AGM Information • May 27, 2022
AGM Information
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The Board of Directors of ČEZ, a. s., a joint-stock company with its registered office at Praha 4, Duhová 2/1444, postcode 140 53, company ID: 45274649, registered in the Commercial Register kept by the convenes an Annual Ordinary General Meeting, which will be held on June 28, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. at the Prague Congress Center, 5. května street no. 65, Prague 4.
The record date for attending the General Meeting is June 21, 2022 (the "Record Date"). The significance of the Record Date is that the right to attend the General Meeting and to exercise the rights of a shareholder, including voting, is vested in each person recorded as a shareholder in the statutory register of investment instruments (Central Securities Depository) on the Record Date, unless it is proven that the record does not correspond to facts as of the Record Date. The extract from the register is to be obtained by the Company.
's venue at 8:30 a.m. on the day the General Meeting is held. Shareholders attend a General Meeting in person or by proxy. In compliance with the Company' Companies and Cooperatives (Business Corporations Act), as amended (the" Business Corporations Act") of individuals that may attend the General Meeting as shareholders or their proxies will be processed in connection with the General Meeting; details are provided on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section.
A power of attorney must be in writing and must indicate whether it was granted for representation at one or several General Meetings. A shareholder may grant a power of attorney by completing a form that the Company will make available in hard copy at the Company's registered office and in electronic form on the Company's website from May 27, 2022 and which contains the basic required details of a power of attorney. For more details, refer to Section 2.e of this Notice.
A shareholder may also notify the Company of the granting or revocation of a power of attorney electronically at [email protected]. Such a notification must be signed with an advanced electronic to Act No. 297/2016 Coll., on trust services for electronic transactions, as amended. A shareholder may also send a notification according to the first sentence of this paragraph signed by the shareholder from their data box to the Company's data box at: yqkcds6. A notification of the granting of a power of attorney must also contain, in pa attorney, if they are individuals; the business name, identification number, and registered office of the principal and the attorney, if they are legal entities; whether the power of attorney is granted to the proxy for representation at the Company's Annual Ordinary General Meeting held on June 28, 2022, or at several
General Meetings; whether the attorney may grant a substitute power of attorney and the date of granting the power of attorney. A notification of the revocation of a power of attorney must contain, in addition to the identification of the principal and the attorney as above, a detailed specification of the revoked power granting date of the power of attorney) and the effective date of the revocation of the power of attorney. If a notification of the granting or revocation of a power of attorney does not allow the Company to assess the compliance of the power of attorney or its revocation with legal requirements or unambiguous identification trust services for electronic transactions, as amended, in e-mail communication), the Company is entitled, but not obliged, to request additional information to prove the shareholder's representation or its revocation. If a shareholder's notification of the granting of a power of attorney to represent the shareholder at the General Meeting meets all specified requirements, the Company will not request that the power of attorney be handed over during shareholder registration.
A shareholder may also be represented at the General Meeting or for the exercise of other rights attached to shares by a person registered in a register of investment instruments or a register of book-entry securities as an administrator and/or as a person authorized to exercise rights attached to a share. The authority of such an administrator or person to represent the shareholder at the General Meeting is evidenced by an extract from such statutory register, which is to be obtained by the Company. This is without prejudice to the obligations of a shareholder, proxy, or attorney during registration at the General Meeting pursuant to the following paragraphs of this Section 1.
If an attorney or an administrator represents more than three shareholders under powers of attorney at the General Meeting, we recommend contacting the Company at [email protected] sufficiently in advance regarding the specification of a procedure for presenting such powers of attorney to the Company and the specification of the number of ballot sets that will be required by the attorney (with respect to possibly different instructions for voting by the shareholders represented by them) in order to ensure seamless shareholder registration on the date of the General Meeting.
A shareholder, who is an individual, proves his/her identity on registration by presenting his/her identity card. A member of the statutory body of a shareholder that is a legal entity proves his/her identity on registration by presenting his/her identity card and submits an original or an authenticated copy of an extract from which the statutory body acts on behalf of the legal entity. In addition, a shareholder's attorney (other than an administrator and/or person authorized to exercise rights attached to a share registered in a register of investment instruments or a register of book-entry securities) is required to submit a written power of authorization in advance in electronic form in accordance with the rules indicated above. A proxy whose right to represent a shareholder is based on a fact other than authorization is required to present documents attesting such right.
