AGM Information • Apr 7, 2021
AGM Information
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| To: | The Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority Financial Instruments and Investments Sector |
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| The Bucharest Stock Exchange | |
| Regulated Spot Market, Category Int'l (Shares) | |
| From | DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. |
pursuant to Law no. 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations and to the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority no. 5/2018 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, and the relevant provisions of the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code
| Report date: | 6 April 2021 |
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| Name of the issuing entity: | DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. (the "Company") |
| Statutory seat: | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Visiting address: | Bucharest, 75 Dr. N. Staicovici, Forum 2000 Building, th floor, 5th District, Romania Phase I, 4 |
| Phone/Fax number: | +4031.400.65.05/ +4031.400.65.06 |
| Registration number with The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce Business Register and Dutch Legal Entities and Partnerships Identification Number (RSIN): |
Registration number with The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce Business Register: 34132532/29.03.2000 RSIN: 808800322 |
| Romanian Tax Registration Code: | RO 37449310 |
| Share Capital: | EUR 6,810,042.52 |
| Number of shares in issue: | 100,000,000 (out of which (i) 64,556,028 class A shares with a nominal value of ten eurocents (€ 0.10) each and (ii) 35,443,972 class B shares, with a nominal value of one eurocent (€ 0.01) each) |
| Number of listed shares: | 35,443,972 class B shares |
| Regulated market on which the issued securities are traded: |
Bucharest Stock Exchange, Main Segment, Category Int'l (Shares) |
Important events to be reported: Convocation of the Company's general shareholders meeting for 18 May 2021 for the approval of, among others, the 2020 Annual Report and of the 2020 Financial Statements, which are also available on the Company's website
The Company would like to inform the market and its investors that today, 6 April 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company convenes the general shareholders meeting (the "GSM") of the Company (Digi Communications N.V.), to be held on Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 14:00 p.m. CEST (15:00 p.m. EEST), at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (Amsterdam office), Strawinskylaan 10, 1077 XZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The main topics for the GSM are the following:
We kindly invite the market to visit the Company's website at http://www.digi-communications.ro/en/general-share-holders (for English readers) and at http://www.digi-communications.ro/ro/aga (for Romanian readers) to review the documentation package for the GSM.
The above-mentioned section from the Company's website also contain the English and Romanian complete versions of the 2020 Annual Report, the 2020 Consolidated and Stand-alone Financial Statements of the Company, as well as the Independent Auditor's Report.
The document named 'Agenda and explanatory notes' contains detailed descriptions regarding the items for the GSM.
Any shareholder interested in attending or voting at the GSM needs to follow the procedures set out in the articles of association of the Company (available at http://www.digicommunications.ro/en/corporate-governance) and on the 'Convocation Notice' available at http://www.digi-communications.ro/en/general-share-holders).
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1. Opening
Remuneration Report for 2020 (advisory, non-binding vote)
Proposal to appoint Ernst & Young Accountants, LLP, Netherlands as the statutory auditor of the Company for the financial year 2021 (voting item)
Designation of the Board of Directors as the competent body to repurchase Class B Shares (voting item)
Authorize the Board of Directors to decide upon the award of stock options to executive and non – executive directors of the Company (voting item)
In light of the public health risks arising from outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and restrictive measures in the Netherlands and elsewhere implemented to reduce gatherings of people and travel, the Company urges its shareholders (which for the purpose of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights) not to attend the AGM in person. You do not need to be present to cast your vote at the AGM on 18 May 2021. Instead, please give your voting instructions by proxy or through the Evote by ING. (https://evote.ingwb.com ) – as set out in more detail below.
The Company acknowledges that constraints caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus restrict the physical presence of its shareholders at the AGM on 18 May 2021 and thus to ask questions at the AGM. For this reason, shareholders who decide not to attend the AGM on 18 May 2021 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and who wish to submit questions regarding items on the AGM agenda, may submit their questions by email to [email protected] up to 12:00 pm CET on Tuesday, 27 April 2021, (1:00 pm in Romania). The e-mail must include the name, surname, number of shares held by the shareholder on the record date for the AGM and the AGM agenda item to which the question relates.
