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The regulations of the management Board
THE REGULATIONS OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD OPTOPOL Technology SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA (JOINT STOCK COMPANY) IN ZAWIERCIE
(unified
text passed by the resolution No. 1/2007 of the Supervisory Board of
OPTOPOL Technology Spółka Akcyjna in Zawiercie of 7 December 2007)
§ 1. Subject of the Regulations
These
Regulations shall determine the organisation of the works of the
Management Board of OPTOPOL Technology Spółka Akcyjna in Zawiercie
(„Company”) and the way of performing activities by the Management
Board.
§ 2. Definitions
For purposes of these Regulations, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:
- "Company"
- OPTOPOL Technology Spółka Akcyjna with its registered office in
Zawiercie, at ul. Żabia 42, 42-400 Zawiercie, entered into the Register
of Entrepreneurs – the National Court Register in the District Court in
Częstochowa, 17th Commercial Division of the National Court Register
under the number KRS 0000244054;
- "General Meeting" – means General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company;
- "Supervisory Board" – means the Supervisory Board of the Company;
- "Management Board" – means the Management Board of the Company;
- "Articles
of Association" – mean Articles of Association of the Company passed
with the resolution no. 1/2005 of the Extraordinary General Meeting of
OPTOPOL Technology Spółka Akcyjna, with its registered office in
Zawiercie of 10 September 2007 (notary need made by the notary public
Łukasz Roztoczyński, having his notary office in Katowice, Repertory A
no. 12726/2007) as amended;
- "Regulations" – mean these Regulations of the Management Board;
- "Member
of the Management Board" - means person dully appointed to the
Management Board of the Company, pursuant to the provisions of the
Company's Articles of Association and the Code of Commercial Companies;
§ 3. Management Board
- The
Management Board shall manage the activities of the Company, manage and
dispose of its movable and immovable assets and the rights assigned to
the Company, pass resolutions and decisions in all matters not
restricted to the General Meeting or Supervisory Board.
- The Management Board shall act on the basis and pursuant to:
- Applicable provisions of law, including the provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies;
- Articles of Associations of the Company; and
- These Regulations.
§ 4. Members of the Management Board
- The
Management Board shall consist of 1 (one) to 3 (three) members,
including the President of the Management Board, elected and dismissed
by the Supervisory Board.
- The term of each member of the
Management Board shall be 3 (three) years. The mandate of the member of
the Management Board shall expire with the day of holding the Ordinary
General Meeting approving the financial statements for the last full
financial year of holding the position of the member of the Management
Board. The member of the Management Board can be also dismissed by the
General Meeting prior to the end of the term.
- The members of the Management Board shall perform their duties personally.
- The President of the Management Board shall manage the internal activity of the Management Board.
§ 5. Rights and duties the Management Board
- The Management Board shall collegially manage the current Company’s activities, and in particular:
- Shall
take all activities necessary or recommended in order to manage the
Company’s activity properly within the scope stipulated in the Articles
of Association, pursuant to the resolutions of the General Meeting and
the Supervisory Board, subject to matters restricted by law or the
Articles of Association to the competences of the General Meeting or
the Supervisory Board;
- Shall represent the Company in all court and non-court proceedings;
- Shall manage the Company’s assets and matters.
- The
detailed internal scope of duties of single members of the Management
Board resulting from functions assigned them in the Management Board
constitutes Attachment No. 1 hereto, which is the integral part hereof.
- Each
member of the Management Board can manage, without prior resolution of
the Management Board, the matters not exceeding the ordinary activities
of the Company. If however prior to settle such matter, any of the
remaining members of the Management Board objects or if the matter
exceeds the scope of ordinary activities of the Company, the prior
resolution of the Management Board shall be required.