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Shareholders may exercise their rights at the General Meeting under the conditions stipulated by law and outlined below, that is to vote, request and receive explanations about matters relating to the Company or entities controlled by the Company if such an explanation is necessary for assessing the matters on the General Meeting agenda or for exercising shareholder rights at the General Meeting, submit proposals and counterproposals and to file protests. Shareholders may exercise such rights in person or by proxy.
The rules of the General Meeting's rules of procedure, which were approved by the General Meeting held
again at the General Meeting, aimed at streamlining the General Meeting. The Company's Board of Directors with the rules of procedure. Main principles of the rules of procedure and related technical measures are described below.
Duration of the General Meeting: Each General Meeting shall, as a general rule, last for a maximum of 10 hours from its opening, whereas this maximum duration shall not include the time when (i) the Board Meeting; (ii) a break is declared in order to prepare responses to the submitted requests for explanations; and (iii) the General Meeting is suspended due to a fact preventing the continuation of its regular course. 1 of this General Meeting's agenda may not be read in full during the course of the General Meeting itself.
If during the General Meeting it becomes clear that it is not possible to discuss all matters on its agenda without exceeding this maximum duration, the Board of Directors is entitled (even repeatedly, or after exceeding this maximum duration) to propose to the General Meeting either (i) suspension of the discussion and the transfer of the outstanding matters to another specified date, time, and place (but not later than the fifth working day following the commencement day of the General Meeting), or (ii) transfer of unresolved matters to the next General Meeting pursuant to Section 409 of the Business Corporations Act. The Board of Directors is obliged to submit to the General Meeting a proposal for any of the above-mentioned decisions whenever it receives an appropriate initiative from the Chairman of the General Meeting. If the General Meeting fails to adopt any of the above decisions, the General Meeting shall continue to be held beyond this so-called maximum duration.
Discussion on requests for explanations: Requests for explanations shall be discussed separately for each relevant item on the General Meeting's agenda, or for several items on the agenda jointly, in two rounds.
Requests for explanation are preferred (but not mandatory) in written form. A shareholder is obliged to submit written submissions containing a request for explanation either before the commencement of the General Meeting by delivering it to the Company, or at the General Meeting via the information center. A shareholder is not entitled to read a written submission containing a request for explanation during their oral address; this is without prejudice to the possibility of using written notes for their oral addresses. A shareholder is obliged to deliver any extensive submissions with requests for explanations (containing more than 10 requests for explanations or clearly exceeding 4 standard pages of text for each individual item on the General Meeting's agenda; the "Extensive Submissions") to the Company in writing at least two working days before the date of commencement of the General Meeting (i.e. until June 24, 2022). Other written requests for explanation to the first round of each of the individual items on the General Meeting's agenda may be delivered no later than one hour from the commencement of the course of the General Meeting. Written requests for explanation, which will be submitted to the Company before the commencement of the course of the General Meeting (including Extensive Submissions), may be delivered by one of the following means: (i) via the Company's data box, (ii) via e-mail to [email protected], (iii) in person to the registry at the Company's registered office at Praha 4, Duhová 2/1444, postcode 140 53 (in case of Extensive Submissions no later than on June 24, 2022, and in case of other written submissions no later than June 27, 2022, always no later than 3:00 p.m.), or (iv) by mail or other delivery services to the same address (in such a case the consignment must be delivered in case of Extensive Submission no later than on June 24, 2022, and in case of other written submission no later than on June 27, 2022).
, during the first or second round of discussions of the requests for explanations, provided that they apply for the relevant round in time and observe other rules set out for individual rounds during their address.
