AGM calling&proposals
Telefonica SA
04 April 2007
Telefo, S.A., as provided in article 82 of the Spanish Stock Market Act (Ley del
Mercado de Valores), hereby reports the following
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Further to the notice sent on March 28th, 2007 and because of the official
calling of the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting of the Company to be held on
May 9th and 10th, 2007, at first and second call respectively, the full text of
the official announcement of the calling of the Annual General Shareholders'
Meeting, together with the proposals to be submitted for approval at the
Meeting, are enclosed to this report.
The aforesaid proposals and reports, and additional information on the
proposals, are available to shareholders, for examination, at the Company's
registered office. Additionally, these documents will be accessible on - line
via de Company's website: (www.telefonica.es)
Madrid, 4th April, 2007
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OFFICIAL CALLING
TELEFONICA, S.A.
Annual General Shareholders' Meeting
By decision of the Board of Directors of
TELEFONICA, S.A., the shareholders are hereby called to the Annual
General Shareholders' Meeting, to be held in Madrid, at the premises of
Casa de Campo, Pabello de Cristal, Avenida de Portugal, sin nu, at 12:00
p.m. on May 9th 2007 on first call and, if the legally required quorum
is not reached and therefore the Meeting cannot be held on first call,
at 12:00 p.m. on May 10th 2007 on second call at the same place, in
order to discuss and adopt resolutions regarding the matters included on
the following
AGENDA
I. Examination and approval, if appropriate, of the Individual Annual
Accounts, of the Consolidated Financial Statements (Consolidated Annual
Accounts) and of the Management Report of Telefo, S.A. and its
Consolidated Group of Companies, as well as of the proposed allocation
of profits/losses of Telefo, S.A. and of the management of its Board of
Directors, all with respect to the Fiscal Year 2006.
II. Re-election, ratification, and appointment, if appropriate, of
Directors:
II.1 Re-election of Mr. Ce Alierta Izuel.
II.2 Re-election of Mr. Maximino Carpio Garci.
II.3 Re-election of Mr. Gonzalo Hinojosa Ferna de Angulo.
II.4 Re-election of Mr. Pablo Isla A de Tejera.
II.5 Re-election of Mr. Enrique Used Aznar.
II.6 Re-election of Mr. Gregorio Villalabeitia Galarraga.
II.7 Ratification of the interim appointment of Mr. Jose Mari
A-Pallete Lo.
III. Authorization to acquire the Company's own shares, either directly
or through Group Companies.
IV. Delegation to the Board of Directors of the power to issue
debentures, bonds, notes and other fixed-income securities, be they
simple, exchangeable and/or convertible, with an allocation in the last
case of the power to exclude the pre-emptive rights of shareholders and
holders of convertible securities, the power to issue preferred shares,
and the power to guarantee the issuances of subsidiaries.
V. Reduction in share capital by means of the repurchase of the
Company's own shares, with the exclusion of creditors' right to
challenge the repurchase, and revising the text of the article of the
By-Laws relating to share capital.
VI. Amendment of the By-Laws.
VI.1 Amendments regarding the General Shareholders' Meeting:
amendment of Article 14 (Powers of the shareholders acting at a
General Shareholder' Meeting); Amendment of paragraphs 1 and 3
of Article 15 (Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting); amendment of paragraph 1 of and addition of paragraph
4 to Article 16 (Call to the General Shareholders' Meeting);
amendment of Article 18 (Shareholders' Right to Receive
Information); amendment of Article 19 (Chairmanship of the
Meeting and Preparation of the Attendance Roll); and amendment
of paragraph 2 of Article 20 (Deliberations and Voting).
VI.2 Amendments regarding proxy-granting and voting by means of
long-distance communication and remote attendance at the
Meeting: amendment of Article 17 (Right to attend); insertion of
a new Article 17 bis (Remote attendance by electronic or data
transmission means); and insertion of a new Article 20 bis
(Casting of votes from a distance prior to the Meeting).
VI.3 Amendments regarding the Board of Directors: elimination of
paragraph 4 of Article 24 (Composition and Appointment of the
Board of Directors); amendment of paragraph 2 of Article 25
(Requirements for appointment as Director); amendment of Article
27 (Meetings, quorum and adoption of resolutions by the Board);
amendment of Article 30 (Powers of the Board of Directors); and
amendment of Article 31 bis (Audit and Control Committee).
VII. Amendment of the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting.
VII.1 Amendment of Article 5 (Powers of the shareholders at the
General Shareholders' Meeting).
VII.2 Amendments relating to the call to and preparation of the
General Shareholders' Meeting: amendment of paragraph 2 of
Article 7 (Power and obligation to call to meeting); insertion
of a new sub-section 3 in Article 8 (Publication and notice of
the call to meeting); amendment of sub-section 2 of Article 9
(Information available to the shareholders from publication of
the notice of the call to meeting); amendment of sub-section 3
of Article 10 (Right to receive information).
VII.3 Amendments relating to proxy-granting and voting by means
of long-distance communication and remote attendance at the
Meeting: amendment of sub-section 1 and insertion of new
sub-sections 5 through 7 of Article 13 (Proxy-granting and
representation); amendment of sub-section 6 of Article 15
(Preparation of the Attendance Roll); insertion of a new Article
17 bis (Remote attendance by electronic or data transmission
means); and insertion of a new Article 20 bis (Casting of votes
from a distance prior to the Meeting).
VII.4 Other amendments: amendment of Article 21 (Voting on the
proposed resolutions) and amendment of Article 24
(Continuation).
VIII. Delegation of powers to formalize, interpret, cure and carry out
the resolutions adopted by the shareholders at the General Shareholders'
Meeting.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE CALL TO GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 97.3
of the Companies Act, shareholders representing at least five percent of
the share capital may request the publication of a supplement of this
call to the General Shareholders' Meeting, including one or more items
in the Agenda. This right must be exercised by means of verifiable
notice (which will include the corresponding documents evidencing
shareholder status) that must be received at the Company's registered
office (Gran Vi, nu 28, planta 9(a), Madrid, co postal 28013, to the
attention of the General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of
Directors) within five days of the publication of this call to Meeting.
PARTICIPATION OF A PUBLIC NOTARY IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING
The Board of Directors has resolved to
request the presence of a Public Notary to draw up the minutes of the
Meeting, pursuant to Section 114 of the Companies Act in connection with
Sections 101 and 103 of the Regulations of the Commercial Registry.
RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION
In connection with Items I, IV, V, VI and
VII on the Agenda, and pursuant to the legal terms, it is stated for the
record that shareholders have the right to examine and obtain at the
Company's registered office, or to request the Company to send them,
immediately and free of charge, a copy of the following documents:
- Individual Annual Accounts, Consolidated Financial Statements
(Consolidated Annual Accounts) and Management Report of Telefo, S.A. and
its Consolidated Group of Companies, the corresponding audit reports and
the proposed allocation of profits/ losses of Telefo, S.A.
- Proposed delegation of powers to the Board of Directors to issue
securities as set forth in Item IV on the Agenda, together with the
mandatory Directors' Report.
- Proposed reduction in share capital as set forth in Item V on the
Agenda, together with the mandatory Directors' Report.
- Proposed amendments to the By-Laws of Telefo, S.A. as set forth in
Item VI on the Agenda, together with the mandatory Directors' Report.
- Proposed amendments to the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting of Telefo, S.A. as set forth in Item VII on the Agenda, together
with the mandatory Directors' Report.
In addition, the text of the proposed
resolutions relating to all other items on the Agenda is made available
to the shareholders at the registered office, as well as a brief
description of the professional profile of each of the Directors
included in the proposed resolution under Item II on the Agenda.
All of the documents set forth above will be
available electronically on the Company's website (www.telefonica.es).
Furthermore, it is stated for the record
that, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 4 of the first provision
of Order ECO/3722/2003, the Company's Annual Corporate Governance Report
for fiscal year 2006, approved by the Company's Board of Directors at
its March 28, 2007 meeting, is available to the shareholders and may be
accessed electronically on the Company's website (www.telefonica.es).
Pursuant to Section 112.1 of the Companies
Act, the shareholders may, until the seventh day prior to the date on
which the General Shareholders' Meeting is scheduled to be held by
completing the form posted on the Company's website for such purpose, or
by postal correspondence sent to the Company's registered office (Gran
Vi, nu 28, planta 3(a), Madrid, co postal 28013, to the attention of the
Servicio de Atencio al Accionista (Shareholder Service)), request such
information or clarifications as they deem necessary, or ask such
questions as they deem appropriate, regarding the matters included on
the Agenda or about the information available to the public that has
been provided by Telefo, S.A. to the National Securities Market
Commission since June 21, 2006, i.e., the date on which the last General
Shareholders' Meeting was held.
RIGHT TO ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON OR BY PROXY
The right to attend the General
Shareholders' Meeting hereby called applies to shareholders that hold at
least 300 shares registered in their name in the corresponding
book-entry registry five days in advance of the date on which the
Meeting is to be held and who provide evidence thereof by means of the
appropriate attendance card or by producing a certificate issued by any
of the depositaries participating in the Sociedad de Gestio de los
Sistemas de Registro, Compensacio y Liquidacio de Valores (Securities
Registration, Clearing and Liquidation Systems Management Company)
(IBERCLEAR) or by any other means allowed under applicable Law.
