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Aquafil

Remuneration Information Jun 8, 2020

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AQUAFIL S.P.A.

REMUNERATION REPORT

in accordance with Article 123-ter of Legislative

Decree 58/1998

Issuer: Aquafil S.p.A. Website: www.aquafil.com Approval date of Report: March 13, 2020

Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
SECTION I
4
1.1.
BODIES
AND
INTERESTED
PARTIES
AND
ANY
INVOLVEMENT
OF
INDEPENDENT EXPERTS
4
1.2.
2020 REMUNERATION POLICY FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND
OBJECTIVES

4
1.3.
2020 REMUNERATION POLICY
FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES
7
1.4.
BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS REMUNERATION POLICY
7
SECTION II

8
1.1.
ITEMS COMPRISING REMUNERATION

8
1.1.1. Board of Directors and Senior Executives
8
1.1.2
Board of Statutory Auditors
8
1.2.
REMUNERATION PAID OR MATURED

8
1.3.
STOCK OPTION PLANS

9
1.4.
ORDINARY SHARES OF THE COMPANY HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STATUTORY AUDITORS, GENERAL MANAGERS
AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES

9
1.5.
VOTES AGAINST IN THE PREVIOUS VOTING
9

INTRODUCTION

This report was prepared in accordance with (i) Article 1-quater of Consob Issuers' Regulation No. 11971 of May 14, 1999 (the "Issuers' Regulation"), by which Consob has implemented the revisions to Article 123-ter of Legislative Decree No. 58 of February 24, 1998 and subsequent amendments (CFA) and (ii) Article 6 of the Self-Governance Code of listed companies promoted by Borsa Italiana S.p.A. for the remuneration of Directors and Senior Executives of listed companies ("Report").

The Board of Directors of Aquafil S.p.A. ("Aquafil", "Company" o "Issuer") decided to prepare this Report (prepared according to the structure of Annex 3A, schedule 7-bis and schedule 7-ter of the Issuers' Regulation) in order to acknowledge:

  • a) in Section I, the types of remuneration and relative criteria adopted (or simply maintained) by the Board of Directors of the Issuer in financial year 2019 and 2020 for (i) the members of the Board of Directors, including Senior Directors, (ii) Senior Executives, as well as (iii) members of the Board of Statutory Auditors; and
  • b) in Section II, the composition and quantification of fees matured in financial year 2019 (i) by members of the Board of Directors, including Senior Directors, (ii) by Senior Executives, as well as (iii) by members of the Board of Statutory Auditors, together with disclosure regarding votes against in the Report regarding 2018.

In addition, Section II contains information related to shares held by the Issuer and by the subsidiaries, by the Board of Directors and Board of Statutory Auditors, by Senior Executives, as well as by spouses who are not legally separated and by minor children, in line with what is established in Art. 84-quater, paragraph 4, of the Issuers' Regulation.

The Shareholders of Aquafil, to be called for the approval of the statutory financial statements at December 31, 2019, shall be called to express an opinion, as per Article 123-ter of the CFA.

The results of the vote will be made available to the public in accordance with Article 125 quater, paragraph 2 of the CFA.

SECTION I

1.1. BODIES AND INTERESTED PARTIES AND ANY INVOLVEMENT OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS

The Issuer has adopted a traditional management and control model.

The following are the bodies of the Issuer that are delegated with defining the remuneration policy:

  • a) the Shareholders' Meeting which, among other matters: (i) resolves the remuneration for the Board of Directors; (ii) resolves the remuneration for the Board of Statutory Auditors; (iii) undertakes an advisory non-binding vote on Section I of the remuneration report; (iv) establishes the remuneration for the Executive Committee, where appointed;
  • b) The Board of Directors which, among other matters: (i) allocates the total remuneration resolved by the Shareholders' Meeting for the Board among its members; (ii) establishes the remuneration for the Senior Executives in accordance with Article 2389, paragraph 3, of the Civil Code; (iii) defines the remuneration policy; (iv) approves the remuneration report;
  • c) The Board of Statutory Auditors expresses its opinion on proposals for the remuneration of Senior Directors in accordance with Art. 2389, paragraph 3, of the Civil Code.

