previously announced, the Nomination Committee of Millicom has proposed Tomas Eliasson as new board member to the Annual General Meeting in May 2022.

Information about the proposed directors as well as the Nomination Committee's motivated statement are available on Telia Company's website, www.teliacompany.com.
The Nomination Committee proposes the following instruction for the Nomination Committee.
The Committee shall be considered a quorum with three (3) ordinary members. Decisions are made with a simple majority and in the event of an equal number of votes, the Chair (as defined below) has the casting vote.
Shareholders or natural persons involved in business activities that compete with Telia Company shall always be disqualified as Nominating Shareholders and as members of the Committee.
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The Committee shall review this instruction annually and as necessary propose changes thereto to the Annual General Meeting.
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Regarding directors:
Regarding auditors:
This instruction shall apply until a new instruction for the Committee is resolved by the General Meeting.

The Board of Directors proposes Erik Durhan, Nordea Funds, and Peter Lundkvist, Third Swedish National Pension Fund, or if one or both of them are prevented from participating, the person or persons appointed by the Board of Directors, to check the minutes of the Meeting together with the chair. The assignment to check the minutes also include verifying the voting list and that the received postal votes are correctly reflected in the minutes of the Meeting.
The voting list proposed to be approved is the voting list prepared by Euroclear Sweden AB on behalf of the Telia Company, based on the General Meeting share register and received postal votes, verified by the persons assigned to check the minutes of the Meeting.
The Board of Directors proposes that a dividend of SEK 2.05 per share is distributed to the shareholders in two payments of SEK 1.00 per share and SEK 1.05 per share, respectively.
The record date for the first payment is proposed to be on Friday, April 8, 2022, and for the second payment on Thursday, October 27, 2022. If the Meeting resolves in accordance with the proposal, it is estimated that Euroclear Sweden AB will execute the first payment on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, and the second payment on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Meeting authorize the Board of Directors to decide on repurchase of own shares on the main terms and conditions set out below.
Furthermore, the Board of Directors proposes that the Meeting authorize the Board of Directors to decide on transfer of own shares, with or without deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights, on the main terms and conditions set out below.
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The purpose of the authorizations to repurchase and transfer own shares, and the reason for the deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights (in relation to transfers of own shares), is to enable the Company in a time efficient way to use own shares as payment in connection with acquisitions of companies or businesses which the Company may undertake, or to settle any deferred payments related to such acquisitions, or for financing such acquisitions or deferred payments.
The purpose of the authorization to repurchase own shares is also to provide the Board of Directors with an instrument to adapt and improve the Company's capital structure and thereby create added value for the shareholders, and/or to give a possibility to the Company to transfer own shares to the participants in the Company's long-term share incentive programs. Please note that any transfer of such repurchased shares to the participants in the long-term share incentive programs requires a separate resolution by the Meeting, for example as set out in item 20(b) below for the long-term share incentive program 2022/2025.
The Board of Directors has the right to decide on the other terms and conditions for the repurchase and transfer of own shares. The Board of Directors may also authorize the chair of the Board of Directors to make any minor adjustments that may prove necessary to carry out the Board of Directors' resolution to repurchase and transfer the Company's own shares.
The remuneration framework within the Telia Company group (the "Group") may consist of fixed base pay, short-term variable pay, functional variable pay, long-term incentives, pensions and other benefits. Selected key employees participate in long-term share incentive programs approved at previous Annual General Meetings. All in all, these parts constitute an integrated remuneration package. In accordance with the decisions of the Annual General Meetings 2010-2021 neither short-term nor long-term variable cash remuneration is paid to members of the Group's Executive Management team.
The Board of Directors have carried out a review of the Group's long-term share incentive program to ensure that it continues to meet its stated objectives – i.e. to strengthen the ability to recruit and retain talented key employees, drive long-term company performance, align key employees' interests with those of the shareholders and encourage key employee shareholding. As a result of this review, the Board of Directors considers that a long-term share incentive program should be implemented for key employees of the Group also this year.
The long-term share incentive program proposed by the Board of Directors to be implemented during 2022, relating to the financial years 2022-2024 and that may result in Telia Company shares being received during the spring of 2025 (the "Performance Share Program 2022/2025"), is further described below.
In order to strengthen the link to long-term company performance, and to align the performance measures with the Group's strategic priorities as well as to align the program with market trends, the following main changes are proposed to the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 as compared to the Group's long-term share incentive program for 2021/2024:
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The Performance Share Program 2022/2025 shall be offered to approximately 250 key employees within the Group. Provided that the conditions of the Performance Share Program 2022/2025, and to the extent the performance conditions consist of targets linked to Cashflow, TSR, ROCE and ESG, are met during the financial years 2022-2024 (the "Performance Period"), participants in the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 will, free-of-charge, receive Telia Company shares ("Performance Shares").