- The Management Board shall also perform the following activities:
- Convene the General Meeting pursuant to the applicable provisions of law and in the dates stated there;
- Keep
and store the book of minutes and book of resolutions of the General
Meeting and keep and store the book of minutes and book of resolutions
of the Supervisory Board;
- By the end of 3 (third) month from
the end of financial year, the Management Board of the Company shall
prepare annual financial statements and the report on Company’s
activities, and upon their examination and providing opinion by
certified auditors, together with the resolutions draft on the division
of profit or cover of loss together with the opinion and the report of
certified auditors shall be submitted by the Management Board to the
Supervisory Board for its assessment pursuant to art. 382 § 3 of the
Code of the Commercial Companies and not later that 30 (thirty) days
prior to the date of Ordinary General Meeting.
- Ensure timely examination of financial statements of the Company by independent certified auditor;
- Present
the Supervisory Board or General Meeting all necessary data,
explanations and documents concerning the Company and its business
activity;
- Ensure administrative and office assistance of other governing bodies of the Company;
- Inform
the competent Registration Court on all amendments to data entered in
the Register of Entrepreneurs - the National Court Register pursuant to
the applicable provisions of law and in the dates stated there;
- Prepare long-term strategic plans of the Company and annual budgets of the Company;
- Ensure
keeping of accounting and commercial books of the Company and prepare
financial statements and other reports of the Company pursuant to the
applicable provisions of law;
- Ensure preparation of all tax and
financial documents pursuant to the applicable provisions of law and in
the dates stated there;
- Determine and ensure the proper organisational structure of the Company;
- Exercise
the right of the Company related to the participation in
partnerships/companies of civil law or companies/partnerships of
commercial law and legal entities or organisations, in particular the
right of vote from shares held by the Company;
- Prepare unified text of the Articles of Association of the Company for internal use.
- Each
member of the Management Board shall actively participate in the works
of the Management Board, including the participation in all meetings of
the Management Board and voting during these meetings.
§ 6. Performance of the function of the members of the Management Board
- In
the event of the multi-personal Management Board, the Company can be
represented by the President of the Management Board individually or by
2 (two) members of the Management Board acting jointly or member of the
Management Board together with procurator.
- Representations
addressed to the Company, as well as service of documents can be made
to the each member of the Management Board.
§ 7. THE MEETINGS OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
- The
meetings of the Management Board shall be held in the Company’s
registered office or in other place determined by the President of the
Management Board.
- The meeting of the Management Board shall be
convened by the President of the Management Board at own initiative or
at the request of the member of the Management Board. The form of
convening the meeting by the President of the Management Board, as well
as the form of filing the request to convene meetings shall be free.
- The
meeting of the Management Board can be held by means of telephone or
other means of remote communications, enabling the communication of all
members of the Management Board participating in the meeting, provided
that all members of the Management Board participate in the meeting. In
the event of holding meeting in the above mentioned way, the place
where the President of the Management Board is, shall be deemed to be
the place of holding the meeting.
- The meetings of the
Management Board shall be held as often as required to ensure due
management of the Company and carrying out its activities.
- The meeting shall be held in the dates enabling the participation of each member of the Management Board.
- The President of the Management Board shall open and preside the meeting and supervise its course.
- The President of the Management Board shall be in particular obliged to:
- Open the meeting and state it is duly convened and to propose the passing of the agenda;
- Lead and close discussions on the single points on the agenda;
- give the floor to the participants of the meeting;
- vote over the resolutions and carry out the voting;
- Designate person responsible for preparation of minutes and keeping records of resolutions;
- Close the meetings.
- Persons
invited by any member of the Management Board can participate in the
meetings of the Management Board if no member of the Management Board
objects that.
- Decisions of the Management Board shall be passed
in a form of resolution. Subject to the preceding sentence, the
resolutions of the Management Board shall be passed during its
meetings. The Management Board may pass the resolution without holding
the meeting if all members of the Management Board consented to the
text of the resolution in writing. The request to pass the resolution
in the written mode, referred to in the preceding sentence, can be made
by each member of the Management Board. Such request will the
resolution draft should be served on all members of the Management
Board.
