AGM Information • Apr 27, 2021
AGM Information
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The Annual General Meeting of DNB ASA was held on 27 April 2021 at 15:00. The Annual General Meeting was held digitally in keeping with the interim act on exceptions to the requirement for physical attendance etc. set out in the business legislation, to limit the consequences of the outbreak of COVID-19.
The number of shareholders and proxies present was 59. These represented 657 260 882 own shares and 306 060 564 shares owned by others. In addition, votes representing 96 490 744 shares were given in advance. A total of 1 059 812 190 shares were represented. A list of attending shareholders is attached to these minutes.
Chair of the Board, Olaug Svarva, Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kjerstin Braathen, and the company's statutory auditor EY, represented by Anders Gobel, were also present.
The meeting was opened by the Chair of the Board, Olaug Svarva. Reidar Sandal was elected presiding chair.
The notice and agenda were approved.
Pernille Moen, who represented Folketrygdfondet, was elected to sign the minutes along with the presiding chair.
The Annual General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposed annual accounts and directors' report for 2020.
The Annual General meeting made the following resolution:
"The Board of Directors is authorised to decide on the distribution of dividends on the basis of the company's annual accounts for 2020, cf. section 8-2 subsection 2 of the Norwegian Public Limited Liability Companies Act.
The authorisation gives the right to decide on the distribution of dividends of up to NOK 9 per share.
The authorisation is valid from 1 October 2021 until the Annual General Meeting in 2022."
The Annual General meeting made the following resolution:
"The Board of Directors of DNB ASA is authorised to repurchase its own shares with a total nominal value of up to NOK 620 146 008, which corresponds to 4.0 per cent of the share capital, pursuant to section 9-4 of the Norwegian Public Limited Liability Companies Act.
Each share is to be purchased at a price of between NOK 10 and NOK 250. The shares must be purchased in the market and redeemed through a reduction in capital. The shares that are acquired from the Government will be directly redeemed, following a separate agreement with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries.
The Board of Directors of DNB Bank ASA will be granted a separate authorisation from the bank's Annual General Meeting to acquire shares and/or an agreed pledge on shares in DNB ASA, with an upper limit of 0.5 per cent of the share capital. This limit is part of the authorisation granted to the Board of Directors of DNB ASA, so that DNB ASA can, at most, acquire shares for a total nominal value corresponding to 3.5 per cent of the share capital.
This authorisation is valid until the company's Annual General Meeting in 2022. The authorisation may not be used until it has been approved by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet)."
The Annual General Meeting endorsed the statement on remunerations to senior executives in 2020.
The Annual General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' guidelines for the remuneration of senior executives.
The presiding chair read the following statement from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries:
NFD has considered the Board's guidelines for determining salaries and other remuneration to the executive personnel s for the coming financial year in light of the state's position on executive salaries, as described in "The State's guidelines for salaries and other remuneration to executive personnel in companies with state ownership", and the new provisions on board's guidelines as stated in asal. § 6-16a with associated regulations. The State's guidelines are intended to express the factors the State will emphasize when management salaries are discussed and voted on at the company's annual general meeting. The guidelines states that a remuneration scheme with variable pay must be transparent and clearly understandable. NFD also refers to the new provisions in asal. § 6-16 a. which among other subjects is advocating for more transparency concerning the salary guidelines in companies, in order to create a better connection between the management's remuneration and the company results and to endorse the company's long-term interests. We have had a good dialogue with DNB about the Board's guidelines on executive pay. As part of the dialogue, NFD has provided input which the Board has considered. We appreciate that the Board has taken some of these into account. However, the way in which DNB's variable remuneration scheme is presented in the Board's guidelines, it states only to a smaller extent the weighting and inflection points for the various performance criteria, nor is there, as far as we can see, a sufficiently descriptive text to clarify the scheme. It is still challenging to understand how the variable remuneration scheme has an incentive effect and is actually variable. However, the Board writes in the guidelines that more comprehensive information on the variable remuneration scheme will be presented in the salary report for next year. We assume this will contribute to a better understanding of the variable remuneration scheme. We also view it positively that the Board will continue to work on its guidelines until next year's annual general meeting. On this background NFD votes in favor of the Board's guidelines."
The Annual General Meeting duly noted the account of the Group's corporate governance principles and practice.
The Annual General Meeting approved the auditor's remuneration for the audit of DNB ASA of NOK 618 000 for 2020.
The Annual General Meeting endorsed the continuation of the Articles of Association adopted as part of the merger plan, which stipulate a maximum of eight shareholder-elected members of the Board of Directors.
The Annual General Meeting endorsed the recommendation of the Election Committee to the Annual General Meeting of DNB Bank ASA.
The Annual General Meeting re-elected Gro Bakstad as a member of the Board of Directors of DNB ASA with a term of office until the date of completion of the merger between DNB ASA and DNB Bank ASA.