Any shareholder having the right to attend
the General Shareholders' Meeting may be represented thereat by another
person, who need not be a shareholder. A proxy may be granted by using
the proxy-granting form printed on the attendance card or by any other
means allowed by Law. The documents containing proxies for the General
Shareholders' Meeting must set forth the instructions regarding the
manner of voting, provided that, where no express instructions are
given, the representative will vote in favor of the proposed resolutions
submitted by the Board of Directors regarding the matters on the Agenda,
and in accordance with the shareholder's own criteria in connection with
any other matter that, not being included in the Agenda and thus being
unknown at the time the proxy is granted, might be put to the vote at
the Meeting. If the proxy-granting form does not set forth a specific
person to whom the shareholder grants the proxy, such proxy will be
deemed granted in favor of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Company or of such other person as may replace him as Chairman of the
General Shareholders' Meeting. In the event that, in accordance with the
foregoing, the representative is involved in a conflict of interest upon
voting on any of the proposals, whether or not included in the Agenda,
which are put to the vote at the General Shareholders' Meeting, the
proxy will be deemed granted to the Secretary of the General
Shareholders' Meeting in his capacity as a shareholder having the right
to attend.
Shareholders who do not hold the minimum
number of shares required to attend may grant a written proxy in respect
thereof in favor of another shareholder having the right to attend, or
come together with other shareholders that are in the same situation
such that they reach the required number of shares and grant a written
proxy to one of such shareholders.
HOLDING OF THE MEETING ON SECOND CALL
Shareholders are advised that, based on experience from previous years, the General
Shareholders' Meeting is expected to be held on second call, at 12:00 p.m. on May 10th ,
2007, at the place indicated above.
ENTRANCE AT THE RECINTO FERIAL DE LA CASA DE CAMPO-PABELLON DE CRISTAL
Entrance at the Paseo de Extremadura: Puerta del A or Main Entrance
Metro stop 'Lago', lines 6 and 10
FOR ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, SHAREHOLDERS MAY CONTACT TELEFONICA'S
SHAREHOLDER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL-FREE AT 900 111 004, FROM 9:00 A.M.
TO 7:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
Madrid, 4th April 2007
General Secretary and Secretary of the Board
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FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSALS
ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING
OF 'TELEFONICA, S.A.' - YEAR 2007 -
PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR A DECISION OF THE
SHAREHOLDERS AT THE GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING
9/10 May 2007
Proposal regarding Item I on the Agenda: Examination and approval, if
appropriate, of the Individual Annual Accounts, of the Consolidated Financial
Statements (Consolidated Annual Accounts) and of the Management Report of
Telefo, S.A. and its Consolidated Group of Companies, as well as of the proposed
allocation of profits/losses of Telefo, S.A. and of the management of its Board
of Directors, all with respect to the Fiscal Year 2006.
A. To approve the Individual Annual Accounts (Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss
Statement and Notes), the Consolidated Financial Statements -Consolidated
Annual Accounts- (Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement,
Statement of Recognized Income and Expense, and Notes), and the Management
Reports of Telefo, S.A. and its Consolidated Group of Companies for the
Fiscal Year 2006 (ended December 31 of such year), as drawn up by the Board
of Directors of the Company at its meeting on February 28, 2007, as well the
management performed by the Board of Directors of Telefo, S.A. during such
Fiscal Year.
In the Individual Annual Accounts, the Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2006
reflects assets and liabilities in the amount of 82,448 million Euros each,
and the Profit and Loss Account as of the end of the fiscal year reflects
positive results of 8,284 million Euros.
In the Consolidated Financial Statements (Consolidated Annual Accounts), the
Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2006 reflect assets, and equity and
liabilities in the amount of 108,982 million Euros each, and the Income
Statement as of the close of the Fiscal Year reflects positive results of
6,233 million Euros.
B. To approve the following Distribution of Telefo, S.A's Profit from Financial
Year 2006:
To use the profit obtained by Telefo, S.A. in Financial Year 2006,
adding up to € 8,283,540,757.52, as follows:
• €1,457,913,615.30 to pay an interim dividend (fixed sum of €0.30 gross
per share for the total of 4,921,130,397 shares comprising the Company's
share capital, with the right to receive it. The said dividend was fully
paid out on November 10th ,2006.
• a maximum of €1,476,339,119.10 to pay a final dividend (maximum amount
to be distributed equal to €0.30 gross per share for the total of
4,921,130,397 shares comprising the Company's share capital).
• The remaining profit (a minimum of €5,349,288,023.12) to the Voluntary
Reserve.
C. It is stated for the record that, the approval of the aforementioned proposed
Distribution of Profit implies:
i. The ratification of the interim dividend paid on November 10th, 2006
ii. The approval of the payment of a cash dividend against the profit from
financial year 2006, for a fixed sum of €0.30 gross for each of the
Company's existing and outstanding shares, with the right to receive
such dividend.
The payment shall be made on May 17th, 2007 through the Entities
participating in Sociedad de Gestio de los Sistemas de Registro,
Compensacio y Liquidacio de Valores, S.A.' (IBERCLEAR), the Spanish
securities registrar, clearing and settlement company.
The gross amounts paid shall be subject, where appropriate, to the
withholdings required by the applicable legislation from time to time.
Telefo has submitted to the UK Listing Authority a copy of the following
documents:
• Account Auditor' Report, Annual Accounts and Management Report of
'Telefo, S.A.', all for the 2006 financial year.
• Account Auditor' Report, Annual Accounts and Management Report of
the Consolidated Group of Companies, all for the 2006 financial
year.
These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK
Listing Authority' Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5 HS
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Proposal regarding Item II on the Agenda: Re-election, ratification and
appointment, if appropiate of Directors:
II.1 To re-elect as an executive Director Mr. Ce Alierta Izuel, appointing
him for a new period of five years.
II.2 To re-elect as an independent Director Mr. Maximino Carpio Garci,
appointing him for a new period of five years.
II.3 To re-elect as an independent Director Mr. Gonzalo Hinojosa Ferna de
Angulo, appointing him for a new period of five years.
II.4 To re-elect as an independent Director Mr. Pablo Isla A de Tejera,
appointing him for a new period of five years.
II.5 To re-elect as an independent Director Mr. Enrique Used Aznar,
appointing him for a new period of five years.
II.6 To re-elect as a proprietary Director Mr. Gregorio Villalabeitia
Galarraga, appointing him for a new period of five years.
II.7. To ratify the interim appointment as a Director of the Company, as
previously approved by the Board of Directors, of Mr. Jose Mari A- Pallete Lo,
appointing him as an executive Director for a period of five years, pursuant to
the provisions of Law and the By-Laws.
Mr. Jose Mari A- Pallete Lo was appointed as a Director on an interim basis by
resolution of the Board of Directors on July 26th, 2006 to fill the vacancy
produced by the resignation of Mr. Luis Lada Di.
Furthermore, the ratification of any interim appointments of Directors that may
have been approved by the Board of Directors since the call to the General
Shareholders' Meeting and the meeting event, will be proposed, if applicable.
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Proposal regarding Item III on the Agenda: Authorization to acquire the
Company's own shares, either directly or through Group Companies.
A. To authorize, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 75 et. seq. and the
first additional provision, paragraph 2, of the current Spanish
Corporations Act (Ley de Sociedades Ano), the derivative acquisition, at
any time and as many times as deemed appropriate, of Telefo, S.A.'s own
fully paid-in shares -either directly or through any subsidiaries it
controls- by purchase or by any other legal means of consideration.
The minimum acquisition price or consideration shall be equal to the par
value of the shares acquired, and the maximum price or consideration
shall be equal to the listing price of the shares acquired on an
official secondary market at the time of acquisition.
Such authorization is granted for a period of 18 months from the date of
this Meeting and is made expressly subject to the limitation that at no
time may the nominal value of the Company's shares acquired through the
use of this authorization, added to those already possessed by Telefo,
S.A. and any of its controlled subsidiaries, exceed 5 percent of the
share capital thereof at the time of acquisition, and the limitations
established by the regulatory authorities in the markets where shares of
Telefo, S.A. are admitted for listing must also be respected.
It is expressly stated for the record that the authorization to acquire
the Company's own shares may be used in whole or in part for the
acquisition of shares of Telefo, S.A. that it must deliver or transfer
to administrators or employees of the Company or companies within its
Group, either directly or as a result of the exercise by them of
options, all within the framework of duly approved compensation systems
linked to the listing price of the Company's shares.
B. To authorize the Board of Directors, upon the broadest terms possible, to
exercise the authorization covered by this resolution and to carry out
the other provisions hereof, and such powers may be delegated by the
Board of Directors to the Executive Commission, the Executive Chairman
of the Board of Directors, or any other person that the Board of
Directors expressly authorizes for such purpose.
C. To rescind the unutilized portion of the authorization granted under item
V of the Agenda of the Company's General Shareholders' Meeting of June
21st, 2006
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Proposal Regarding Item IV on the Agenda: Delegation to the Board of Directors
of the power to issue debentures, bonds, notes and other fixed-income
securities, be they simple, exchangeable and/or convertible, with an allocation
in the last case of the power to exclude the pre-emptive rights of shareholders
and holders of convertible securities, the power to issue preferred shares, and
the power to guarantee the issuances of subsidiaries.
To delegate to the Board of Directors, under Article 319 of the Rules of the
Companies Registry (Reglamento del Registro Mercantil) and the general rules
applicable to bond issues, applying by analogy Articles 153.1 b) and 159.2 of
the Spanish Corporations Act, power to issue fixed income securities and
preferred shares in accordance with the following terms:
1. The aforementioned securities may be issued on one or more occasions
within a maximum period of five years from the date on which this
resolution is passed.
2. The securities issued may be debentures, bonds, promissory notes and
other fixed income securities, be they simple, or in the base of
debentures and bonds, convertible into shares in the Company and/or
exchangeable for shares in the Company, in any of the companies in
its Group or in any other company. They may also be preferred
shares.
