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The regulations of PGM
THE REGULATIONS OF PROCEEDINGS OF GENERAL MEETINGS OPTOPOL Technology SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA (JOINT STOCK COMPANY) IN ZAWIERCIE
§1 General provisions
- These
Regulations shall determine the organisation and course of Ordinary and
Extraordinary General Meetings ("General Meeting") of OPTOPOL
Technology Spółka Akcyjna (Joint-stock Company) in Zawiercie
(“Company”).
- The General Meetings shall take place pursuant to
the provisions stipulated in the Code of Commercial Companies, the
Articles of Association and these Regulations.
§2 The mode of convening of General Meetings
- Ordinary
General Meeting shall be convened by the Management Board within the
term ensuring its holding within the period of 6 months from the end of
the financial year.
- Extraordinary General Meeting shall be
convened by the Management Board upon its own initiative or at the
written request of the Supervisory Board or at the written request of
Shareholder(s) representing at least one tenth of the Company's share
capital - within two weeks from the request filing. The request to
convene General Meeting should state the matters put on its agenda.
- The
Supervisory Board shall have the right to convene the Ordinary General
Meeting if the Management Board does not convene it in the prescribed
term and the Extraordinary General Meeting, if it should deem its
convening reasonable, and the Management Board does not convene the
General Meeting within the period of two weeks from filing of relevant
request by the Supervisory Board.
- The request to convene the
General Meeting and to put certain matters on the agenda, submitted by
authorised entities, should be reasonable. The Supervisory Board or
Shareholder(s) requesting to convene the Extraordinary General Meeting
and to put certain matters on the agenda shall be obliged at the same
time to hand over to the Management Board the resolution drafts
proposed to be passed, together with written justification of the filed
request within the term enabling their putting on the agenda, pursuant
to the provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies.
- Convening
of the General Meeting at the request of authorised entities should
take place within two weeks from the date of request filing, at the
date stated at the request, pursuant to the provisions of art. 402 §1
Code of Commercial Companies and if meeting this deadline is obstructed
due to important reasons, in the earliest possible term, enabling to
settle, by the General Meeting, the matters put on the agenda.
- In
the matters not covered by the agenda the resolution cannot be passed,
unless the whole share capital is represented at the General Meeting
and no one from those present filed objection to the passing of the
resolution.
- The General Meeting shall be convened by the
announcement in Court and Business Monitor, which should be published
at least three weeks prior to the date of the General Meeting.
- The
announcement should include the date, time and place of the General
Meeting holding as well as a detailed meeting agenda. In the event of
intended amendment to the Company's Articles of Association, the
existing provisions as well as proposed amendments should be presented.
If it is justified by significant scope of proposed amendments, the
announcement can include the draft of new unified text of the Company's
Articles of Association with the indication of new or amended
provisions of the Company's Articles of Association.
- General
Meetings shall be held at the Company’s registered office. The body
authorised to convene the General Meeting shall determine the place and
time of the General Meeting in such a way as to facilitate the
participation in the Meeting of the widest scope of the Shareholders.
- The
cancellation of the General Meeting, on the agenda of which, at the
request of authorized entities, certain matters were put or which was
convened at such request, can take place only with the consent of the
requestors. In other cases the General Meeting can be cancelled if its
taking place meets extraordinary obstacles resulting from force majeure
or is clearly unreasonable. The cancellation of the General Meeting
should take place in the same mode as its convening, with preservation
of the least adverse consequences for the Company and the Shareholders,
within the period not longer than three weeks prior to the primarily
determined date. The change of the date of the General Meeting should
take place in the same mode as its convening, even if the proposed
agenda did not change.
§3 The participants of General Meetings
- All
shares of the Company are bearer shares. The holders of the shares
shall be entitled to participate in the General Meeting if the share
documents are deposited in the Company at least one week prior to the
date of the General Meeting and are not returned prior to its
completion. The owners of dematerialised shares within the meeting of
the act of 29 July 2005 on the trade with financial instruments
(Journal of Laws, No. 183, item 1538, as amended) should in the above
referred period deposit in the Company the registered depository
receipts issued by the entities keeping securities accounts pursuant to
the provisions of that act.
- The Management Board shall prepare
and sign the list of Shareholders entitled to participate in the
General Meeting. The list shall contain names and surname or companies'
business names (names) of those entitled, their places of residence
(registered office), number, type and number of shares and the number
of eligible votes and should be presented in the Management Board
office for the period of three business days prior to the General
Meeting. Natural person can provide correspondence address instead of
place of residence.
- Shareholder can review the list of
Shareholders in the Management Board office and request a copy of the
list against the return of costs for its preparation.
- Shareholder
shall have the right to request to issue copy of requests of matters
put on the agenda within one week prior to the General Meeting.