Following this, the Board of Directors of DNB ASA will have the following members until the completion of the merger:
Olaug Svarva (Chair of the Board) Svein Richard Brandtzaeg (Vice Chair of the Board) Gro Bakstad (re-elected) Jaan lvar Semlitsch Jens Petter Olsen
Lillian Hattrem (employee representative) Stian Tegler Samuelsen (employee representative) Ann-Mari Saeterlid ( deputy employee representative) Sigmund Hollerud (deputy employee representative)
Item 12 Approval of remuneration for members of the Board of Directors and the Election Committee The Annual General Meeting endorsed the recommendation of the Annual General Meeting of DNB Bank ASA.
Below is a detailed overview of the votes cast for each item, including, among other things, the number of votes for and against the respective decisions, cf. section 5-16 of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act.
Reidar Sandal thanked everyone for attending. The Annual General Meeting was then adjourned.
Oslo, 27 April 2021
Reidar Sandal
Pernille Moen
(Signed in Norwegian only)
The Chairman DNB ASAAGM
27 April 2021
Dear Sir,
As scrutineer appointed for the purpose of the Poll taken at the Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company held on 27 April 2021, I HEREBY CERTIFY that the result of the Poll is correctly set out as follows:-
| lssued share capital: 1,550,365,021 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOTES | % | VOTES | % | VOTES | VOTES | % oflSC | NO | ||
| FOR/ FOR |
MOT I | AVSTAR I | TOTAL | VOTED | VOTES | ||||
| 1 | 921,196,822 | 100.00 | 8 | 0.00 | 138,570,666 | 1,059,767,496 | 68.36% | 44,694 | |
| 2 | 1,059,734,059 | 100.00 | 8 | 0.00 | 33,429 | 1,059,767,496 | 68.36% | 44,694 | |
| 3 | 1,059,732,289 | 100.00 | 8 | 0.00 | 40,429 | 1,059,772,726 | 68.36% | 39,464 | |
| 4 | 1,059,572,570 | 99.99 | 155,060 | 0.01 | 46,888 | 1,059,774,518 | 68.36% | 37,672 | |
| 5 | 1,059,474,028 | 99.97 | 324,855 | 0.03 | 9,084 | 1,059,807,967 | 68.36% | 4,223 | |
| 6 | 1,057,184,362 | 99.78 | 2,310,627 | 0.22 | 285,502 | 1,059,780,491 | 68.36% | 31,699 | |
| 7a) | 1,036,794,147 | 97.92 | 22,005,681 | 2.08 | 973,771 | 1,059,773,599 | 68.36% | 38,591 | |
| 7b) | 1,040,256,885 | 98.25 | 18,532,254 | 1.75 | 978,887 | 1,059,768,026 | 68.36% | 44,164 | |
| 8 | 1,059,248,003 | 99.96 | 412,038 | 0.04 | 95,943 | 1,059,755,984 | 68.36% | 56,206 | |
| 9 | 1,028,104,857 | 97.02 | 31,594,468 | 2.98 | 57,594 | 1,059,756,919 | 68.36% | 55,271 | |
| 10 | 830,229,997 | 79.27 | 217,170,416 | 20.73 | 12,353,997 | 1,059,754,410 | 68.36% | 57,780 | |
| 11a) | 991,664,658 | 94.02 | 63,087,063 | 5.98 | 5,002,149 | 1,059,753,870 | 68.36% | 58,320 | |
| 11b) | 991, 122,570 | 93.97 | 63,632,846 | 6.03 | 5,001,882 | 1,059,757,298 | 68.36% | 54,892 | |
| 12 | 1,059,291,053 | 99.96 | 396,956 | 0.04 | 69,829 | 1,059,757,838 | 68.36% | 54,352 |
Yours faithfully,
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DNB Bank ASA Issuer Services
DNB Group Audit
| Attendance Summary Report | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Attendees: | 62 | ||
| Total Votes Represented: | 1,059,812,190 | ||
| Total Accounts Represented: | 2,002 | ||
| Total Voting Capital: | 1,550,365,021 | ||
| % Total Voting Capital Represented: | 68.36% |
| Sub Total: | 62 | 0 | 1,059,812,190 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | Registered Attendees | Registered Non-Voting Attendees | Registered Votes | Accounts | |
| Shareholder (web) | 59 | 0 | 657,260,882 | 59 | |
| STYRETS LEDER WITH PROXY | 1 | 0 | 3,270,932 | 247 | |
| STYRETS LEDER WITH INSTRUCTIONS | 1 | 0 | 302,789,632 | 1561 | |
| ADVANCE VOTES | 1 | 0 | 96,490,744 | 135 |
/ed Nina Pertolaw
DNB Bank ASA Issuer Services
DNB Group Audi€
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