3. The total maximum amount of the Securities issue(s) effected under
these delegated powers shall be 25,000,000,000 euros or the
equivalent in a different currency.
4. The delegated power shall extend to determination of the various
terms and conditions of each issue (nominal value, issue price,
redemption price, currency of the issue, interest rate, repayment,
anti-dilution protection, subordination clauses, underwriting of the
issue, place of issue, admission to listing, etc.).
5. In the case of the issue of convertible and/or exchangeable
debentures or bonds, for the purposes of setting the terms and
method of the conversion and/or exchange, it is resolved to set the
following criteria:
a. Under normal circumstances the conversion and/or exchange
ratio shall be fixed, and for that purpose fixed income
securities shall be valued at their nominal amount and
shares at such fixed price as is set in the resolution of
the Board of Directors, or at the price calculable on the
date or dates indicated in the Board resolution itself,
according to the Stock Market price of the shares in the
Company on the date(s) or over the period(s) used as a
reference in that resolution. In any event, the price of the
shares may not be less than the greater of (i) the
arithmetical average of the closing prices of shares in the
Company on the Spanish Continuous Market over the period to
be set by the Board of Directors, of no more than three
months or less than fifteen days before the date on which
the meeting is held of the Board of Directors at which, in
exercise of these delegated powers, it approves the issue of
the debentures or bonds; and (ii) the closing price of the
shares on that Continuous Market the day preceding that of
the meeting of the Board of Directors at which, in exercise
of these delegated powers, it approves the issue of the
debentures or bonds. In the event of conversion with shares
in a different company (belonging to the Group or otherwise)
the same rules shall apply, to the extent that they are
appropriate and adapted as and when necessary, although by
reference to the quoted price of the shares in that company
on the corresponding market.
b. Notwithstanding the provision of paragraph a) above, it may
be resolved to issue debentures or bonds with a variable
conversion and/or exchangeable ratio. In that case, the
share price for the purposes of the conversion and/or
exchange shall be the arithmetical average of the closing
prices of shares in the Company on the Continuous Market
over the period to be set by the Board of Directors, of no
more than three months or less than five days before the
date of the conversion and/or exchange, with a premium or,
as the case may be, a discount on that price per share. The
premium or discount may be different for each conversion and
/or exchange date (or, if applicable, each tranche of an
issue), although where a discount is set on the price per
share, it may not be more than 30%. In the event of
conversion with shares in a different company (belonging to
the Group or otherwise) the same rules shall apply, to the
extent that they are appropriate and adapted as and when
necessary, although by reference to the quoted price of the
shares in that company on the corresponding market.
c. As established in Article 292.3 of the Spanish Corporations
Act, bonds may not be converted into shares where the
nominal value of the former is less than that of the latter.
Nor may convertible bonds be issued at less than their
nominal value.
d. Where there is a conversion and/or exchange, any fractions of
a share to be transferred to the bondholder shall be rounded
down to the nearest immediately lower figure, and each
bondholder shall receive in cash any difference arising
where that occurs.
e. On approving an issue of convertible and/or exchangeable
debentures or bonds under the authorisation hereby granted,
the Board of Directors shall issue a Directors' Report
detailing and specifying, on the basis of the criteria
indicated above, the terms and method of the conversion
applicable specifically to the issue in question. This
report shall be accompanied by the corresponding report of
the Auditors referred to in Article 292 of the Spanish
Corporations Act.
6. The power to issue convertible and/or exchangeable debentures or
bonds shall in any event include:
a. Power to increase capital by the amount necessary to meet the
requirements of applications for conversion. That power may
only be exercised where the Board, adding together the
capital it increases to meet the requirements of the
convertible debenture or bond issue and any other increases
in capital it may have effected under authorisations granted
by the General Meeting, does not exceed the limit of one
half of the share capital amount referred to in Article
153.1 b) of the Spanish Corporations Act. This authorisation
to increase capital includes power to issue and place into
circulation, on one or more occasions, the shares required
to effect the conversion, and power to amend the article of
the articles of association of the Company relating to the
share capital amount.
b. Power to exclude the pre-emption right of shareholders or
holders of convertible debentures or bonds, where necessary
in order to raise financial resources on the international
markets, to use bookbuilding techniques or where otherwise
required in the interests of the Company. In any event,
should the Board resolve to remove the pre-emption right in
relation to a specific issue of convertible debentures or
bonds it might resolve to make under these delegated powers,
it would at the time of approving the issue prepare a
detailed report setting out the specific reasons in the
interests of the Company which warrant the measure, and that
report shall be the subject of the corresponding report by
an auditor other than the Company Auditor, appointed for
that purpose by the Companies Registry, as referred to in
article 159.2 of the Spanish Corporations Act. Both reports
shall be made available to shareholders and holders of
convertible bonds and shall be notified to the first General
Meeting to be held subsequently to the passing of the issue
resolution.
c. Power to specify the details of the terms and method of the
conversion and/or exchange as they are established in
subparagraph 5 above and, in particular, power to set the
time of the conversion and/or exchange, which may be limited
to a predetermined period, ownership of the right to convert
and/or exchange, which may be conferred on the Company or on
bondholders, the method of providing consideration to the
bondholder (by conversion, exchange or even a combination of
both methods, which may remain at its discretion until the
moment it takes place) and, in general, such matters and
terms as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of the
issue.
7. So long as the convertible and/or exchangeable bonds issued under
these powers can be converted and/or exchanged into shares, their
holders shall enjoy such rights as pertain to them under the rules
in force and, in particular, those relating to the pre-emption right
(in the case of convertible bonds) and the anti-dilution clause in
the cases laid down by statute, unless the General Meeting or the
Board, on the terms and subject to the requirements of Article 159
of the Spanish Corporations Act, resolves to exclude in full or in
part that pre-emption right belonging to shareholders and holders of
convertible bonds.
8. The Board of Directors shall also have power, within the total limit
established in subparagraph 3 of this resolution, to underwrite on
behalf of the Company issues of the Securities by its subsidiaries.
9. The Board of Directors shall, at subsequent General Meetings held by
the Company, report to shareholders on any exercise by it up to that
time of the delegated powers to which this resolution relates
10. The Company shall, where appropriate, apply for the Securities
issued under these delegated powers to be admitted to trading on
organised or otherwise, official or unofficial Spanish or foreign
secondary markets, and the Board shall have power to perform such
acts and take such steps in relation to the competent bodies of the
various Spanish or foreign stock markets as are necessary for
admission to listing.
For the purposes of Article 27 of the Stock Exchange Rules, (Reglamento de
Bolsas de Comercio), it is expressly stated that, where there is a subsequent
application to exclude from listing the Securities issued under these powers,
that exclusion shall be adopted with the formalities referred to in that article
and, in such a case, the interests of any shareholders or bondholders who oppose
or do not vote for the resolution shall be protected, with compliance with the
requirements of the Spanish Corporations Act and consistent provisions, the
foregoing all in conformity with the aforementioned Stock Exchange Rules,
Securities Market Act (Ley del Mercado de Valores) and their implementing
provisions.
The Board of Directors is authorised to delegate in turn to the Executive
Committee (under the second paragraph of Article 141.1 of the Spanish
Corporations Act the delegated powers referred to in this resolution.
The delegation of powers to issue fixed income securities granted by the General
Shareholders' Meeting of the Company on April 11th, 2003 is hereby revoked, to
the extent that those powers have not been exercised.
Telefo has submitted to the UK Listing Authority a copy of the Mandatory
report of the Board of Directors of Telefo, S.A. on this proposal. This
documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority' Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5 HS
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Proposal regarding Item V on the Agenda: Reduction in share capital by means of
the repurchase of the Company' own shares, with the exclusion of creditors'
right to challenge the repurchase, and revising the text of the article of the
By-Laws relating to share capital.
A. To reduce the share capital of the Company by 147,633,912 euros, by the
redemption of 147,633,912 own shares that were acquired previously as
authorized at the time by the General Meeting within the limits established
in article 75 et seq and additional provision 1.2 of the Spanish
Corporations Act (Ley de Sociedades Ano). Article 5 of the corporate By-laws
referring to the amount of share capital is therefore amended, and shall be
worded as follows:
'Article 5.- Share Capital
1. The share capital is 4,773,496,485 euros, divided into 4,773,496,485
fully paid-up ordinary shares of a single series each with a nominal
value of one euro.
2. The General Shareholders' Meeting may, in compliance with the
requirements and within the limits set by law for that purpose, delegate
power to increase the share capital to the Board of Directors.'
The reduction of capital is done with a charge to voluntary reserves,
canceling, in the appropriate amount, the restricted reserve referred to by
article 79.3 of the Spanish Corporations Act, and setting aside a reserve
for retired capital in the amount of 147,633,912 Euros (equal to the nominal
value of the retired shares). The latter reserve may only be drawn on
subject to the same requirements as apply to reductions of capital stock
under article 167.3 of the Spanish Corporations Act. Consequently, in
accordance with the terms of the said article, the Company's creditors will
not be entitled to the right to opposition referred to by article 166 of the
Spanish Corporations Act in relation to the reduction of capital resolved
herein.
The reduction shall not give rise to the repayment of contributions since
the Company itself is the owner of the shares redeemed. The purpose of the
reduction, therefore, is the redemption of treasury stock.
It is declared, for the purposes of article 289.1 of the Spanish
Corporations Act, that the consent of the Syndicates of Bondholders relating
to issues of bonds in circulation is not required, provided the reduction in
capital hereby resolved does not reduce the initial ratio between the total
capital plus reserves and unredeemed bonds.