- In the General Meeting the members of the Management Board and Supervisory Board should participate.
- The
Company's Management Board shall be obliged to ensure the presence of
certified auditor during these General Meetings, the agenda of which
indicates the discussion on the annual financial reports of the
Company. The Management Board can invite other people, the presence of
whom is reasonable.
- The General Meeting shall decide in the
resolution about the possible participation of people other than those
entitled to participate in the General Meeting, referred to in para.
1-5 above, in particular representatives of media as well as the
possibility to record the course of the proceedings on the carriers of
picture and sound.
§4 Form of participation
- Shareholder being natural person may participate in the General Meeting and exercise the right of vote personally or by proxy.
- Shareholder
not being natural person may participate in the General Meeting and
exercise the right of vote by person authorised to make declarations of
will on behalf of Shareholder or by proxy. The right to represent
Shareholder not being natural person should result from the relevant
excerpt from the register or documents duly indicating the
authorisation of the proxy, presented during the preparation of the
attendance list. Person granting power of attorney on behalf of
Shareholder not being natural person should be indicated in the current
excerpt from the relevant register.
- The power of attorney to
act on behalf of Shareholder should be made in writing, otherwise null
and void. The power of attorney made in foreign language should be
translated into Polish, by sworn translator.
- It is assumed that
written document confirming the right to represent Shareholder during
the General Meeting shall be compliant with law and shall not require
additional confirmation, unless its authenticity or validity arises
doubts of the Management Board of the Company (while putting on the
attendance list) or the Chairperson of the General Meeting.
- The member of the Management Board and the employee of the Company cannot be proxies during the General Meeting.
- Shareholder
shall have the right to grant power of attorney to many persons;
however during the General Meeting only one person can represent him.
§5 Opening of the General Meeting
- The
General Meeting shall be opened by the Chairperson of the Supervisory
Board or in case of his absence - the Vice-Chairperson of the
Supervisory Board - and in the event of absence of both, the President
of the Company's Management Board or the person designated by the
Management Board shall open the General Meeting. The person opening the
General Meeting shall immediately order the election of the Chairperson
of the General Meeting from among the people authorised to participate
in the General Meeting and shall preside the Meeting until the election
of that person, withholding from making any substantive or formal
decisions.
- The candidate to be a Chairperson of the General Meeting shall make for the minutes the declaration on the consent to candidate.
- If
more than one candidate is put up, the person opening the General
Meeting shall prepare the list of candidates, on which the names and
surnames of the candidates are placed upon their making declaration
referred to in para. 2 above. In such situation the election of the
Chairperson of the Meeting shall be made by voting on each candidate
separately in the alphabetical order.
- The election of the Chairperson of the Meeting shall take place by the absolute majority of votes cast in the secret voting.
- The
Chairperson of the Meeting shall become the candidate who received the
highest number of validly cast votes. If several candidates receive the
same number of votes, additional voting shall take place, in which
those candidates participate who received the same highest number of
votes.
- The Chairperson of the Meeting shall manage the
proceedings and shall be entitled to interpret these Regulations. He
shall ensure the efficient conduct of the Meeting and respect for the
rights and interest of all Shareholders by e.g. giving the floor,
accepting requests and resolutions drafts, discussing them, managing
and carrying out voting and determining the exhaustion of the agenda.
The Chairperson should in particular act against the abuse of rights by
the participants of the General Meeting and should ensure the respect
for the rights of the minority Shareholders. The Chairperson should not
without important reasons file resignation from this function, cannot
without reasonable reasons delay the signing of the minutes of the
General Meeting.
- Immediately upon the election of the
Chairperson the attendance list should be prepared containing the list
of all participants of the General Meeting with the number of votes
each of them represents and the eligible number of votes signed by the
Chairperson and then presented during the proceedings of the General
Meeting.
- The attendance list shall be made on the basis of the
list of Shareholders entitled to participate in the General Meeting,
prepared by the Management Board.
- At the request of
Shareholders holding at least one tenth of the share capital
represented during the General Meeting, the attendance list shall be
checked by the commission elected for this purpose, composing of at
least three persons. The requestors shall have the right to elect one
member of the commission.
- The attendance list shall be
supplemented with the authorised persons, declaring the participation
in the General Meeting during its proceedings.
§6 Agenda of the meeting
- The announced agenda of the meeting shall be adopted if no one from those present files motion to amend it.
- The Chairperson shall not have the right to delete or change the order of the matters put on the agenda.
- The
introduction of new matters to the agenda shall be impossible unless
the whole share capital is represented and no one from those present
files objection. However, the request to convene the Extraordinary
General Meeting and the requests of procedural character can be passed
even if they have not been put on the agenda.