The agenda for the AGM and the explanatory notes thereto together with the Annual Report 2020 are available on the website of the Company (www.digi-communications.ro) from 6 April 2021 onwards and are, with effect from the same date, available for inspection and obtainable free of charge at the offices of the Company (tel. +40314006505 and address: 75 Dr. N. Staicovici Street, fourth floor, Bucharest, Romania).
Shareholders (which for the purposes of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights) are entitled to attend and vote at the AGM (either in person or by proxy) if they (i) are registered in one of the (sub)registers as described below on the 28th day prior to the AGM and therefore on Tuesday 20 April 2021 (the Record Date) after all debit and credit entries have been handled and (ii) in addition have notified the Company of their intended attendance at the AGM in the manner mentioned below. The designated (sub)registers are the
administration records of the Romanian Central Depository (Depozitarul Central S.A.), and the shareholders' register of the Company.
Class A shares: holders of registered class A shares (which for the purposes of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of these shares) who wish to attend the AGM (either in person or by proxy) must notify the Company of their intended attendance, which notice, accompanied where applicable by written power of attorney (see below), must have been received by Mrs. Andra Gunescu, the Company's secretary (address: 75 Dr. N. Staicovici Street, fourth floor, Bucharest, Romania and e-mail [email protected]) no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST. Duly registered shareholders will receive a receipt confirmation supplied by the Company which together with a valid identification document will also serve as admission ticket for the AGM.
Class B shares: holders of class B shares (which for the purpose of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of these shares) who wish to attend the AGM (either in person or by proxy) must notify the Company by registering via the Evote by ING (https://evote.ingwb.com) no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST. Duly registered shareholders will receive a receipt confirmation supplied by ING Bank N.V. which together with a valid identification document will also serve as admission ticket for the AGM.
Class A shareholders: holders of registered class A shares (which for the purpose of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of those shares) who will not participate in person to the meeting or be represented by their own representative may grant a proxy to, on behalf of the relevant class A shareholder, attend the AGM, to sign the attendance list, to speak and to cast a vote at that meeting on the voting items on the agenda in accordance with the voting instructions provided by the relevant holder, all with the right of substitution to:
The holder of shares A will notify the Company of an electronic copy of the proxy at the following e-mail address: [email protected] no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST.
Class B shares: The holders of class B shares (which for the purposes of the AGM includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of those shares) who will not participate to the meeting in person or be represented by their own representative can:
(i) grant a power of attorney to Mrs. Andra Gunescu (to be obtained via Evote by ING (https://evote.ingwb.com)) who will be authorized to, on behalf of the relevant holder, with the right of substitution, to attend the AGM, to sign the attendance list, to speak and to cast a vote at that meeting on the voting items on the agenda in accordance with the voting instructions provided by the relevant holder.
The duly completed and executed power of attorney must be received by the Company for the attention of Mrs. Andra Gunescu, Dr. N. Staicovici 75, fourth floor, Bucharest, Romania, or by email: [email protected], no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST.
(ii) give voting instructions via Evote by ING (https://evote.ingwb.com), no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST.
Only holders of class B shares (which for the purpose of this notice includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of those shares) may also give voting instructions via https://evote.ingwb.com no later than by Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 5.00 pm EEST.
Persons entitled to attend the AGM (which includes persons granted with a proxy in the manner as described above) will be requested to identify themselves at the Registration Desk prior to admission to the AGM and are therefore requested to bring a valid identity document.
At the day of this convocation, the Company has an issued share capital of EUR 6,810,042.52 consisting of 64,556,028 Class A Shares, each having a nominal value of EUR 0.10 and 35,443,972 Class B Shares, each share having a nominal value of EUR 0.01. 4,409,361 Class A Shares and 871,726 Class B Shares are held by the Company in its own share capital (in treasury). No votes may be cast for shares held by the Company in its own share capital. Therefore, the total number of voting rights at the day of this convocation amounts to 636,038,916.
Serghei Bulgac Digitally signed by Serghei Bulgac Date: 2021.04.06 18:34:33 +03'00'
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