B. Authorize the Board of Directors so that, within one year after the adoption
of this resolution, it may determine those points which have not been
expressly stipulated in this resolution or which are a consequence hereof,
and adopt the resolutions, perform the acts and grant the public or private
documents necessary or convenient for the fullest execution of this
resolution, including, by way of illustration and without limitation,
publication of the legally prescribed notices and filing of the relevant
applications and reports for having the retired shares removed from stock
market trading, with authority to have such powers delegated by the Board of
Directors to the Executive Committee, to the Executive Chairman of the Board
of Directors, or to any other person expressly empowered by the Board of
Directors for such purpose.
Telefo has submitted to the UK Listing Authority a copy of the Mandatory
report of the Board of Directors of Telefo, S.A. on this proposal. This
documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority' Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5 HS
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Proposal regarding Item VI on the Agenda: Amendment of the By-Laws
VI.1 Amendments regarding the General Shareholders' Meeting: amendment of
Article 14 (Powers of the Shareholders acting at a General Shareholder'
Meeting); Amendment of paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 15 (Ordinary and
Extraordinary General Shareholders' Meeting); amendment of paragraph 1 of and
addition of paragraph 4 to Article 16 (Call to the General Shareholders'
Meeting); amendment of Article 18 (Shareholders' Right to Receive Information);
amendment of Article 19 (Chairmanship of the Meeting and Preparation of the
Attendance Roll); and amendment of paragraph 2 of Article 20 (Deliberations and
Voting).
Article 14 of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Article 14.- Powers of the Shareholders Acting at a General
Shareholders' Meeting.
The shareholders acting at a General Shareholders' Meeting shall decide
on the matters assigned thereto by Law or these By-Laws and, in
particular, regarding the following:
1. Appointment and removal of Directors.
2. Appointment of Auditors.
3. Review of corporate management and approval, if appropriate, of the
financial statements for the prior fiscal year and decision
regarding the allocation of profits/losses.
4. Increase and reduction of share capital.
5. Issuance of Debentures.
6. Amendment of the By-Laws.
7. Dissolution, merger, split-off and transformation of the Company.
8. The transformation of the Company into a holding company, through
'subsidiarization' or by entrusting subsidiaries with the conduct of
core activities theretofore carried out by the Company itself.
9. The acquisition or disposition of essential operating assets, when
this entails an effective amendment of the corporate purpose.
10. Transactions the effect of which is tantamount to liquidating the
Company.
11. Any other matter that the Board of Directors resolves to submit to
the shareholders at a General Shareholders' Meeting.'
Paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 15 of the By-Laws are amended, leaving the
other paragraphs of Article 15 unchanged. Such paragraphs 1 and 3 shall
read as follows:
'1. The shareholders acting at an Ordinary General Shareholders'
Meeting, which shall have previously been called for such purpose,
shall meet within the first six months of each fiscal year in order
to review corporate management, approve, if appropriate, the
financial statements for the prior fiscal year and decide on the
allocation of profits/losses. Resolutions may also be adopted
regarding any other matter properly coming before the General
Shareholders' Meeting as set forth in Article 14 above, provided
that such matter appears on the Agenda and a quorum for the Meeting
has been established with the presence of such stock as is required
by Law.
The Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting shall be valid even if it
has been called or is held beyond the applicable deadline.'
'3. In addition, an extraordinary General Shareholders' Meeting
shall be held when so requested in writing by the holders of at
least five percent of the share capital, which request shall set
forth the matters to be dealt with. In this instance, the Board of
Directors shall have a maximum period of fifteen days, to be
computed from the date of the notarially-recorded request for such
call, within which to call the Meeting with such minimum advance
notice as is required by Law. The Board of Directors shall prepare
the Agenda, in which it shall include at least the matters set forth
in the request.'
Paragraph 1 of Article 16 of the By-Laws is amended and a new paragraph
4 is added at the end of the above-mentioned article; the other
paragraphs of Article 16 remain unchanged. The above-mentioned
paragraphs 1 and 4 shall read as follows:
'1. The General Shareholders' Meeting shall be called through a
notice published in the Official Bulletin of the Commercial Registry
and in one of the newspapers of wider circulation in the province
where the Company's registered office is located, as much in advance
of the date set for the Meeting as is at a minimum required by Law.'
'4. Shareholders representing at least five percent of the share
capital may request the publication of a supplement to the call to
the General Shareholders' Meeting including one or more items in the
agenda. This right must be exercised by means of duly authenticated
notice that must be received at the Company's registered office
within five days of the publication of the call to meeting.
The supplement to the call to meeting must be published in
compliance with the legal requirements and as much in advance as is
provided by Law.'
Article 18 of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Article 18.- Shareholders' Right to Receive Information
1. From the time of publication of the notice of the call to a General
Shareholders' Meeting through the seventh day prior to the date set
for the holding thereof upon first call, any shareholder may submit
a written request to the Board of Directors of the Company for such
information or clarifications as it deems are required, or ask
written questions it deems are pertinent, regarding the matters
included in the Agenda for the Meeting that has been published in
the notice of call thereto, or regarding information accessible to
the public that the Company has provided to the National Securities
Market Commission (Comisio Nacional del Mercado de Valores) since
the holding of the immediately prior General Shareholders' Meeting.
The Board of Directors shall be required to provide in writing,
until the day when the General Shareholders' Meeting is held, the
requested information or clarifications, as well as to respond in
writing to the questions asked. The answers to the questions and to
the requests for information shall be channeled through the
Secretary of the Board of Directors and provided by any member
thereof or by any person expressly authorized by the Board of
Directors to that end.
2. The notice of the call to the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting
shall state that any shareholder may obtain from the Company,
immediately and without charge at the registered office, a copy of
the documents that will be submitted to the shareholders for
approval and the Auditors' report
3. When the shareholders acting at the General Shareholders' Meeting are
to deal with an amendment to the By-Laws, the notice of the call to
meeting shall set forth, in addition to the statements required by
Law in each case, the right of all shareholders to examine at the
registered office the full text of the proposed amendment and of the
report thereon and to request that such documents be delivered or
sent to them without charge.
4. In cases of increase or reduction in share capital, issuance of
convertible debentures, merger or split-off of the Company, the
information required by Law in connection with such cases shall be
made available.
5. During the course of the General Shareholders' Meeting, the
shareholders of the Company may verbally request such information or
clarifications as they deem appropriate regarding the matters
contained in the agenda. In the event that it is not possible to
satisfy the shareholder's right at that time, the Directors shall
provide such information in writing within seven days of the close
of the Meeting.
6. The Directors shall have the duty to provide the information
requested in reliance upon the two preceding paragraphs, except in
those cases in which it is legally inadmissible and, in particular,
when, in the opinion of the Chairman, publication of the requested
information may prejudice the corporate interests. This latter
exception shall not apply when the request is supported by
shareholders representing at least one-fourth of the share capital.
Answers to shareholders who attend the General Shareholders' Meeting
from a distance by means of data transmission and simultaneously and
who exercise their right to receive information through this
procedure shall be provided, if applicable, in writing, within seven
days following the Meeting.'
Article 19 of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Article 19.- Chairmanship of the Meeting and Preparation of the
Attendance Roll.
1. The Chairman of the Board of Directors or, in the absence thereof, a
Vice Chairman of such Board, in such order as is applicable in the
event that there are several of them, shall chair the General
Shareholders' Meeting; in the event of vacancy, absence or sickness,
they shall be replaced by the longest-serving Director, and in case
of equal length of service, by the oldest. The Secretary of the
Board of Directors or, in the absence thereof, a Deputy Secretary,
in such order as is applicable in the event that there are several
of them, shall act as Secretary for the Meeting, and in the absence
of both, the position of Chairman of the Meeting shall be held by
the Director with the least amount of time as such, and in case of
equal length of service, by the youngest.
2. The Presiding Committee (Mesa) of the General Shareholders' Meeting
shall be composed of the Chairman, the Secretary for the General
Shareholders' Meeting and the members of the Board of Directors who
attend the Meeting.
3. Once the Presiding Committee has been formed, and prior to beginning
with the Agenda, an attendance roll shall be prepared by the
Secretary for the Meeting which sets forth the nature or
representation of each attendee and the number of their own or other
shareholders' shares present.
At the end of the roll, there shall be a determination of the number
of shareholders present in person -separately including those who
voted from a distance- or by proxy, as well as the amount of capital
they own, specifying the capital held by shareholders with the right
to vote.
If the attendance roll does not appear at the beginning of the
minutes of the General Shareholders' Meeting, it shall be attached
thereto as an annex signed by the Secretary with the approval of the
Chairman.
The attendance roll may also be made up of an index file or be
prepared in electronic form. In such cases, the medium used shall be
set forth in the minutes themselves, and the sealed cover of the
index file or electronic medium shall show the appropriate
identification procedure signed by the Secretary with the approval
of the Chairman.
4. Once the roll has been prepared, the Chairman shall state whether or
not the requirements for the valid constitution of the Meeting have
been met. Any questions or claims arising with respect to these
matters shall be resolved by the inspectors and the Secretary.
Immediately thereafter, if appropriate, the Chairman shall declare
the Meeting to be validly convened.'
Paragraph 2 of Article 20 of the By-Laws is amended and the other
paragraphs thereof remain unchanged. The above-mentioned paragraph 2
shall read as follows:
'2. Proposed resolutions shall be voted in accordance with the
voting calculation system established in the Regulations for the
General Shareholders' Meeting.'
VI.2 Amendments regarding proxy-granting and voting by means of long-distance
communication and remote attendance at the Meeting: amendment of Article 17
(Right to attend); insertion of a new Article 17 bis (Remote attendance by
electronic or data transmission means); and insertion of a new Article 20 bis
(Casting of votes from a distance prior to the Meeting).
Article 17 of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Article 17.- Right to Attend. Proxy-granting and Representation.