In the first round of each individual item on the General Meeting's agenda, each shareholder may speak only once with their address, whereas the address is limited in time (maximum 10 minutes), and they may submit a maximum of 5 requests for explanation during the address. In addition, they shall be entitled to add an oral rationale or explanation to their requests for explanation submitted in their written submissions. It shall be possible to apply for the first round of each of the individual items on the General Meeting's agenda no later than one hour from the commencement of the course of the General Meeting. A shareholder may apply for the first round of any of the General Meeting's agenda items also prior to the commencement of the General Meeting by one of the following means: (i) via the Company's data box, (ii) via e-mail to valna.hromada@cez. cz, (iii) in person to the registry at the Company's registered office at Praha 4, Duhová 2/1444, postcode
140 53 (no later than June 27, 2022, at 3:00 p.m.), or (iv) by mail or other delivery services to the same address (in such a case the consignment must be delivered no later than on June 27, 2022).
In the second round of individual General Meeting's agenda items, the number of addresses by one shareholder is not limited, but the total duration of all their addresses within an individual General Meeting's agenda item may not exceed 10 minutes. It shall be possible to apply for the oral address always until the given second round of the relevant General Meeting's agenda is terminated (on condition that the shareholder did not use up the total time for oral addresses). The second round ends with the submission of an explanation to all submitted requests for explanation, provided that no other shareholders have applied for their address.
An attorney of several shareholders is considered to be one shareholder for the purposes of the above restrictions.
Providing explanations: The Company will provide the shareholder with an explanation unless no response needs to be given under the law. Explanations may be provided as a summary response to multiple questions with similar contents. The Company will provide to the shareholder explanation on matters relating to the current General Meeting directly at that General Meeting. If that is not possible due to the complexity of the explanation, the Company will provide the explanation to the shareholder within 15 days following the date of the General Meeting. an explanation is deemed as provided to the shareholder even if the information was published on the Company's website no later than on the day preceding the course of the General Meeting and is available to the shareholder at the place of the General Meeting.
Technical measures: During the registration the respective shareholder shall receive a card, which shall requests for explanations, applying for oral addresses and identifying themselves during oral addresses. Such shareholder's card is non-transferable and may be used solely by the shareholder (or their proxy respectively) to whom it was issued. The Company has implemented technical solution, which enables the monitoring of the number of written requests for explanation submitted and the transparent monitoring of the duration of oral addressed of individual shareholders, to ensure the compliance with condition stipulated by the General Meeting's rules of procedure. The Company has prepared for the shareholders basic information on how to use the shareholder's card and an overview of main rules for submitting requests for explanations according to the General Meeting's rules of procedure, which will be available on the Company's website www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section.
Information related to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic: Current measures of public administration allow for the General Meeting to take place without significant restrictions; however, the Company continue to closely monitor the relevant measures. Current information and instructions for shareholders related to the General Meeting will therefore be continuously published on the Company's website www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section.
The Company's registered capital is CZK 53,798,975,900 (in words: fifty-three billion seven hundred ninety-eight million nine hundred seventy-five thousand nine hundred Czech crowns) and is divided into 537 hundred fifty-nine shares), each with a nominal value of CZK 100 (in words: one hundred Czech crowns). One vote is attached to each Company share with a nominal value of CZK 100 (in words: one hundred Czech crowns); the total number of votes attached to Company shares thus amounts to 537,989,759 (in words: five hundred thi y-seven million nine hundred eighty-nine thousand seven hundred fifty-nine). All the shares of the Company are issued as book-entry bearer shares and have been admitted to trading on a European regulated market. Shareholders are not required to exercise the voting rights attached to all their shares in the same manner.
Attending shareholders are registered in an attendance list, specifying the business name or the name and the registered office of the legal entity or the name and the place of residence of the individual that is a shareholder, and/or a proxy of the same, the number and nominal value of shares entitling the shareholder
to vote or, as the case may be, information that such a share does not entitle its holder to vote. Shareholders -legal entities with registered office in the Czech Republic and legal arrangements that are obliged to register the beneficial owner according to Act No. 37/2021 Coll., on the registration of beneficial owners, and that will have no beneficial owner according to the above act registered as of the date of the General Meeting, shall not be entitled to exercise at the General Meeting the voting rights attached to their shares. The Company will also take appropriate action if a shareholder is or will be placed on a sanctions or other similar list and inclusion on such a list will under applicable law restrict or prohibit attendance at, or the exercise of voting or other rights at this General Meeting.