Participants in the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 will be awarded a conditional right to receive Performance Shares, which is a right to receive a specific number of such shares at a future date provided the relevant conditions are met. The maximum number of Performance Shares which can be subject to an award at the time of grant increases compared to the program for 2021/2024, due to the increase in the number of participants from 200 to 250. Under the Performance Share Program 2022/2025, the number of Performance Shares subject to an award at the time of grant may not have an aggregate market value which exceeds 30 percent of the participant's annual gross base salary (i.e. before taxes) per year-end 2021 or, if a participant has become employed thereafter, the calculated annual gross base salary for 2022 (the "2021 Base Salary").
Further, the maximum aggregate market value of Performance Shares which can be received by a participant following the end of the Performance Period (i.e. on the vesting of the award when the participant becomes entitled to receive their shares) shall not exceed 60 percent of the participant's annual gross base salary (i.e. before taxes) per year-end 2024 (the "2024 Base Salary").
The receipt of Performance Shares is normally subject to continued employment within the Group up to and including the day of publication of the interim report for the first quarter 2025.
Participants will receive their Performance Shares following the publication of the Company's interim report for the first quarter 2025.
The Performance Share Program 2022/2025 shall in total comprise of no more than 3,428,025 Telia Company shares, which corresponds to approximately 0.08 percent of the total number of outstanding shares in the Company.
The Board of Directors' full proposal is set out in item (a) below.
The conditional rights to receive Performance Shares awarded to the participants under the program are not securities and cannot be pledged or transferred to others. Neither are any shareholders' rights transferred to participants in the program prior to the day when they receive their Performance Shares and become the owners of such shares. An estimated market value of the conditional rights to receive Performance Shares can however be calculated. The Board of Directors has calculated the total value for the rights to receive Performance Shares under the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 as approximately SEK 78 million, under the following essential assumptions: (i) a share price of SEK 35.01, calculated as the average of the daily noted volume-weighted purchase price of the Company's shares on Nasdaq Stockholm's official list during December 2021, (ii) an annual employee turnover of five (5) percent, (iii) a share price increase of five (5) percent per year, (iv) a 50 percent achievement of the TSR performance condition, (v) a 100 percent
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achievement of the ROCE performance condition, (vi) a 50 percent achievement of the Cashflow performance condition and (vii) a 50 percent achievement of the ESG performance condition. The total cost under these conditions would be SEK 99.1 million excluding the costs for the program's hedging measures and assuming a 27 percent mark-up for social security costs. The costs are accounted for as staff costs (share-based benefits) over the three-year Performance Period.
If the Cashflow performance condition is achieved to 100 percent whilst the other assumptions (i) through (v) and (vii) remain unchanged, the total value of the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 is estimated to be approximately SEK 89.3 million. The total cost would in this case be SEK 113.3 million.
If all performance conditions are achieved to 100 percent, the total value of the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 would amount to SEK 120 million assuming conditions (i) through (iii) remain unchanged. The total costs would in this case amount to SEK 152.4 million.
The Performance Share Program 2022/2025 will not entail any dilution effect, as the program is proposed to be hedged by either treasury shares or a hedging arrangement with a bank or another financial institution relating to already issued shares.
The costs for the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 are expected to have a marginal effect on the Group's key ratios.
The proposal regarding the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 to the Meeting has been prepared by the Company's Remuneration Committee and the Board of Directors has resolved to present this proposal to the Meeting.
The Board of Directors has considered two alternative hedging structures for the Performance Share Program 2022/2025; either (i) the transfer of shares held in treasury to participants in the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 or (ii) a hedging arrangement with a bank or other financial institution securing delivery of shares under the program. The Board of Directors considers the first alternative as its preferred option. However, should the Meeting not approve the proposed transfer of own shares to participants in the program, in accordance with item (b) below, the Board of Directors may enter into a hedging arrangement with a third party to hedge the obligations of the Company to deliver Performance Shares under the program.
Since the social security costs are not expected to be significant in comparison with the Company's operating cash flow, such costs are intended to be financed by cash and bank holdings.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Meeting resolves to (i) implement the Performance Share Program 2022/2025, based on no more than 3,428,025 Performance Shares, and on the further main terms and conditions set out in item (a) below, and (ii) transfer own shares to participants in the program, and to subsidiaries within the Group in order to secure their obligations to deliver Performance Shares under the program, in accordance with item (b) below.
Main terms and conditions
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We are Telia Company. Our approximately 20,000 talented colleagues serve millions of customers every day in one of the world's most connected regions. With a strong connectivity base, we're the hub in the digital ecosystem, empowering people, companies and societies to stay in touch with everything that matters 24/7/365 - on their terms. Read more at www.teliacompany.com

The performance outcome will be determined by the Board of Directors after the expiry of the Performance Period (December 31, 2024), in 2025. In connection therewith the Board of Directors will also publish the performance results.
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The transfer of own shares to participants in the Performance Share Program 2022/2025, and to subsidiaries within the Group in order to secure their obligations to deliver Performance Shares under the program, may be made on the following terms and conditions.
The reason for the proposed deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights is because the transfer of own shares is an integral part of the implementation of the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 and the Board of Directors considers that the implementation of the Performance Share Program 2022/2025 will be to the advantage of the Company and the shareholders as it offers participants the opportunity to become shareholders in the Company.