1. The right to attend General Shareholders' Meetings shall accrue to
the holders of at least that number of shares representing a nominal
value of not less than 300 euros, provided that such shares are
registered in their name in the corresponding book-entry registry
five days in advance of the date on which the General Shareholders'
Meeting is to be held, and provided also that they present evidence
thereof with the appropriate attendance card or certificate issued
by any of the entities participating in the institution that manages
such book-entry registry or in any other manner permitted under
applicable Legislation.
Without prejudice to the foregoing, holders of a lesser number of
shares may at all times grant a proxy in respect thereof to a
shareholder having the right to attend the Meeting, as well as group
together with other shareholders in the same situation until
reaching the required number of shares, following which a proxy must
be granted to one of such shareholders. The grouping must be carried
out specifically for each Meeting and be recorded on any written
medium.
2. Every shareholder having the right to attend may be represented at
the General Shareholders' Meeting by any other person, even if not a
shareholder. For such purpose, the shareholder being represented
shall comply with the requirements and formalities established under
Law.
The Chairman of and the Secretary for the General Shareholders'
Meeting shall have the widest powers allowed by Law to recognize the
validity of the document evidencing proxy representation; they shall
only deem invalid those documents that lack the minimum
indispensable requirements, and so long as the lack thereof cannot
be cured.
3. The Members of the Board of Directors must attend the General
Shareholders' Meetings, except when unable to do so upon duly
justified grounds. Senior Executive Officers, Experts and other
persons with an interest in the efficient running of corporate
affairs may be authorized to attend the General Shareholders'
Meeting by the Board of Directors.
4. Proxy representation must be granted in writing (in paper or
electronic form) and specifically for each Meeting.
A proxy is always revocable. Attendance at the Meeting by the
shareholder granting the proxy, whether in person or through
distance voting, entails the revocation of any proxy, whatever the
date thereof. A proxy shall likewise be rendered void as a result of
the disposition of shares of which the Company has notice
Without prejudice to the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies
Act, a proxy must be granted pursuant to the provisions of Section
106.2 of such Act.
5. When a proxy is granted by means of long-distance communication, it
shall only be deemed valid if it is carried out by sending to the
Company the duly signed attendance and proxy-granting card or other
written instrument that, in the opinion of the Board of Directors
expressed in a resolution adopted for such purpose, allows for due
verification of the identity of the shareholder granting the proxy
and that of the proxy-holder designated therein.
6. A proxy granted or notified by mail or electronic communication with
the Company shall only be admitted when, once such conditions of
security and unambiguousness as are appropriate have been verified,
it is so decided by the Board of Directors by means of a resolution
and subsequent communication included in the notice of the call to
the Meeting in question and further development thereof on the
Company's website. In the above-mentioned resolution, the Board of
Directors shall specify the conditions governing proxy-granting by
mail or electronic communication, which shall necessarily include
the obligation of the shareholder that exercises such right to
submit a copy of the attendance and proxy-granting card in
electronic form, describe in detail the representation granted and
the identity of the shareholder granting the proxy, and include in
the communication the recognized electronic signature or other type
of identification of the shareholder granting the proxy, under such
terms as are established by the Board of Directors by resolution
adopted for such purpose, such that this system of representation
may adequately guarantee the authenticity and identity of the
shareholder granting the proxy.
7. In order to be valid, a proxy granted by either of the aforementioned
means of long-distance communication must be received by the Company
before midnight on the third day prior to the date set for the
holding of the Meeting upon first call. In the resolution providing
for the call to the Meeting in question, the Board of Directors may
reduce such advance period and publish any such reduction in the
same manner as the notice of the call to meeting.
8. Furthermore, the Board of Directors may elaborate upon the foregoing
provisions governing proxy-granting by means of long-distance
communication, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of
Article 20 bis below.
9. A proxy may include items that, even if not contained in the agenda,
may be dealt with by the shareholders at the General Shareholders'
Meeting because it is so permitted by Law.'
A new Article 17 bis is inserted into the By-Laws following Article 17, with
the following text:
'Article 17 bis.- Remote Attendance by Electronic or Data Transmission
Means.
Remote attendance at the Meeting by means of data transmission and
simultaneously, and electronic voting from a distance during the
holding of the Meeting, may be admitted if so provided by the
Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting, subject to the
requirements set forth therein.
In this case, the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting
may grant the Board of Directors the power to determine in what
instances, taking into account current techniques, the appropriate
conditions of security and unambiguousness allow, with adequate
guarantees, for remote attendance at the Meeting by means of data
transmission and simultaneously and electronic voting from a
distance during the holding of the meeting. In addition, the
Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting may entrust the
Board of Directors with the regulation, subject to the provisions of
Law, the By-Laws and the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting, of all the required procedural aspects, including, among
other issues, how much in advance, at a minimum, the connection must
be established for the shareholder to be deemed present, the
procedure and applicable rules for the shareholders attending from a
distance to be able to exercise their rights, the identification
requirements to be satisfied by remote attendees and the impact
thereof on the system for preparing the attendance rolls.'
A new Article 20 bis of the By-Laws is inserted following Article 20, with
the following text:
'Article 20 bis.- Casting of Votes from a Distance prior to the Meeting.
1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 17 bis, and therefore,
independently of the possibility of remote attendance by electronic
means, shareholders with the right to attend may cast their vote on
the proposals relating to the items included in the Agenda for any
General Shareholders' Meeting by postal delivery or correspondence
or by electronic communication.
2. Votes by postal delivery or correspondence shall be cast by sending
or delivering to the Company a writing in which the vote is
recorded, accompanied by the duly signed attendance card issued by
the entity in charge of the book-entry registry.
3. Votes by electronic communication with the Company shall only be
admitted when, once such conditions of security and unambiguousness
as are appropriate have been verified, it is so decided by the Board
of Directors by means of a resolution and subsequent communication
included in the notice of the call to the Meeting in question and
further development thereof on the Company's website. In the
above-mentioned resolution, the Board of Directors shall specify the
conditions governing distance voting by electronic communication,
which shall necessarily include the obligation of the shareholder
that exercises such right to submit a copy of the attendance card in
electronic form and to set his recognized electronic signature in
the communication. The Board of Directors may also accept, by means
of a resolution previously adopted for such purpose, another type of
electronic signature that provides adequate guarantees of
authenticity and identification of the shareholder casting the vote.
4. In order to be deemed valid, votes cast by any of the means of
long-distance communication mentioned in the preceding paragraphs
must be received by the Company before midnight on the third day
prior to the date set for the holding of the Meeting upon first
call. In the resolution providing for the call to the Meeting in
question, the Board of Directors may reduce such advance period and
publish any such reduction in the same manner as the notice of the
call to meeting.
5. The Board of Directors may elaborate on and supplement the distance
voting and proxy-granting provisions set forth in these By-Laws and
in the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting of the
Company by establishing such instructions, means, rules and
procedures as it deems advisable in order to organize the casting of
votes and the grant of proxies by means of long-distance
communication.
In any event, the Board of Directors shall adopt the measures needed
to avoid possible deception and to ensure that the person casting a
vote or granting a proxy by postal or electronic communication has
the right to do so pursuant to the provisions of Article 17.1 of the
By-Laws. The implementing rules adopted by the Board of Directors
under the provisions of this sub-section shall be published on the
Company's website.
6. Shareholders who cast their vote from a distance pursuant to this
article and to the provisions made by the Board of Directors by way
of further development thereof shall be deemed present for purposes
of determining the establishment of a quorum for the General
Shareholders' Meeting in question. Therefore, proxies granted prior
to the casting of such vote shall be deemed revoked, and those
granted thereafter shall be deemed not to have been given.
7. The vote cast by means of long-distance communication shall be
rendered void by the attendance in person at the meeting of the
shareholder casting the vote or by the disposition of shares of
which the Company has notice.'
VI.3 Amendments regarding the Board of Directors: elimination of paragraph 4 of
Article 24 (Composition and Appointment of the Board of Directors); amendment of
paragraph 2 of Article 25 (Requirements for appointment as Director); amendment
of Article 27 (Meetings, quorum and adoption of resolutions by the Board of
Directors); amendment of Article 30 (Powers of the Board of Directors); and
amendment of Article 31 bis (Audit and Control Committee).
It is resolved to eliminate paragraph 4 of Article 24 of the By-Laws, leaving
the other paragraphs of such article unchanged. Article 24 shall therefore read
as follows:
'Article 24.- Composition and Appointment of the Board of Directors
1. The Board of Directors shall be composed of a minimum of five members and
a maximum of twenty, to be appointed at the General Shareholders'
Meeting.
2. Directors shall serve in their position for a maximum period of five
years. They may be re-elected one or more times to terms of the same
maximum duration.
3. The Board of Directors shall have the power to fill, on an interim basis,
any vacancies that may occur therein, by appointing, in such manner as
is legally allowed, the persons who are to fill such vacancies until the
holding of the next General Shareholders' Meeting.'
Paragraph 2 of Article 25 of the By-Laws is amended, leaving the other
paragraphs of the article unchanged. Such paragraph 2 of Article 25 shall read
as follows:
'2. The position of Director of the Company may only be held by persons of
legal age who are not affected by the prohibitions or circumstances of
incompatibility provided for in applicable legislation.'
Article 27 of the By-Laws is amended and shall read as follows:
'Article 27.- Meetings, Quorum and Adoption of Resolutions by the Board
of Directors
1. The Board of Directors shall regularly meet once a month, following a
call to meeting. The Board shall meet at the principal office or at
the place or places designated by the Chairman.
2. The Board shall hold extraordinary meetings when so resolved by the
Chairman or the person who serves as such. It shall also meet at the
request of at least three Directors.