The Board of Directors has set up the Appointments and Remuneration Committee based on the recommendations of the Self-Governance Code. The documentation concerning the Appointments and Remuneration Committee is made available on the Issuers' website.

Given the simplicity of Aquafil's Remuneration Policy - which remains unchanged since its first publication - was in fact prepared with the support of company functions and outside consultants - independent experts were not involved in the assessment of the remuneration policy, utilising instead the remuneration policies of other comparable companies.

At present, it should be noted that point 1.2. refers to the remuneration of the Board of Directors for 2019, although in 2020 the new Board will be appointed and its remuneration will be decided.

1.2. 2020 REMUNERATION POLICY FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OBJECTIVES

The Issuer's Board of Directors approved:

  • considering the maximum emolument established by the Shareholders' Meeting, the break down of the lower amount of Euro 430,000 annually (per calendar year and therefore with application on a pro-rata basis for fractions of the year), as follows:
  • (a) to the director Giulio Bonazzi, Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • (b) to the director Adriano Vivaldi, Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • (c) to the director Fabrizio Calenti, Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • (d) to the director Franco Rossi, Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • (e) to the director Carlo Pagliani, Euro 50,000, of which:
    • Euro 40,000 for the office of director; and
    • Euro 10,000 as a member of the Control and Risks Committee;
  • (f) to the director Francesco Profumo, Euro 65,000, of which:

    • Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • Euro 15,000 as Chairperson of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee; and

  • Euro 10,000 as a member of the Control and Risks Committee;
  • (g) to the director Simona Heidempergher, Euro 65,000, of which:
  • Euro 40,000 for the office of director;
  • Euro 15,000 as Chairperson of the Control and Risks Committee; and
  • Euro 10,000 as a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee;
  • (h) to the director Margherita Zambon, Euro 50,000, of which:
  • Euro 40,000 for the office of director; and
  • Euro 10,000 as a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee; and
  • (i) to the director Silvana Bonazzi, Euro 40,000 for the office of director.
  • in accordance to the faculty assigned by the Shareholders' Meeting, to remunerate senior directors - as a fixed component of remuneration - as follows:
  • (a) to the director Giulio Bonazzi, Euro 1,170,000;
  • (b) to the director Adriano Vivaldi, Euro 50,000;
  • (c) to the director Fabrizio Calenti, Euro 50,000; and
  • (d) to the director Franco Rossi, Euro 5,000.

With regards to this remuneration, on December 7, 2017, the Appointments and Remuneration Committee of the Issuer expressed a favourable opinion on the breakdown, taking account that such was based also on other remuneration (as an employee and emoluments paid by other Group companies) recognised to each of the executive members of the Board of Directors.

The Issuer therefore adopted a long-term monetary incentive plan for executive directors and senior executives of the Aquafil Group (called the "2018-2020 Cash Long Term Incentive") ("Plan"), together with the text of the relative regulation ("Regulation"), in benefit of: (i) Giulio Bonazzi (Chairperson and CEO), (ii) Adriano Vivaldi (Executive Director and CFO), (iii) Fabrizio Calenti, (Executive Director and Chairperson of NTF and ECONYL® operations), (iv) Franco Rossi (Executive Director and Chairperson of BCF USA operations), (v) Stefano Loro (Senior Executive and Chairperson of EMEA BCF operations), (vi) Giuseppe Crippa (Senior Executive and Vice Chairperson of BFC industrial operations), (vii) Sergio Calliari (Senior Executive and Vice Chairperson Finance), (viii) Karim Tonelli (Senior Executive, Investor Relator and Performance Management Director), (ix) Denis Jahic (NTF and ECONYL® Industrial Activities Manager), (x) Sasa Muminovic (Aquafil Slo HR Manager), and (xi) Gregor Kranjc (Aquafil Slo Administration Director).

On the basis of that above, and considering that the Plan was effectively approved by the Shareholders' Meeting, the remuneration policies adopted by the Company for each category of beneficiary are outlined below.

Non-Executive Directors

This category includes Directors who do not hold specific management powers and do not hold managerial positions in the company or the Aquafil Group of companies. The non-executive directors are recognised a remuneration established by the Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with Article 2389 of the Civil Code.

Independent Directors

Remuneration for Independent Directors is equivalent to that of other directors: there is, therefore, no specific remuneration policy for Independent Directors.