- Voting on the
procedural matters can apply only to matters related to the proceedings
of the General Meeting. The resolutions which can influence the
exercise of the Shareholders' rights shall not be passed in the
resolution mode.
- The resolution to abandon the recognition of
the matter out on the agenda can be passed only if reasonable reasons
stand behind that. The request in that matter should be reasoned in
details. The removal from the agenda or the abandonment of recognition
of the matter put on the agenda at the request of Shareholders shall
require the consent of all Shareholders who filed the request and the
resolution of the General Meeting passed with the majority of three
fourth of votes.
§7 Course of the General Meeting
- Upon
the presentation of each matter put on the agenda, the Chairperson of
the General Meeting shall open discussion, giving the floor in the
order of reporting. By consent of the General Meeting the discussion
can be held on several points of the agenda at the same time.
- The
Chairperson of the General Meeting can give the floor to members of the
Management Board and Supervisory Board as well as the invited experts,
regardless of the order. The members of the Management Board and
Supervisory Board participating in the proceedings as well as certified
auditor of the Company, within the limits of their competences and the
scope necessary to settle the matters discussed at the General Meeting,
subject to the provisions of information duties of the public company
and the provisions of art. 428 of the Code of Commercial Companies
should provide all participants of the Meeting with explanations and
information on the Company.
- The floor can be given only in the matters covered by the adopted agenda and discussed at that time.
- While
recognising each point of the agenda, each Shareholder shall have the
right to single 5-minute speech and a 3-minute reply.
- Shareholder
shall have the right to propose amendments and the supplements to the
resolutions drafts covered by the agenda of the General Meeting - until
the closing of discussion on that point of agenda referring to the
resolution draft to which such proposal applies.
- These
proposals, together with brief justification, should be made in
writing, separately for each resolution draft, stating the name and
surname or the company's business name (name) of Shareholder, to the
Chairperson of the General Meeting.
- In formal matters the
Chairperson shall give the floor regardless of the order. Each
Shareholder can file request in a formal matter. The request in formal
matters shall be deemed the requests concerning the method of
proceedings and voting. Formal request shall be settled by the
Chairperson, and if necessary, upon the opinion of the persons
appointed by him.
- If the settlement of the formal request lies
outside the provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies, the
Articles of Association and these Regulations, the Chairperson shall
present the request for voting by the Meeting.
- In the event of
lack of persons willing to take the floor in reference to the given
point of agenda, the Chairperson shall close the discussion and state
the exhaustion of that point of proceedings.
- Upon the
exhaustion of the point of the proceedings referred to in para. 9
above, the participants of the Meeting cannot take the floor on the
matters related to the parts of the proceedings already closed.
- The
General Meeting can order breaks in the proceedings by the majority of
two third of votes. Totally the breaks cannot last longer than 30 days.
- Short
breaks in proceedings, ordered by the Chairperson of the General
Meeting in reasonable cases cannot be aimed to be the obstacle for the
Shareholder in exercise of their rights.
- Upon exhausting the meeting agenda, the Chairperson shall close the Meeting.
§8 Voting
- Voting shall take place in unclassified way by raising hand, subject to para. 2 below.
- Secret
voting shall be ordered during elections and in the event of request to
dismiss the members or liquidators of the Company's governing bodies,
bring them to justice as well as in personal matters. Secret voting
shall be ordered as well at the request of even one of the Shareholders
present or represented during the General Meeting.
- Unless the
provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies state otherwise, the
General Meeting can pass resolution regardless of the number of shares
represented during the meeting.
- The resolutions of the General
Meeting shall be passed with the absolute majority of votes unless the
Articles of Association or the Code of Commercial Companies state
otherwise. The absolute majority of votes shall mean more than half of
the vote cast. Votes cast shall be votes "for", "against" or
"withhold". Invalid votes shall not be accounted for.
- The
Chairperson shall ensure the possibility to present brief justification
of objection cast for the Shareholders who report objection to the
resolution to the minutes of the General Meeting. The objecting
Shareholder should represent that he voted against the resolution.
- In
the event the voting takes place by means of the electronic /computer/
system of voting and counting votes, the system should ensure the
casting of votes in the number reflecting the number of votes held, for
the resolution or request, against it or withholding votes. In the
event of the secret voting, the system should ensure the elimination of
the identification of method of voting of single Shareholders.
- The
participant of the General Meeting leaving the room during the
proceedings should sign off his voting card and upon returning to the
room - sign it in for the subsequent time. If Shareholder does not sign
off, then the votes eligible for him shall be deemed to be withholding
votes in the event the absence from the room shall take place during
voting.
- In the event Shareholder present during the General
Meeting does not cast vote during the voting, then the votes eligible
for him shall be deemed in the voting result as withholding votes.