Voting at the General Meeting takes place after the General Meeting has been informed of all shareholder proposals and counterproposals duly and timely submitted for the item on the General Meeting agenda that is to be voted on; firstly, the Board of Directors' proposal is voted on; secondly, the Supervisory Board's proposal is voted on; thirdly, proposals and counterproposals submitted by shareholders are voted on in the order of submission. Once a submitted proposal is approved, no other proposals or counterproposals contradicting the approved proposal are voted on. Debate and/or voting on other matters proceed in
Voting is executed by ballot according to instructions given by the chairperson of the General Meeting. In their ballot, each shareholder makes their choice for a proposed resolution that is voted on by crossing through "FOR" or "AGAINST" and signing the ballot. If a shareholder wishes to abstain from voting, they do not submit their ballot. Unsigned ballots are invalid. Ballots that do not allow identifying the shareholder's will are also invalid. If a shareholder submits an invalid ballot or a ballot other than the one that should have been used for voting on the given item, the shareholder is deemed to abstain from voting.
The General Meeting decides by a simple majority of votes of attending shareholders, unless the law or the
A shareholder may submit proposals and counterproposals on matters included in the General Meeting agenda, unless the impossibility to submit a proposal or counterproposal by the shareholder arises from the nature of the matter in question. If a shareholder wishes to submit a proposal or counter-proposal to the matters on the General Meeting agenda, such proposal or counterproposal must be delivered to the Company in writing no later than 10 days before the General Meeting is held by one of the following means: (i) via the Company's data box, (ii) via e-mail to [email protected], (iii) in person to the registry at the Company's registered office at Praha 4, Duhová 2/1444, postcode 140 53, or (iv) by mail or other delivery services to the same address (in case of proposals or counter-proposals delivered via data box or e-mail [email protected] no later than on Saturday June, 18, 2022, in case of proposals or counter-proposals delivered in person to the registry or by mail or other delivery services the consignment must be delivered no later than on Friday, June 17, 2022, whereas on the last day of the period for delivery the registry will accept personal filings until 3:00 p.m.). The 10-day deadline prior to the General Meeting does not apply and counterproposals concerning such persons. The Board of Directors will publish the proposals and counterproposal (including their rationale, if any) delivered within the above deadline together with the Board of Director's position on the Company's website www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section. Proposals and counterproposals received after the above deadline will not be discussed at the General Meeting; this is without prejudice to Section 362 of the Business Corporations Act.
If so requested by a Company shareholder or shareholders holding shares whose total nominal value is at least 1% of the Company's registered capital, the Board of Directors will include a matter requested by them in the General Meeting agenda provided that each such matter is supplied with a draft resolution or a rationale for inclusion. The request must be delivered to the Company no later than 10 days before the record date by one of the following means: (i) via the Company's data box, (ii) via e-mail to valna.hromada@ cez.cz, (iii) in person to the registry at the Company's registered office at Praha 4, Duhová 2/1444, postcode 140 53, or (iv) by mail or other delivery services to the same address (in case of requests delivered via data
box or e-mail [email protected] no later than on Saturday, June 11, 2022, in case of requests delivered in person to the registry or by mail or other delivery services the consignment must be delivered no later than on Friday, June 10, 2022, whereas on the last day of the period for delivery the registry will accept personal filings until 3:00 p.m.).
From no later than May 27, 2022, to the date of the General Meeting (inclusive), shareholders may:
The e-mail address [email protected] is reserved solely for the purposes listed herein.
Information for shareholders will also be provided at the General Meeting venue's the date of the General Meeting as follows:
The Company has complied with its publication obligation in relation to the documents regarding the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section (see also the third bullet above of this Section). The Company advises the shareholders that they arrange
in advance access to such published documents for the duration of the General Meeting, if they consider it necessary for the exercise of their shareholder rights, by own print or, as the case may be, on their own electronic equipment (tablets, mobile phones, laptops, etc.).