Executive Directors

The remuneration of Executive Directors is structured as the sum of the fixed component and a variable component. When adopting this remuneration policy - essentially expressed in the Plan - the Company paid attention to medium-term remuneration and, intrinsically, to the sustainability of its business activities.

a. Fixed component

The fixed component of the remuneration acknowledges the breadth and strategic nature of the role, the distinctive subjective characteristics and strategic expertise. The amount is sufficient to remunerate the service of the Executive Directors also in the case of the non-achievement of the performance objectives upon which the variable remuneration component is based, and therefore - among other issues - discourages the undertaking of conduct not consistent with the risk propension of the company.

The fixed annual remuneration is approximately equivalent to a range between 48% and 100% of the total remuneration and is paid monthly.

b. Medium/long-term variable component

The variable component of Executive Director remuneration concerns the medium/long-term period (the Plan covers the 2018-2020 period).

This component of Executive Directors' remuneration is based on the reaching of pre-defined annual performance objectives established by the budget approved by the Board of Directors, which can only be amended in terms of the criteria identified by the Plan Regulation.

The annual variable remuneration indicatively ranges from between 7% (floor) and 110% (cap) of the fixed remuneration and is quantified with the approval of the relative consolidated financial statements, on the basis of the reported consolidated EBITDA. The above-stated variable remuneration increases or decreases on the basis of the reaching, or failure to reach, the EBITDA target set out in the budget.

In particular, on achieving the EBITDA targeted in the annual budget approved by the Board of Directors ("Target bonus"), the annual variable remuneration is fixed at 60% of the fixed remuneration (for the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer and Top Management) or 40% of the fixed remuneration (for the other Senior Executives).

This variable component may be reduced (up to 100% and therefore cancelled) in the case of a 10% negative differential against the effective EBITDA threshold indicated in the Plan; on the other hand, it may be increased (up to 110% of the fixed remuneration) in the case of exceeding the effective EBITDA threshold indicated in the Plan by over 15%. Where ranging between the two extremes, the variable remuneration will be directly proportional to the result achieved.

The level of achievement of the EBITDA objective will be based on a like-for-like operational scope, i.e. neutralising the effects of any acquisitions and/or divestments of businesses and/or business units and/or other similar transactions, where materially significant or constituting in excess of 5% of consolidated turnover.

Once the amount of the variable component is established, this variable component will be paid: (i) for 40% in the year subsequent to that for which it was established; and (ii) for the remaining part, on the completion of an additional 24 months. The amount of the deferred incentive is indexed against the Aquafil share price, as per the applicable Regulation.

For members of the Board of Directors in office, there is no additional compensation for the termination of office before the natural expiry of the term, while some non-monetary benefits are provided for (cars and/or insurance coverage other than third party liability of corporate boards in the exercise of their functions, so-called D&O). There are no agreements which take effect, have been amended, or terminate upon a change of control of the company or request for resignation following a takeover bid or a public exchange offer.

There are no stock option plans.

1.3. 2020 REMUNERATION POLICY FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES

At the reporting date, the company has adopted for senior executives the same Remuneration Policy as that adopted for Executive Directors.

Reference should be made therefore to point 1.2 above for further details.

1.4. BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS REMUNERATION POLICY

The remuneration of the members of the Board of Statutory Auditors was established by the Shareholders' Meeting on January 30, 2018.

Subject to that stated above, there are no agreements which take effect, have been amended, or terminate upon a change of control of the company or request for resignation following a takeover bid or a public exchange offer.

SECTION II

1.1. ITEMS COMPRISING REMUNERATION

1.1.1. Board of Directors and Senior Executives

The remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors and of Senior Executives for FY 2019 comprises:

  • i. remuneration for office;
  • ii. remuneration for committees;
  • iii. bonuses and other incentives, also under the Plan;
  • iv. employment remuneration;
  • v. remuneration from subsidiaries.

1.1.2. Board of Statutory Auditors

The remuneration of the Statutory Auditors in office at December 31, 2019 exclusively comprises remuneration for office.