§9 Election of the Supervisory Board
- The number of the members of Supervisory Board shall be determined by the Articles of Association and the General Meeting.
- The
members of Supervisory Board shall be elected by the absolute majority
of votes in the secret voting from among the unlimited number of
candidates. Separate voting shall be made for each candidate.
- The
members of the Supervisory Board shall become those candidates who
received the highest number of votes "for". In the event the candidates
qualified to enter the Supervisory Board has scored the equal number of
votes, the Chairperson of the General Meeting shall order supplementary
voting in order to elect candidate who received the highest number of
votes in such voting.
- Shareholder listing the candidates for
the members of the Supervisory Board should justify their election in
the matter enabling reasonable election. The member of the Supervisory
Board should have appropriate education, experience, both professional
and life, as well as represent high level of morale and be able to
devote necessary amount of time to properly execute his function in the
Supervisory Board.
- Prior to the voting on the election of
candidate listed for the member of the Supervisory Board, the
Chairperson shall check whether he gave his consent to candidate, what
can be made in form of a written or oral statement, if the candidate
participates in the General Meeting. The consent shall be equal with
the approval of the mandate in the event of appointment for the member
of the Supervisory Board.
- At the request of Shareholder(s)
representing at least one fifth of the Company's share capital, the
election of the Supervisory Board should be made by the earliest
General Meeting by means of voting in separate groups, even if the
Articles of Association state different method of the Supervisory Board
election.
- The request referred to in para. 6 above, should be
filed to the Management Board in such deadline so that the announcement
on the convening of the General Meeting include information on the
planned election of the Supervisory Board by means of voting in
separate groups. The request filed after that period can be discussed
only during the earliest General Meeting.
- Persons, representing
during the General Meeting this part of shares which is allocated from
the division of the total number of shares represented by the number of
the members of the Supervisory Board, can create a separate group in
order to elect one member of the Board, however they do not participate
in the election of the remaining members of the Board.
- The
mandates in the Supervisory Board remaining vacant due to non-election
by the relevant group of Shareholder(s), created pursuant to para. 8
above, shall be filled by means of voting in which all Shareholders
participate, the votes of whom were not cast during the election of the
members of the Supervisory Board, elected by means of voting in
separate groups.
- If during the General Meeting referred to in
para. 6 above, no group capable of electing member of the Supervisory
Board shall be elected, the elections shall not be carried out unless
on the agenda of the General Meeting there were, not only the point
about election by groups, but changes in the composition of the
Supervisory Board as well.
- With the moment of electing of at
least one member of the Supervisory Board by means of voting by groups,
the early mandates of all present members of the Supervisory Board
shall expire, with the exception of people appointed to the Supervisory
Board by the entity stated in other act that the Code of Commercial
Companies, referred to in art. 385 §4 of the Code of Commercial
Companies.
§10 Voting committee
- The General Meeting may elect the voting committee.
- The
voting committee shall consist of three members, unless the General
Meeting states otherwise, selected from among the candidates proposed
by the participants of the Meeting.
- In the event the voting
committee is selected, its duties shall include the supervision over
the proper course of voting as well as control and transfer of the
results of votings to the Chairperson of the General Meeting.
§11 The minutes of the General Meetings
- The notary public shall take minutes of the resolutions and the course of the General Meeting.
- In
the minutes the validity of the General Meeting convening should be
stated as well as its capability to pass resolutions, the resolutions
passed, number of votes cast for each resolution and objections made
should be listed. The attendance list with signatures of the
participants of the General Meeting should be attached to the minutes.
- The minutes from the General Meeting shall be signed by the Chairperson of the Meeting and the notary public.
- The
Management Board shall attach to the book of minutes the excerpt from
the minutes with the evidence of convening the General Meeting and with
the powers of attorney granted by the Shareholders.
- The minutes from the General Meeting shall be kept in the office of the Management Board.
- Each
of the Shareholders shall have the right to review the book of minutes
and request to make copies of relevant resolutions, certified by the
Management Board.
§12 The amendment of Regulations
- The amendment to these Regulations shall require the resolution of the General Meeting.
- Any
amendments to the Regulations shall be valid from the General Meeting
following the Meeting, during which the amendments thereto were passed.
- In
the event of the amendments to these Regulations by the General
Meeting, the Management Board shall be obliged to prepare unified text
thereof within 14 days.
§13 Final Provisions
- To the matters not regulated by these Regulations the appropriate provisions of the law and Articles of Association shall apply.
- The Company shall bear costs related to convening and holding of the General Meeting.
- The Management Board shall ensure the administrative and technical processing of the General Meeting.
- The Regulations shall enter into force as of its passing.
These
Regulations have been adopted by the Resolution No. 5/2007 of the
Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company OPTOPOL S.A. on 10
September 2007.
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