AGM Information • May 16, 2024
AGM Information
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The Annual General Meeting in Arendals Fossekompani ASA, business reg. no 910 261 525, was held on 15 May 2024 at 5:00 pm as a digital meeting. Accordingly, it was not possible to participate in person.
Overview of the voting results for each item has been attached to these minutes.
The following matters were considered:
The General Meeting was opened by the Chair of the Board of Directors, Trond Westlie.
At the General Meeting, a total of 29.350.192 shares and votes were represented, including 0 shares and votes participating personally, and 14.150.907 shares and votes by proxy and 15.199.285 shares and votes by instructions to the Board.
Accordingly, 52.42% of the share capital entitled to vote was represented, i.e. not including treasury shares held by the company.
Attendance summary report has been attached to these minutes.
State authorised auditor Lars Ole Lindal from PWC participated in the meeting.
Trond Westlie was elected to chair the meeting.
Benjamin Golding and Lars Peder Fensli were elected to co-sign the General Meeting together with the chairperson.
The election was made in favour.
There were no remarks to the notice or the agenda.
The notice and the agenda were approved.
The annual report for 2023, including the annual accounts for 2023 for the company and the group, the Board of Directors' report and the auditor statement had been made available at the Company's website. The statement on corporate was also included in the annual report.
The Board of Directors' report, as well as the income statement for 2023 and balance sheet as of 31.12.2023 for the parent company and the group and the statement on corporate governance was accounted for. The auditor's statement dated 11 April 2024 was cited.
The Board of Directors' report and the annual accounts for the parent company and group for 2023 were thereafter approved.
The resolution was adopted.
The Board of Directors adopted a new dividend policy in 2020, defined in the Board of Directors' statement on corporate governance, which includes a goal of quarterly distributions of dividends. To factitate a practical and efficient implementation of such a scheme, the 2023 General Meeting authorised the Board of Directors to decide the distribution of dividends in the Company on the basis of the annual accounts for 2022. It had been proposed that the Board of Directors' is granted a corresponding authorisation on the basis of the annual accounts for 2023.
Based on the above, the General Meeting adopted the following resolution:



The resolution was adopted.
The updated guidelines had been made available at the company's website.
The General Meeting resolved to approve the amendments to the guidelines on determination of salaries and other remuneration to management.
The resolution was adopted.
The reports had been made available at the company's website.
An advisory vote was held and the General Meeting endorsed the Board of Directors' report on salaries and other remuneration to management.
The resolution was adopted.
The Company's auditor had calculated and requested a fee of NOK 1,125,000 (excl. VAT) for the financial year 2023.
The General Meeting resolved to cover the auditor's fee as requested.
The resolution was adopted.
In accordance with the Nomination Committee's recommendation, the following remuneration to the Board of Directors was determined, valid as of 15 May 2024:
Chairman of the Board: NOK 900,000 per year Other members: NOK 400,000 per year
The resolution was adopted.
In accordance with the Nomination Commendation, the following remuneration to the Board of Directors' subcommittees was determined, valid as of 15 May 2024:
Audit Committee: Chair: NOK 105,000 per year Other members: NOK 78,000 per year
Remuneration Committee: NOK 80,000 per year Chair: NOK 40,000 per year Other members:
The resolution was adopted.
In accordance with the Nomination Commendation, the following remuneration to the members of the Nomination Committee was determined, valid as of 15 May 2024:
Chair: NOK 34,000 per year NOK 23,000 per year Other members:



The resolution was adopted.
In accordance with the Board of Director's proposal, the General Meeting adopted the following resolution:
The resolution was adopted.
In accordance with the Nomittee recommendation, Arild Nysæther was elected as a new member of the Board of Directors in replacement of Christian Must and other members of the Board of Directors were re-elected for an election period of one year.
After this, the Board of Directors consist of the following members:
In accordance with section 4 of the Articles of Association, the Board of Directors elects its own chair and deputy chair.
All Directors of the Board were elected for an election period of one year.
In accordance with the Nomination Commendation, all current members of the Nomination Committee were reelected.
After this, the Nomination Committee consist of the following members:
All members were re-elected.
In accordance with the Board of Directors' proposal, the General Meeting adopted the following resolution:
The following sentences are added to the very end of § 8 of the Company's Articles of Association:
The Board of Directors may determine that shareholders shall be able to submit written votes, including by electronic communication, in a period prior to the general meeting. The use of such voting procedure is contingent on there being a safe method for authentication of the sender. The Board of Directors may determine further guidelines for the voting procedure.
The following sentences in § 8 of the Company's Articles of Association are deleted:



Sentence three: "Likewise, a general meeting shall be summoned within two weeks in case shareholders representing at least one tenth of the share capital or the auditor requires this in writing and simultaneously states that are requested to be considered.
Sentence eight: "Shareholders that wish to participate in the general meeting must notify this to the company in writing within two days before the general meeting".
The following item in § 9 of the Company's Articles of Association (item 5) is deleted:
"5. Consider the Board of Directors' statement on salary and other remuneration to leading employees."
The current item 6 in § 9 of the Company's Articles of Association is new item 5.
The resolution was adopted.
* * *
After this, no other matters were to be considered, and the General Meeting was adjourned.
15 May 2024
Trond Westlie Chairperson
ars Peder Fensli Elected to co-sign Benjamin Golding Elected to co-sign

15 May 2024
| Registered Attendees: | |
|---|---|
| Total Votes Represented: | 29,350,192 |
| Total Accounts Represented: | 46 |
| Total Voting Capital: | 54,857,339 |
| % Total Voting Capital Represented: | 53.50% |
| Total Capital: | 55,995,250 |
| % Total Capital Represented: | 52.42% |
| Company Own Shares: | 1,137,911 |
| Sub Total: | 29,350,192 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | Registered Attendees | Registered Non-Voting Attendees | Registered Votes | Accounts | |
| Styrets leder med fullmakt | 14,150,907 | 32 | |||
| Styrets leder med instruksjoner | 14.852.525 | ||||
| Forhändsstemmer | 346.760 |
DNB Bank ASA Avdeling Utsteder Martin S. Bråten

As scrutineer appointed for the purpose of the Poll taken at the General Meeting of the Members of the Company held on 15 May 2024, I HEREBY CERTIFY that the result of the Poll is correctly set out as follows:-
| VOTES | 0/0 VOILES |
0/0 | VOTES | VOTES | % ISSUED | NO VOTES | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOR | VOT / | AVSTAR / | TOTAL | VOTING | IN MEETING | |||
| AGAINST | WITHHELD | SHARES | ||||||
| VOTED | ||||||||
| 2 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 3 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 4 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 5 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29.350.192 | 53 50% | 0 0 |
| 6 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | |
| 7 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 8 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 9 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 10 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 11 | 29,350.192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 12 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.1 | 29,004,153 | 98.82 | 346,039 | 1.18 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.2 | 29,349,912 | 100.00 | 280 | 0.00 | 0 | 29.350.192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.3 | 29,349,912 | 100.00 | 280 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.4 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.5 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.6 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 13.7 | 29,350,192 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 14.1 | 28,953,453 | 98.65 | 396,739 | 1.35 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 14.2 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 14.3 | 29,350,187 | 100.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
| 15 | 29,325,192 | 99.91 | 25,000 | 0.09 | 0 | 29,350,192 | 53.50% | 0 |
Martin S. Bråten DNB Bank ASA Avdeling Utsteder

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