's Business Activities is presented to the General Meeting in compliance with the Company's Aicles of Association. Fuher the Summary Repo pursuant to Section 118(9) of the Act No. 256/2004 Sb., Capital Market Undeakings Act, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "CMUA" or the "Capital Market Undeakings Act") and Conclusions of the Related Paies Repo are presented to the General Meeting in compliance with the law and the Company'
Fu is presented to the General Meeting in compliance with the law and the Company's A Company's annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and on the proposal for the distribution of the Company' icle 18(5)(c) of the Company' '
compliance with the Company'
There is no draft resolution submitted within this agenda item, as this agenda item is not voted on.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approves the financial statements of ČEZ, a. s., prepared as of December 31, 2021.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the act and the Company's A icles of Association, the Board of Directors submits to the General Meeting the financial statements of ČEZ, a. s., and the consolidated financial statements of CEZ Group as of December 31, 2021.
Pursuant to Sec. 19a and Sec. 23a of the Accounting Act, the financial statements of ČEZ, a. s., and the consolidated financial statements of CEZ Group as of December 31, 2021, were prepared in accordance with International Financial Repo ing Standards. Both sets of prepared financial statements comprise, respectively, the following financial statements, or the consolidated financial statements: a balance sheet, a statement of income, a statement of comprehensive income, a statement of changes in equity, and a statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, or notes to the consolidated financial statements. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Accounting Act, the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements have been audited by an independent auditor. The audit was pe Young Audit, s.r.o. According to the independent auditor's opinion dated March 14, 2022, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of ČEZ, a. s., as at ing Standards as adopted by the European Union. According to the independent auditor's opinion dated March 14, 2022, the consolidated financial statements give a true and fair view of the consolidated financial position of CEZ Group as at December 31, 2021, and of its consolidated
the Company's website. The data from the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements, i.e. the balance sheet, statement of income, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, and statement of cash flows, are also presented within the documents on this agenda item of the General Meeting of the Company published on the Company's website www.cez.cz under the link "Investors" in the section of "General Meetings" concerning the General Meeting of 2022.
Financial statements were discussed by the Board of Directors of ČEZ, a. s., audited by an independent auditor giving the opinions cited above, and reviewed by the Company's Supervisory Board concluding Board of Directors proposes that the General Meeting approve the financial statements of ČEZ, a. s., as of December 31, 2021 and the consolidated financial statements of CEZ Group as of December 31, 2021.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approves the distribution of the Company's 2021 profit amounting to
Share in profit to be distributed to shareholders (the "dividend") ....... CZK 23,671,549,396.00
The dividend is CZK 44 per share before tax.
The record date for entitlement to the dividend is July 4, 2022. Entities that will be shareholders of the Company as at the record date for entitlement to the dividend will be entitled to the dividend.
The above-mentioned amount of the dividend is calculated from the total number of Company shares issued. The dividend allocated to treasury shares held by the Company as at the record date for entitlement to the dividend will not be paid. The amount corresponding to the dividend on treasury shares held by the Company as at the record date for entitlement to the dividend will be transferred to the retained earnings account.
The dividend is payable on August 1, 2022. The dividend will be paid through Česká spořitelna, a.s., company reg. No. 45244782, having its registered office at Olbrachtova 1929/62, Praha 4, postcode 140 00, in the manner presented to this General Meeting and published on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section. The dividend payment ends on July 31, 2026.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approves a change in the method of payment of profit shares (dividends) approved by the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., for distribution to the shareholders of ČEZ, a. s.:
in a way that from August 1, 2022 onwards, dividends approved for distribution to shareholders in the years 2019 to 2021, if the shareholders are still entitled to their payment on August 1, 2022, shall be paid in the manner presented to this General Meeting for the purpose of paying dividend approved for distribution to shareholders at this General Meeting and published on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section. Dividend payment deadlines and the possibility of paying dividends in cash after December 31, 2022, according to individual resolutions of the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approving the distribution of profit to shareholders in 2019 to 2021 remain unaffected.
distribution of profit are within the powers of the General Meeting. The proposal for the distribution of
the profit of ČEZ, a. s., as presented by the Board of Directors to the General Meeting for approval is in
The submitted proposal for the distribution of profit to shareholders (hereinafter referred to as the "dividend") is based on the dividend policy in force, defining the dividend payment in the amount derived from CEZ Group's consolidated net income for the past year, and also reflects the proceeds from the sale of Bulgarian assets. Therefore, the submitted proposal has two components of the total dividend— ordinary and extraordinary.