3. All Directors who are absent may grant a proxy by letter to another
Director who is in attendance, with the right to speak and to vote,
at the meeting or session to which the proxy refers. The Director
granting the proxy shall endeavor, to the extent possible, to
include voting instructions in the letter of proxy.
4. A meeting of the Board may be held in several rooms simultaneously so
long as real-time interactivity or intercommunication among them is
ensured by audiovisual means or by telephone, such that the unity of
the act is also ensured.
5. The Board of Directors shall endeavor, to the extent possible, that
absences from Board meetings are kept to an absolute minimum. In the
event that any of the Directors whose usual place of residence is in
Madrid fails to attend four consecutive meetings without providing
sufficient reasons for his absence, the Board of Directors shall
have the power to declare his removal from office and to appoint the
person that will replace him on an interim basis until such
appointment is submitted for ratification by the shareholders at the
next General Shareholders' Meeting.
6. In order for resolutions of the Board to be valid, one-half plus one
of all the Directors in office must be in attendance, in person or
by proxy; if there is an odd number of Directors in office, the
number of Directors present in person or by proxy must be greater
than the number of Directors who are absent.
7. Resolutions shall in all cases be adopted by a majority of votes cast
by the Directors present at the meeting in person or by proxy,
except in those instances in which the Law requires the favorable
vote of a greater number of Directors for the validity of specific
resolutions.
8. Voting in writing and without a meeting shall be admitted when no
Director opposes the use of this procedure.
9. The deliberations and resolutions of the Board shall be recorded in
Minutes signed by the Secretary and approved by the Chairman or by
the persons who have acted as such at the meeting in question. The
Minutes shall be written down or transcribed in a Minute Book, which
may be kept separately from the Minute Book used for the General
Shareholders' Meeting. In the event of voting in writing and without
a meeting, the resolutions adopted and the votes cast in writing
shall also be recorded in the Minute Book.'
Article 30 of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Article 30.- Powers of the Board of Directors
1. Pursuant to the provisions of Law and these By-Laws, the Board of
Directors is the highest Body entrusted with the administration and
representation of the Company, and therefore has the power to carry
out, within the scope of the corporate purpose defined in the
By-Laws, any acts or legal transactions by way of administration or
disposition, upon any legal title, except for those which fall
within the scope of the powers exclusively granted by Law or the
By-Laws to the shareholders acting at the General Shareholders'
Meeting.
2. The Board of Directors sitting as a full body shall approve the
general policies and strategies of the Company, under such terms as
are set forth in the Regulations of the Board of Directors.
Article 31 bis of the By-Laws is amended to read as follows:
'Arti 31 bis.- Audit and Control Committee.
1. An Audit and Control Committee shall be created within the Board of
Directors, which shall be composed of a minimum of three Directors
and a maximum of five, to be appointed by the Board of Directors.
All of the members of such Committee shall be external Directors.
2. The Chairman of the Audit and Control Committee, which position shall
be held by an independent Director in all cases, shall be appointed
by the Committee itself from among its members and shall hold office
for four years, and may be re-elected after the passage of one year
from ceasing to act as such.
3. The Audit and Control Committee shall have the following powers, at a
minimum:
i. to report, through its Chairman, to the shareholders at the
General Shareholders' Meeting regarding matters raised therein
by the shareholders in connection with the matters for which the
Committee is responsible;
ii. to propose to the Board of Directors, for subsequent submission
to the shareholders at the General Shareholders' Meeting, the
appointment of the Auditor referred to in Section 204 of the
Companies Act, as well as, if appropriate, the terms and
conditions for hiring such Auditor, the scope of its
professional duties and the revocation of its appointment or its
re-appointment;
iii. to monitor the internal audit services;
iv. to know the process for gathering financial information and the
internal control systems;
v. to interact with the Auditor in order to receive information
regarding matters that may jeopardize the Auditor's independence
and any other matters relating to the conduct of audits of the
financial statements, as well as to receive information and
maintain with the Auditor such communication as is provided for
in legislation governing audits of financial statements and in
technical auditing regulations; and
vi. any other powers granted under the Regulations of the Board of
Directors.
4. The Committee shall meet at least once every quarter and as many
times as is appropriate, following a call to meeting by the
Chairman.
5. A quorum shall validly exist at meetings of the Audit and Control
Committee with the presence, in person or by proxy, of at least
one-half of its members, and resolutions shall be adopted by
majority of votes present. In the event of a tie, the Chairman shall
have the tie-breaking vote.
6. The Board of Directors may further elaborate upon and supplement the
foregoing rules in its own Regulations, pursuant to the provisions
of these By-Laws and the Law.'
Telefo has submitted to the UK Listing Authority a copy of the Mandatory
report of the Board of Directors of Telefo, S.A. on this proposal. This
documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority' Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5 HS
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Proposal regarding Item VII on the Agenda: Amendment of the Regulations for the
General Shareholders' Meeting
VII.1 Amendment of Article 5 (Powers of the shareholders at the General
Shareholders' Meeting).
Article 5 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting is
amended to read as follows:
'Article 5. Powers of the shareholders at the General Shareholders'
Meeting.
The shareholders acting at the General Shareholders' Meeting shall have
the power to deliberate upon and adopt resolutions on all such matters
as legal provisions and the By-Laws reserve for decision thereat and, in
general, on all matters which fall within the scope of powers assigned
by Law to the shareholders and are submitted at the General
Shareholders' Meeting at the behest of the Board of Directors and of the
shareholders themselves, in such instances and in such manner as are
provided in the Law and the By-Laws. In particular, the shareholders
shall decide the following matters:
a. Appointment and removal of Directors.
b. Appointment of Auditors.
c. Review of corporate management and approval, if appropriate, of the
financial statements for the prior fiscal year and decision
regarding the allocation of profits/losses.
d. Increase or reduction of share capital.
e. Issuance of Debentures.
f. Amendment of the By-Laws.
g. Dissolution, merger, split-off and transformation of the Company.
h. The transformation of the Company into a holding company, through
'subsidiarization' or by entrusting subsidiaries with the conduct of
core activities theretofore carried out by the Company itself.
i. The acquisition or disposition of essential operating assets, when
this entails an effective amendment of the corporate purpose.
j. Transactions the effect of which is tantamount to liquidating the
Company.
k. Any other matter that the Board of Directors resolves to submit to
the shareholders at a General Shareholders' Meeting.'
VII.2 Amendments relating to the call to and preparation of the General
Shareholders' Meeting: amendment of paragraph 2 of Article 7 (Power and
obligation to call to meeting); insertion of a new sub-section 3 in Article 8
(Publication and notice of the call to meeting); amendment of sub-section 2 of
Article 9 (Information available to the shareholders from publication of the
notice of the call to meeting); amendment of sub-section 3 of Article 10 (Right
to receive information).
Paragraph 2 of Article 7 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting is amended and the other paragraphs thereof remain unchanged. Such
paragraph 2 shall read as follows:
'2. The Board of Directors, or the Executive Commission, may call the
General Shareholders' Meeting whenever it deems it advisable or
appropriate to further the corporate interests and shall be required, in
all cases, to call the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting within the
first six months of each Fiscal Year and to call an Extraordinary
General Shareholders' Meeting whenever it is so requested in writing by
the holders of at least five per cent of the share capital, which
request shall set forth the matters to be dealt with. In this instance,
the Board of Directors shall have a maximum period of fifteen days, to
be computed from the date of the notarially-recorded request for such
call, within which to call the Meeting with such minimum advance notice
as is required by Law, and the agenda shall include at least the matters
set forth in the request.'
A new sub-section 3 is added to Article 8 of the Regulations for the General
Shareholders' Meeting, with sub-section 1 and paragraph 2 thereof remaining
unchanged. Such sub-section 3 shall read as follows:
'3. Shareholders representing at least five percent of the share capital
may request the publication of a supplement to the call to the General
Shareholders' Meeting including one or more items in the agenda. This
right must be exercised by means of duly authenticated notice that must
be received at the Company's registered office within five days of the
publication of the call to meeting.
The supplement to the call to meeting must be published in compliance
with the legal requirements and as much in advance as is provided by the
Law.'
Sub-section 2 of Article 9 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting is amended, and the other sub-sections thereof remain unchanged. The
aforementioned sub-section 2 shall read as follows:
'2. Furthermore, from the date of publication of the notice of the call
to the General Shareholders' Meeting, and in order to facilitate
shareholders' attendance and participation therein, the Company shall
include in its website, to the extent available and in addition to the
documents and information required by the Law, all materials that the
Company deems advisable for such purposes and in particular, but merely
for illustrative purposes, the following:
a. The text of all the proposed resolutions that are to be submitted to
the shareholders at the General Shareholders' Meeting and that have
by then been approved by the Board of Directors, provided, however,
that the Board of Directors may amend such proposals up to the date
of the Meeting when so permitted by the Law.
b. Information regarding the place where the General Shareholders'
Meeting is to be held, describing, when appropriate, the means of
access to the meeting room.
c. The procedure to obtain attendance cards or certificates issued by
the entities legally authorized to do so.
d. The means and procedures to grant a proxy for the General
Shareholders' Meeting.
e. If established, the means and procedures to cast votes from a
distance.
f. Any other matters of interest for purposes of following the
proceedings at the Meeting, such as whether or not simultaneous
interpretation services will be provided, the possibility that the
General Shareholders' Meeting be followed by audio-visual means, or
information in other languages.
In addition, when there is a supplement to the call to meeting, the
Company shall, from the date of publication thereof, also publish, in
the same manner and on its website, the text of the proposals to which
such supplement refers and which has been provided to the Company.