The Board of Directors proposes that the resolutions under items (a) and (b) above will be voted on at the Meeting as two separate resolutions. The proposal under item (b) on the proposed transfer of own shares is conditional on the Meeting having approved item (a), i.e. the implementation of the proposed Performance Share Program 2022/2025.
Item 21 – Shareholder proposal from Carl Axel Bruno that Telia Sverige in Luleå shall reply to all letters no later than two months from the date of receipt
Item 22 – Shareholder proposal from Per Rinder, including resolutions regarding (a) to instruct the Board of Directors to adopt a customer relations policy that creates trust among Telia Company's customers, and (b) that the Board of Directors shall instruct the CEO to take the necessary actions to ensure that the customer support operates in such a way that customers experience Telia Company as the best choice in the market
The Board of Directors proposes that the Meeting rejects the shareholder proposals under items 21 and 22(a)-(b).
The total number of shares and votes in the Company amounts to 4,089,631,702 at the date this notice is issued. On the same date, the Company holds no treasury shares.

At the request of any shareholder, the Board of Directors and the CEO shall provide information on any circumstances that (i) may affect the assessment of a matter on the agenda, (ii) may affect the assessment of the Company's or a subsidiary's financial situation or (iii) concerns the Company's relation to another group company, provided that the Board of Directors believes it would not be of significant detriment to the Company. A request for such information shall be made in writing to Telia Company AB, att. Legal Counsel Carl Knudsen, SE-169 94 Solna, Sweden, or by e-mail to [email protected] no later than on Monday, March 28, 2022. The information is provided by being available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com and at the Company's head office at Stjärntorget 1 in Solna, Sweden, no later than from Friday, April 1, 2022. The information will also be sent, within the same period of time, to the shareholders who requested it and stated their postal or e-mail address.
A valid resolution to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on repurchase and transfer of own shares under item 19 require support by shareholders holding at least two-thirds of both the votes cast and shares represented at the Meeting.
A valid resolution on transfer of own shares under item 20(b) requires support by shareholders holding at least nine-tenths of both the votes cast and shares represented at the Meeting.
The Board of Directors' and the Nomination Committee's proposals to the Meeting are set out in this notice. Information about the proposed directors as well as the Nomination Committee's motivated statement are available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com.
The annual and sustainability report and the auditor's report, the consolidated financial statements and the auditor's report on the consolidated financial statements for 2021, the Board of Directors' remuneration report, the auditor's report regarding the application of guidelines for remuneration and the Board of Directors' statements under Chapter 18, Section 4 and Chapter 19, Section 22 of the Swedish Companies Act will be available on Telia Company's website www.teliacompany.com and at the Company's head office at Stjärntorget 1 in Solna, Sweden, from Friday, March 11, 2022. The documents are presented by being available at the Company and on the Company's website. Hard copies of the documents will also be sent to those shareholders who so request and state their postal or email address. The documents can be ordered by post to Telia Company AB, "AGM 2022", c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, P.O. Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden, or by telephone number +46 (0)8 402 90 50.
The General Meeting share register will be held available on the Company's head office at Stjärntorget 1 in Solna, Sweden.
The Board of Directors, or such person that the Board of Directors may appoint, shall be authorized to make the minor adjustments in the resolutions adopted by the Meeting as may be required in connection with registration at the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear Sweden AB and to take such other measures required to execute the resolutions.
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Stjärntorget 1 SE-169 94 Solna Sweden Phone number: +46 (0)8 504 550 00
1 Cashflow is defined as Operational free cash flow, which in turn is defined as Free cash flow (the total of cash flow from operating activities and cash CAPEX) from continuing operations excluding cash CAPEX for licenses and spectrum fees, dividends from associated companies net of taxes and including repayment of lease liabilities, with a possibility for the Board of Directors to make adjustments for extraordinary events and/or exchange rate fluctuations.
2 TSR is equal to the overall return a shareholder would receive on his or her shareholding taking into account both share price appreciation and dividends (if any). When calculating TSR, an average TSR-index number for December 2021 shall be compared with December 2024 for the Company and for the companies included in the peer group defined by the Board of Directors. The peer group presently consists of Telenor ASA, Elisa Oyj, Tele2 AB, KPN NV, Orange SA, Deutsche Telekom AG, Vodafone Group Plc, Telefonica SA, Proximus PLC and Swisscom AG.
3 ESG is defined by three separate performance conditions based on Climate, Digital Inclusion and Privacy which have been set in line with targets in the Company's annual and sustainability reporting. The three performance conditions entail 5 percent weight respectively. For each performance condition, a minimum level of achievement is required for any Performance Shares to be received. The performance condition on Climate is based on the Company's 2025 climate target for the supply chain emission-target. Digital Inclusion is based on the Company's 2025 target on promotion of digital competences, with focus on groups who without sufficient digital skills risk falling behind or end up in vulnerable situations when society is increasingly digitized. Privacy is based on the Company's ranking position in respecting customer integrity compared to competitors.
For more information, please contact our press office +46 771 77 58 30, visit our Newsroom or follow us on Twitter @Teliacompany.
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