The Company's current dividend policy assumes a dividend of 80–100% of CEZ Group's consolidated net income adjusted for extraordinary effects. CEZ Group's adjusted consolidated net income for 2021 reached CZK 22.3 billion. From this base, an ordinary dividend component of CZK 37 per share, i.e. CZK 19.9 billion was set, corresponding to approximately 90% of the adjusted consolidated net income for 2021. In addition, an extraordinary dividend component of CZK 7 per share, i.e. CZK 3.8 billion, was established to reflect the contribution of the sale of Bulgarian assets to the total debt capacity of CEZ Group.
The Board of Directors proposal for the distribution of the profit of ČEZ, a. s., complies with the legal requirements and reflects the current strategy and accounts for the current outlook for and stability of estimated cash flows with the aim of maintaining CEZ Group's medium-term financial stability.
for shareholders to submit written requests for dividend payment not only by post, but also (newly) (i) by There is also an increase in the limit of the amount of dividend due to a shareholder—a natural person with signature on the application sent by post, as well as to simplify the procedure in relation to the submission of extracts from public registers for legal entities with a registered office in the Czech Republic and in relation to the register of beneficial owners, since shareholders who are legal entities with a registered office in the Czech Republic or legal arrangements which are obliged to enter the beneficial owner in the relevant register pursuant to Act No. 37/2021 Sb., on the registration of beneficial owners, as amended, will no longer be obliged to submit an extract from the register of beneficial owners together with the application for payment of the dividend. The content of the entry in the Czech Public Register and the Register of Beneficial Owners will be verified by Česká spořitelna, a.s., in the case of these shareholders. At the same time, the cash payment of dividends is being phased out due to the excessive costs consisting in the increase in fees associated with this method of payment. Therefore, cash dividend payment will be possible only until December 31, 2022, at any branch of Česká spořitelna, a.s., with a cash desk in the Czech Republic, and from January 1, 2023, payment will be made only in cashless form upon a written request of the shareholder.
The Board of Directors proposes that the terms and conditions for the payment of profit shares (dividends) submitted for approval at this General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., be applicable also to the payment of dividends approved for distribution to ČEZ, a. s., shareholders in the years 2019 to 2021 (except for the possibility of cash payment, which will remain the same for these dividends after December 31, 2022). The Board of Directors considers it appropriate to unify the conditions under which the dividend is paid to shareholders, for dividend payments. As a result of the proposed change in the method of payment of dividends approved for distribution to shareholders by the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., in the years 2019 to 2021, there is no nor make them more stringent than the existing terms of payment. If the shareholders meet the original conditions for dividend payments (approved by the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., in the years 2019 to 2021), the share of profit approved for distribution to shareholders in those years will be paid to them also on the basis of the amended conditions.
The Supervisory Board reviewed the Board of Directors' presented proposal for the distribution of the profit of ČEZ, a. s., recommending that the General Meeting approve it.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approves a 2023 donations budget of CZK 150 million.
The proposal made by the Board of Directors is a follow-up to CEZ Group's long-term philanthropic activities. Donation activities reflect CEZ Group's social responsibility, while also being a means for promoting the Company's positive image.
In the area of donations, CEZ Group has long been guided by the motto "We help where we operate". For the regions in the immediate vicinity of our generating and distribution facilities, we want to be a reliable and good neighbor that contributes to improving the quality of everyday life of the local residents. Through direct also reaches people in need and with disabilities.
including contributions to cover their operating costs or their own professional development. It thus contributes to the cultivation and professionalization of the entire nonprofit sector in the Czech Republic.
In May 2021, CEZ Group updated its long-term strategy and formulated ambitious goals under the title Vision 2030—Clean Energy of Tomorrow. In the area of social relations, one of the publicly stated goals is to continue to be a good corporate citizen that develops good relationships with communities. A thoughtful and strategic donor program makes a significant contribution to this goal.