1.2. REMUNERATION PAID OR MATURED

The members of the Board of Directors and the Senior Executives for FY 2019 received the following remuneration:

Name Offic e S ta te Em o lum e nts Em o lum e nts B o nus e s & Othe r R e m une ra tio n R e m une ra tio n To ta l
fo r o ffic e fo r
C o m m itte e s
Inc e ntiv e s Em plo ym e nt
(1)
S ubs idia rie s
(2 )
Giulio Bo nazzi Chairman Bo D & Chief Executive Officer In o ffice 1,210,000 143,000 1,353,000
Adriano Vivaldi Executive Directo r & CFO In o ffice 90,000 288,755 43,000 421,755
Fabrizio Calenti Executive Directo r & Chairman NTF & ECONYL® In o ffice 90,000 331,922 6,667 428,589
Franco Ro s s i Executive Directo r & Chairman BCF USA In o ffice 45,000 277,860 322,860
Simo na Heidempergher Lead Independent Directo r & Member Ris k Co ntro l
Co mmittee & Appo intments and Remuneratio n
Co mmittee
In o ffice 40,000 25,000 65,000
Frances co P ro fumo Independent Directo r Member Ris k Co ntro l
Co mmittee & Appo intments and Remuneratio n
Co mmittee
In o ffice 40,000 25,000 65,000
Margherita Elena Maria Zambo n Independent Directo r Member Appo intments and
Remuneratio n Co mmittee
In o ffice 40,000 10,000 50,000
Carlo P agliani Directo r & Member Ris ks Co ntro l Co mmittee In o ffice 40,000 10,000 50,000
Silvana Bo nazzi Directo r In o ffice 40,000 40,000
Stefano Gio vanni Lo ro Chairman BCF EMEA In o ffice 256,840 50,000 306,840
Gius eppe Crippa Vice Chairman BFC indus trial activities In o ffice 197,297 18,000 215,297
Sergio Calliari Vice Chairman Finance Dept. Executive Officer ex
262/2005
In o ffice 155,990 18,000 173,990
Karim To nelli Inves to r Relato r & P erfo rmance Management
Directo r
In o ffice 169,240 169,240
Denis J ahic Chief Executive Officer AquafilSLO & NTF Indus trial
Operatio ns Manager
In o ffice 178,774 178,774
Grego r Kranjc Executive Directo r & Chief Financial Officer
AquafilSLO
In o ffice 135,859 135,859
Sas a Mumino vic Executive Directo r & Human Res o urces Manager
AquafilSLO
In o ffice 138,711 138,711
To ta l 1,6 3 5 ,0 0 0 7 0 ,0 0 0 0 1,4 0 0 ,0 4 4 1,0 0 9 ,8 7 1 4 ,114 ,9 15

The Board of Statutory Auditors at December 31, 2019 had received the following remuneration:

Name Offic e S ta te Em o lum e nts
fo r o ffic e
P o ggi Lo ngo s trevi Stefano Chairman Bo ard o f Statuto ry Audito rs In o ffice 50,000
Buttigno n Fabio Statuto ry Audito r In o ffice 35,000
So limando Bettina Statuto ry Audito r In o ffice 35,000
To ta l 12 0 ,0 0 0

1.3. STOCK OPTION PLANS

The company has not approved any Stock Option Plans.

1.4. ORDINARY SHARES OF THE COMPANY HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STATUTORY AUDITORS, GENERAL MANAGERS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES

Except as indicated in the following table, there are no ordinary shares held by directors and statutory auditors, nor by spouses who are not legally separated and by minor children, directly or through subsidiaries, trust companies or nominees, as per the Shareholder Register, communications received or from other information acquired by the directors and statutory auditors.

Shareholder No. of Shares % share capital % voting rights
Giulio Bonazzi 29,803,036 58.50% 68.52%
Fabrizio Calenti 248,296 0.490% 0.369%
Sergio Calliari 62,005 0.122% 0.092%
Franco Rossi 116,012 0.227% 0.171%
Adriano Vivaldi 248,296 0.490% 0.369%
Total 30,477,645 60.47% 69.89%

1.5. VOTES AGAINST IN THE PREVIOUS VOTING

The Company informs that when voting on the Remuneration Report for the year 2018 there was only one (1) vote against, not preceded by a specific Shareholders' Meeting intervention.

* * *

Arco, March 13, 2020

Aquafil S.p.A.

On behalf of the Board of Directors Giulio Bonazzi Chairman

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