This information may be subject to changes at any time, in which case
any appropriate amendments or clarifications shall be published on the
Company's website.'
Sub-section 3 of Article 10 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting is amended, and the other sub-sections thereof remain unchanged.
Such sub-section 3 shall read as follows:
'3. The Directors shall have the duty to provide the information
requested in reliance upon the two preceding paragraphs, except in those
cases in which (i) it has been requested by holders of less than
one-fourth of the share capital and the dissemination thereof may, in
the opinion of the Chairman, prejudice the corporate interests; (ii) the
request for information or clarifications does not refer to matters
included in the agenda or, in the case of sub-section 1 above, to
information accessible to the public that has been provided by the
Company to the National Securities Market Commission since the holding
of the immediately prior General Shareholders' Meeting; (iii) the
request for information is deemed abusive for any other reason; or (iv)
it is so established in legal or regulatory provisions.
Answers to shareholders who attend the General Shareholders' Meeting
from a distance by means of data transmission and simultaneously and who
exercise their right to receive information through this procedure shall
be provided, if applicable, in writing, within seven days following the
Meeting.'
VII.3 Amendments relating to proxy-granting and voting by means of long-distance
communication and remote attendance at the Meeting: amendment of sub-section 1
and insertion of new sub-sections 5 through 7 of Article 13 (Proxy-granting and
representation); amendment of sub-section 6 of Article 15 (Preparation of the
Attendance Roll); insertion of a new Article 17 bis (Remote attendance by
electronic or data transmission means); and insertion of a new Article 20 bis
(Casting of votes from a distance prior to the Meeting).
Sub-section 1 of Article 13 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting is amended, and new sub-sections 5 through 7 are inserted in this
article; the other sub-sections of this Article 13 remain unchanged.
Sub-section 1 and the new sub-sections 5 through 7 shall read as follows:
'1. Every shareholder having the right to attend the General
Shareholders' Meeting may be represented thereat by another person, even
if not a shareholder. The proxy must be granted specifically for each
Meeting, either by using the proxy-granting form printed on the
attendance card or in any other manner permitted by the Law, without
prejudice to the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act (Ley de
Sociedades Ano) regarding cases of proxies granted to family relatives
and general proxies.
The documents setting forth the proxies or powers of attorney for the
General Shareholders' Meeting shall contain instructions regarding the
direction of the vote. If no express instructions are given, it shall be
understood that the proxy-holder must vote in favor of the proposed
resolutions put forward by the Board of Directors regarding the matters
on the agenda.
If there are no voting instructions because the shareholders acting at
the General Shareholders' Meeting are to decide matters that are not
included in the agenda and are thus unknown on the date that the proxy
is granted but which may be submitted to a vote at the Meeting, the
proxy-holder shall vote in such direction as he deems most appropriate,
taking into account the interest of the Company and that of the
shareholder granting the proxy. The same rule shall apply when the
relevant proposal or proposals submitted to the shareholders at the
Meeting have not been made by the Board of Directors.
If the document setting forth the proxy or power of attorney does not
state the specific person or persons to whom the shareholder grants the
proxy, such proxy shall be deemed granted in favor of any of the
following: the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, or the
person that stands in for him as Chairman of the General Shareholders'
Meeting, or such person as is appointed by the Board of Directors, with
notice of such appointment being given in advance in the official notice
of the call to meeting.
In cases in which a public proxy solicitation has been carried out, the
Director who obtains such proxy shall be subject to the voting
restriction established in Section 114 of the Securities Market Act (Ley
del Mercado de Valores) in connection with conflict of interest
situations.
A proxy is always revocable. Attendance at the Meeting by the
shareholder granting the proxy, whether in person or through distance
voting, entails the revocation of any proxy, whatever the date thereof.
A proxy shall likewise be rendered void as a result of the disposition
of shares of which the Company has notice.'
'5. When a proxy is granted by means of long-distance communication, it
shall only be deemed valid if it is carried out by sending to the
Company the duly signed attendance and proxy-granting card or other
written instrument that, in the opinion of the Board of Directors
expressed in a resolution adopted for such purpose, allows for due
verification of the identity of the shareholder granting the proxy and
that of the proxy-holder designated therein.
A proxy granted or notified by electronic mail or communication with the
Company shall only be admitted when, once such conditions of security
and unambiguousness as are appropriate have been verified, it is so
decided by the Board of Directors by means of a resolution and
subsequent communication included in the notice of the call to the
Meeting in question and further development thereof on the Company's
website. In the above-mentioned resolution, the Board of Directors shall
specify the conditions governing proxy-granting by electronic mail or
communication, which shall necessarily include the obligation of the
shareholder that exercises such right to submit a copy of the attendance
and proxy-granting card in electronic form, describe in detail the
representation granted and the identity of the shareholder granting the
proxy, and include in the communication the recognized electronic
signature or other type of identification of the shareholder granting
the proxy, under such terms as are established by the Board of Directors
by resolution adopted for such purpose, such that this system of
representation may adequately guarantee the authenticity and identity of
the shareholder granting the proxy.
Once that the Board of Directors resolves, if it deems it appropriate,
to admit the proxy-granting system by electronic mail or communication
as provided herein, it shall also endeavor to adopt the measures
required for such admission of the aforementioned proxy-granting system
to be included and set forth in these Regulations.
In order to be valid, a proxy granted by either of the aforementioned
means of long-distance communication must be received by the Company
before midnight on the third day prior to the date set for the holding
of the Meeting upon first call. In the resolution providing for the call
to the Meeting in question, the Board of Directors may reduce such
advance period and publish any such reduction in the same manner as the
notice of the call to meeting. Furthermore, the Board of Directors may
elaborate upon the foregoing provisions governing proxy-granting by
means of long-distance communication, in accordance with the provisions
of sub-section 5 of Article 20 bis of the By-Laws and sub-section 7 of
Article 20 bis of these Regulations.
6. A proxy may include items that, even if not contained in the agenda,
may be dealt with by the shareholders at the General Shareholders'
Meeting because it is so permitted by Law.
7. The Board may elaborate upon the foregoing provisions governing
proxy-granting by means of long-distance communication, pursuant to the
provisions of paragraph 7 of Article 20 bis below.'
Sub-section 6 of Article 15 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders'
Meeting is amended, and the other sub-sections thereof remain unchanged. The
aforementioned sub-section 6 shall read as follows:
'6. The preparation of the Attendance Roll and the resolution of issues
arising in connection therewith shall be the purview of the Secretary
for the Meeting.
At the end of the Attendance Roll, there shall be a determination of the
number of shareholders present in person -separately including those who
voted from a distance- or by proxy, as well as of the amount of capital
they own, specifying the capital held by shareholders with the right to
vote.'
A new Article 17 bis is inserted below Article 17 of the Regulations for the
General Shareholders' Meeting, which shall read as follows:
'Article 17 bis. Remote attendance by electronic or data transmission
means.
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 bis of the By-Laws, and
independently of the right of the shareholders to vote from a distance
as provided in Article 20 bis of these Regulations, shareholders with
the right to attend the General Shareholders' Meeting held at the place
indicated in the notice of the call to meeting may exercise such right
by electronic or data transmission means of long-distance communication
when it has so been resolved by the Board of Directors after taking into
account the current techniques and verifying the appropriate conditions
for security and unambiguousness. In the notice of the call to meeting,
the Board of Directors shall set forth the means that may be used for
the aforementioned purposes in view of the fact that they meet the
conditions for security required to guarantee the identity of the
shareholders, the proper exercise of their rights and the appropriate
progress of the Meeting.
In the event that the Board of Directors resolves to permit remote
attendance at the General Shareholders' Meeting, the notice of the call
to meeting shall set forth such periods, form and manner for the
exercise of shareholders' rights as shall have been established by the
Directors in furtherance of the proper conduct of the Meeting.
Remote attendance of the shareholders at the General Shareholders''
Meeting by electronic or data transmission means shall be subject to the
following provisions, which may be supplemented by the Board of
Directors:
a. The connection to the system in order to follow the Meeting shall be
established as much in advance of the time set for the commencement
of the Meeting as is indicated in the notice of call. Shareholders
who start the connection after the time established as a deadline
for such purpose shall not be deemed present.
b. Shareholders who wish to attend the Meeting and exercise their rights
shall identify themselves by means of a recognized electronic
signature or other type of identification, subject to the
requirements that the Board establishes in the resolution adopted
for such purpose, providing for adequate guarantees of authenticity
and identification of the shareholder in question. The right to vote
and to receive information shall be exercised by electronic means of
long-distance communication that are deemed suitable pursuant to the
provisions of Article 20 bis of the By-Laws and Article 20 bis of
these Regulations.
c. Proposals regarding matters included in the agenda may be voted from
the moment that the Chairman of the Meeting declares that a valid
quorum has been established and makes a statement to that end, and
through the time indicated by the Chairman for such purpose. On the
other hand, proposals regarding matters not included in the agenda
shall be voted during such time period as is indicated by the
Chairman, once the proposal has been formulated and it is considered
that it must be submitted to a vote.
d. Shareholders attending from a distance pursuant to this article may
exercise their right to receive information by asking such questions
or requesting such clarifications as they deem fit, so long as they
refer to matters included in the agenda. The Board of Directors may
establish in the notice of the call to meeting that any
presentations and proposed resolutions that those attending by means
of data transmission may wish to make pursuant to the Law must be
sent to the Company prior to the establishment of a quorum at the
Meeting. Answers to shareholders attending the Meeting in this
manner and who exercise their right to receive information during
the course of the Meeting shall be provided in writing, if
applicable, within seven days following the holding of the Meeting.
e. The inclusion in the attendance roll of shareholders attending from a
distance shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in
these Regulations.
f. The Presiding Committee, and the Notary, if applicable, shall have
direct access to the connection systems by means of which the
Meeting may be attended, such that they have personal and immediate
knowledge of the communications and statements made by the
shareholders attending from a distance.
g. In the event that, due to technical circumstances or security reasons
deriving from supervening events, the communication is interrupted
or ended, such circumstance may not be invoked as an unlawful
deprivation of a shareholder's rights or as grounds for challenging
the resolutions adopted at the Meeting in question.