At the same time, it is one of the ways in which CEZ Group helps the Czech Republic to meet the global UN nurseries, primary and secondary schools, local libraries, cultural facilities and social and cultural events), reduction of educational gaps for children from disadvantaged families), Goal 11 (Sustainable cities and organizations, various events and activities to improve the environment, etc. ). The Czech Republic ranked 12th on the global SDG Index in 2021.
The ČEZ Foundation, as one of the earliest corporate foundations, has been helping throughout the Czech Republic for 20 years. For municipalities, hospitals, schools and nursery schools, as well as not-fordevelopment. Every year it makes calls for grant applications to respond to society's current needs and Governance) criteria emphasizes, among other things, the development of community relations, which the ČEZ Foundation has been taking care of through its donor program for two decades.
In seven years of operation, the EPP—Help with Movement mobile app has already gained 589,000 users
ČEZ also actively involves its employees in donation activities. Two employee fundraisers were held in 2021. In July, an extraordinary collection was organized to help people affected by the devastating tornado in South Moravia. Almost CZK 2.8 million was raised. The Foundation doubled the amount to a total of CZK 5.5 million. In the traditional collection "Granting Wishes, Thinking about Others", employees contributed CZK 3.4 million.
The ČEZ Foundation doubled this amount as well, and the aid was directed to 109 people who found themselves in a difficult life situation due to a serious illness or injury.
social factor in monitoring the ESG criteria.
Amendment of terms for financial donations in 2022:
On June 28, 2021, the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approved a budget of CZK 110 million that the Company may use to provide donations in 2022.
The ČEZ Foundation always responds to the current social situation and offers a helping hand where it is most needed. In February this year, for example, we provided an extraordinary crisis grant to municipalities to help them cope with the refugee wave related to the war in Ukraine. There are signs from the nonprofit sector that this year will be very challenging for many organizations and associations, in pa due to the ongoing turmoil in the energy market, which is contributing significantly to rising energy prices.
Therefore, we are proposing that the 2022 donations budget be increased by CZK 40 million, which is to be transferred to the ČEZ Foundation.
Proposed terms for financial donations in 2022:
The total amount of funds that the Company can use to give donations in 2022 will be CZK 150 million.
policy of CEZ Group and ČEZ, a. s. shall be presented to the General Meeting for approval. The proposed updated business policy of CEZ Group and ČEZ, a. s. reflects the current trends in the energy sector and considers CEZ Group' and risks. The text of the updated version of the Business Policy of CEZ Group and ČEZ, a. s., is published on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the "Investors" link, in the subsection concerning the 2022 General Meeting in the "General Meetings" section.
With effect from the day following the day when this General Meeting ends, the General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., decided to amend the Company's Aicles of Association as follows:
In Aicle 14 (9) letter (r) and in Aicle 14 (10) letter (i) of the Aicles of Association the words " pursuant to the Public Procurement Act" are replaced by the words "pursuant to the Act on Public Contracts Award".
The current wording of Aicle 14 (11) letter (d) of the Aicles of Association is replaced by the following wording:
"d) long-term agreements for the purchase, sale and transit of electricity concluded for a period exceeding 3 years or if their value in each individual case exceeds CZK 3,000,000,000 (in words: three billion Czech crowns), agreements for the purchase of distribution and transmission services
concerning electricity, agreements on the provision of suppoing services under the Power Act, agreements for the purchase and sale of commodity derivatives and on the provision of commodity trade services, agreements for the purchase and sale of greenhouse gas emission allowances, agreements for purchase, sale, storage and transit of natural gas, agreements for the purchase of distribution and transmission services concerning natural gas and agreements for the purchase and sale of heat, all the foregoing if their value in each individual case exceeds CZK 3,000,000,000 (in words: three billion Czech crowns); in addition, the board of directors is obligated to advise members of the supervisory board in advance about the intent to make such agreement;"
The Board of Directors submits a proposal to amend the Aicles of Association of the Company in accordance with Section 421 (2) letter a) of the Business Corporations Act and Aicle 8 (1) letter a) of the Aicles of Association.