The Board of Directors may establish and update the means and
procedures in accordance with the state of the art in technical
matters in order to organize the remote attendance at the Meeting
and electronic voting from a distance during the course thereof, for
which purpose it shall comply with the legal provisions governing
such system and the provisions set forth in the By-Laws and in these
Regulations. Such means and procedures shall be published on the
Company's website.'
A new Article 20 bis is inserted below Article 20 of the Regulations for the
General Shareholders' Meeting, which shall read as follows:
'Article 20 bis. Casting of votes from a distance prior to the Meeting.
1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 17 bis of these
Regulations, and therefore, independently of the right to attend by
electronic means, shareholders with the right to attend may cast their
vote on the proposals relating to the items included in the Agenda for
any General Shareholders' Meeting by postal delivery or correspondence
or by electronic communication.
2. Votes by postal delivery or correspondence shall be cast by sending
or delivering to the Company a writing in which the vote is recorded,
accompanied by the duly signed attendance card issued by the entity in
charge of the book-entry registry.
3. Votes by electronic communication with the Company shall only be
admitted when, once such conditions of security and unambiguousness as
are appropriate have been verified, it is so decided by the Board of
Directors by means of a resolution and subsequent communication included
in the notice of the call to the Meeting in question and further
development thereof on the Company's website. In the above-mentioned
resolution, the Board of Directors shall specify the conditions
governing distance voting by electronic communication, which shall
necessarily include the obligation of the shareholder that exercises
such right to submit a copy of the attendance card in electronic form
and to set his recognized electronic signature in the communication. The
Board of Directors may also accept, by means of a resolution previously
adopted for such purpose, another type of electronic signature that
provides adequate guarantees of authenticity and identification of the
shareholder casting the vote.
Once that the Board of Directors resolves, if it deems it appropriate,
to admit the system for prior voting from a distance by electronic
communication as provided herein, it shall also endeavor to adopt the
measures required for such admission of the aforementioned voting system
to be included and set forth in these Regulations.
4. In order to be valid, votes cast by any of the means of long-distance
communication mentioned in the preceding paragraphs must be received by
the Company before midnight on the third day prior to the date set for
the holding of the Meeting upon first call. In the resolution providing
for the call to the Meeting in question, the Board of Directors may
reduce such advance period and publish any such reduction in the same
manner as the notice of the call to meeting.
5. Shareholders who cast their vote from a distance pursuant to this
article and to the provisions made by the Board of Directors by way of
further development thereof shall be deemed present for purposes of
determining the establishment of a quorum for the General Shareholders'
Meeting in question. Therefore, proxies granted prior to the casting of
such vote shall be deemed revoked, and those granted thereafter shall be
deemed not to have been given.
6. The vote cast by means of long-distance communication shall be
rendered void by the attendance in person at the meeting of the
shareholder casting the vote or by the disposition of shares of which
the Company has notice.
7. The Board of Directors is hereby empowered to elaborate on and
supplement the distance voting and proxy-granting provisions set forth
in these Regulations, by establishing such instructions, means, rules
and procedures as it deems advisable in order to organize the casting of
votes and the grant of proxies by means of long-distance communication.
In any event, the Board of Directors shall adopt the measures needed to
avoid possible deception and to ensure that the person casting a vote or
granting a proxy by postal or electronic communication has the right to
do so pursuant to the provisions of Article 17.1 of the By-Laws. The
implementing rules adopted by the Board of Directors under the
provisions of this sub-section shall be published on the Company's
website.'
VII.4 Other amendments: amendment of Article 21 (Voting on the proposed
resolutions) and amendment of Article 24 (Continuation).
Article 21 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting is
amended to read as follows:
'Article 21. Voting on the proposed resolutions.
1. Once shareholders' presentations, if any, have concluded and answers
have been provided as set forth in these Regulations, the corresponding
proposed resolutions shall be put to the vote.
Each of the proposed resolutions shall be voted by following the agenda
included in the notice of the call to meeting, and if proposals have
been made regarding matters which the shareholders may decide without
such matters being included in the agenda, they shall be submitted to a
vote after a vote is taken on the proposals included in the agenda,
unless the Chairman decides otherwise.
2. After the Secretary has read the full text or a summary of the
proposed resolution corresponding to an item on the agenda, which
reading may be dispensed with when the text of such proposal has been
distributed to the shareholders at the beginning of the General
Shareholders' Meeting, a vote shall first be taken on the resolutions
proposed in each case by the Board of Directors, and then, if
appropriate, the proposals made by other parties shall be submitted to a
vote, following the order established by the Chairman for that purpose.
When a single item on the agenda includes different matters, such
matters shall be separately submitted to a vote. In particular, a
separate vote shall be taken on the appointment of each Director and, in
the event of amendments to the By-Laws or these Regulations, on each
article or group of articles having independent contents. In exceptional
cases, related proposals, which are formulated as an indivisible unit,
shall be voted as a whole, such as those relating to the approval of the
entire text of the By-Laws or of the Regulations for the General
Shareholders' Meeting.
In all cases, when a proposed resolution is approved, all other
proposals on the same matter that are incompatible therewith shall
automatically be deemed withdrawn and shall therefore not be submitted
to a vote, which shall be stated by the Chairman of the Meeting, or by
the Secretary, acting by delegation of powers.
3. The following voting calculation system shall be used for purposes of
voting on the proposed resolutions:
a. In the case of voting on proposed resolutions relating to matters on
the agenda, votes in favor of the proposal submitted to a vote shall
be deemed to be those corresponding to all shares present or
represented at the Meeting, according to the Attendance Roll, less
the votes corresponding to shares whose holders or representatives
inform the Presiding Committee, or to the Notary, if appropriate, by
written communication or personal statement, that they vote against,
in blank or abstain.
b. In the case of voting on proposed resolutions relating to matters
that are not included in the agenda, votes against the proposal
submitted to a vote shall be deemed to be those corresponding to all
shares present or represented at the Meeting, according to the
Attendance Roll, less the votes corresponding to shares whose
holders or representatives inform the Presiding Committee, or to the
Notary, if appropriate, by written communication or personal
statement, that they vote in favor, in blank or abstain.
c. For purposes of the provisions of paragraphs a) and b) above, for
each of the proposed resolutions submitted to a vote, it shall be
deemed that shares present and represented at the meeting are all
those recorded on the Attendance Roll, less the shares whose holders
may not, pursuant to applicable legislation and depending upon the
proposed resolution that is put to the vote, exercise the voting
rights attaching to their shares.
Regardless of the system used to calculate the votes, verification by
the Presiding Committee of the Meeting -or, exceptionally, in the event
that such Presiding Committee has not been formed, by the Secretary for
the Meeting- of the existence of a number of favorable votes sufficient
to attain the majority required in each case, will allow the Chairman to
declare the relevant proposed resolution to have been approved.'
Article 24 of the Regulations for the General Shareholders' Meeting is
amended to read as follows:
'Article 24. Continuation.
At the proposal of the Chairman of the General Shareholders' Meeting, or
at the request of shareholders representing at least one-fourth of the
share capital present or represented at the meeting, the shareholders
may resolve upon a continuation of the sessions over one or more
consecutive days. In the event that, due to organizational reasons, the
venue for the subsequent sessions must be other than that where the
first session was held, such venue shall be designated, if possible,
when the continuation is decided; otherwise, it shall be notified as
soon as it is designated, by an appropriate means of information that
shall be established in the resolution providing for the continuation.
Regardless of the number of sessions, the Meeting shall be deemed to be
a single meeting, and a single set of Minutes shall be taken for all of
the sessions. Accordingly, there shall be no need to repeat compliance
with the provisions of the Law, the By-Laws or these Regulations in
subsequent sessions for them to be validly held.
Only shareholders included in the Attendance Roll shall be entitled to
attend and vote at the successive sessions held due to the continuation
of the General Shareholders' Meeting. The shares held by shareholders
included in such Attendance Roll who leave during the course of the
subsequent sessions shall not be deducted and shall continue to be
computed for the purpose of calculating the majority required to adopt
resolutions. However, any shareholder who intends to be absent from the
subsequent sessions may, if he deems it appropriate, inform the
Presiding Committee, or the Notary Public, if applicable, of his
intention so to act and of the direction of his vote on the proposals
included in the agenda.'
Telefo has submitted to the UK Listing Authority a copy of the Mandatory
report of the Board of Directors of Telefo, S.A. on this proposal. This
documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority' Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5 HS
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Proposal regarding Item VIII on the Agenda: Delegation of powers to formalize,
interpret, cure and carry out the resolutions adopted by the shareholders at the
General Shareholders' Meeting.
To jointly and severally authorize the Executive Chairman, the Secretary and the
Deputy Secretary of the Board of Directors, such that, without prejudice to any
other delegations included in this foregoing resolutions and any
powers-of-attorney to convert existing resolutions into public instruments, any
of them may formalize and execute the foregoing resolutions, with the power for
such purpose to execute the public or private documents that are necessary or
appropriate (including those of interpretation, clarification, correction of
errors and the curing of defects) for the most correct performance thereof and
for the registration thereof, to the extent required, with the Commercial
Registry (Registro Mercantil) or any other Public Registry.
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