The purpose of the proposed amendment to the Aicles of Association is:
The effectiveness of the amendments to the Aicles of Association is proposed from the day following the day when this General Meeting ends. The proposed amendments to the Aicles of Association are set out directly in the draft resolution and if the draft resolution is adopted, the Board of Directors will draw up a new full version of the Aicles of Association in accordance with the law. In addition, the Board of Directors has prepared a working document outlining all amendments to the current wording of the Aicles of Association – this document is published on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the link "For Investors" in the section "General Meetings", in the pa related to the 2022 General Meeting. In this context, the Board of Directors points out that this working document is not intended to be used for voting and is intended only to improve shareholder orientation and information.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s., approves the template service contract of a Supervisory Board member of ČEZ, a. s., as presented to the General Meeting by the Company's Board of Directors.
In accordance with Section 421(2)(p) together with Section 59(2) of the Business Corporations Act and template service contracts of the Supervisory Board members and of the Audit Committee members for approval.
The new template service contracts of the Supervisory Board members and of the Audit Committee members are based on the template service contracts approved by the Company's General Meeting on June 3, 2016, and the purpose of the proposed amendments is:
Service contracts concluded with newly elected Supervisory Board members and Audit Committee members will use the relevant template contract wording approved by the General Meeting (amended to include specific identification information), which means that it will no longer be necessary to present such contracts to the General Meeting for approval individually. The template service contract will also be reflected in the contents of contractual relations between the Company and previously elected Supervisory Board members and Audit Committee members.
The new template service contract for the Supervisory Board members and the new template service of the General Meeting notice and are published on the Company's website at www.cez.cz under the link "For Investors" in the section "General Meetings", in the pa related to the 2022 General Meeting.
The General Meeting of ČEZ, a. s. approves the Remuneration Repo ČEZ, a. s., for the accounting period of 2021, as submitted to the General Meeting by the Company's Board of Directors.
the General Meeting by the Board of Directors in accordance with the provisions of 121(o)(3) of the CMUA.
In this context, the Board of Directors shall submit to this General Meeting for approval the Remuneration
approved by the Company's General Meeting on June 29, 2020, and which was the first remuneration policy submitted to the General Meeting after Act No. 204/2019 Sb., which amended the CMUA in this respect, the remuneration not only of the current members of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board, but also of former members who were granted remuneration in 2021. The Company did not deviate from the Remuneration Policy of ČEZ, a. s., approved by the Company's General Meeting on June 29, 2020, in remunerating the members of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board in 2021. The Remuneration
2021 will be published on the Company's website in accordance with the CMUA.
This item will be discussed depending on proposals possibly submitted by shareholders. Service contracts will be concluded with newly elected members of the Supervisory Board using the template wording approved by the Company's General Meeting.
The Board of Directors would also like to point out that this item on the General Meeting's agenda anticipates potentially voting on two relatively independent sets of issues, namely the removal of current members of the Supervisory Board and the election of new members. The two sets will be debated separately, meaning that if proposals are submitted on this item, any proposals to remove members of the Supervisory Board proposals for the election of new members of the Supervisory Board be voted on in the appropriate order. It is therefore needed that shareholders submit any proposals to elect or remove members of the Supervisory Board separately.
The foregoing procedure will ensure, among other things, that it is clear in advance how many vacancies on the Supervisory Board, arisen after the potential removal of existing members, can be filled by electing new members.
This item will be discussed depending on proposals possibly submitted by shareholders. Service contracts will be concluded with newly elected members of the Audit Committee using the template wording approved by the Company's General Meeting.
The Board of Directors would also like to point out that this item on the General Meeting's agenda anticipates potentially voting on two relatively independent sets of issues, namely the removal of current members of the Audit Committee and the election of new members. The two sets will be debated separately, meaning that if proposals are submitted on this item, any proposals to remove members of the Audit Committee proposals for the election of new members of the Audit Committee be voted on in the appropriate order.
It is therefore needed that shareholders submit any proposals to elect or remove members of the Audit Committee separately.
The foregoing procedure will ensure, among other things, that it is clear in advance how many vacancies on the Audit Committee, arisen after the potential removal of existing members, can be filled by electing new members.
Board of Directors of ČEZ, a. s.
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