- The Management Board shall pass binding resolutions if all members have been duly notified about the meeting.
- Resolutions of the Management Board shall be passed by the absolute majority of votes cast.
- The
Management Board shall unanimously decide on granting procuration. Each
member of the Management Board can cancel the procuration.
- Voting is unclassified, unless any of the Members of the Management Board request to settle a given matter in secret voting.
- In
the event of conflict of interest of the Company with the personal
interest of the member of the Management Board, his spouse, next of kin
and relatives up to the second degree and persons, with whom he is
related personally, the member of the Management Board shall refrain
from deciding in these matters and can requires to state that in the
minutes from the meeting.
§ 8. MINUTES OF THE MEETING.
Resolutions of the Management Board
- Person appointed by the chairperson of the given meeting shall prepare the minutes of that meeting.
- The minutes from the meeting of the Management Board should in particular include:
- Place and date of holding the meeting and representation that the meeting was duly convened;
- Names and surnames of the participants of the meeting;
- Agenda of the meeting;
- Brief description of the discussions held;
- Text of the resolutions;
- The results of voting on single resolutions, stating all other votes;
- Other important circumstances.
- The
resolutions passed during the meeting should be indicated in the
minutes of the meeting. The resolutions should be assigned numbers
within subsequent years. The minutes of the meeting should be approved
and signed by all Members of the Management Board participating in the
meeting, immediately upon closing the meeting.
- The resolutions
passed during the meetings held by means of telephone or other means of
remote communications should be confirmed by minutes, approved and
signed by all members of the Management Board within 7 (seven) days
after holding the meeting at the latest.
- The resolutions passed without holding the meeting should be attached to the book of minutes.
- The
resolutions of the Management Board shall be valid as of its passing
and signing of the minutes by all Members of the Management Board
participating in the meeting, including the text of the resolutions of
the Management Board, unless the resolutions states other date of
coming into force. The resolutions passed without holding the meeting
shall be valid as of expressing written consent by all Members of the
Management Board of the text of the resolution, unless the resolutions
states other date of coming into force.
- The Management Board
may issue copies of passed resolutions if it is necessary or
recommended due to Company’s business activity. The copies of
resolutions shall be certified by the President of the Management Board
and should be assigned the date of their passing.
- The
Management Board shall be responsible for keeping and storing the book
of minutes, where all minutes from single meetings of the Management
Board and resolutions passed in writing are attached.
- Each Member of the Management Board shall have the right to view the book of minutes and book of resolutions.
§ 9. Final Provisions
- The
newly elected Management Board of the company shall start performing
duties from formal taking over, on the basis of inventory, matters from
the stepping Management Board.
- The inventory should include the
report on the business and legal situation of the Company and companies
in which the Company holds shares as of the transfer, the Inventory
should be prepared by the stepping Management Board and should include,
in particular, the following documents:
- Shareholders register of the Company;
- Financial statements as of the transfer day;
- The list of important amounts receivable of the Company and companies in which the Company holds shares;
- The list of important liabilities and debts of the Company and companies in which the Company holds shares;
- The book of minutes and book of resolutions, kept by the Management Board;
- Other documents or information, any of the members of new Management Board requests.
- Inventory
should be signed by the stepping and newly appointed members of the
Management Board. The report, together with documents referred to in
para. 2, should be made in such number of copies, equal to the number
stepping and newly appointed members of the Management Board, with one
additional copy for the Company.
- If the transfer cannot be made
by the stepping Management Board, the inventory should be prepared by
the committee appointed by the Supervisory Board from among its
members. In such event the inventory should be signed by the
Supervisory Board.
- These Regulations shall be valid as of its
passing by the Supervisory Board pursuant to the Articles of
Association of the Company.
Attachment No. 1 To THE REGULATIONS OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD OPTOPOL Technology SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA (JOINT STOCK COMPANY)
The
detailed internal scope of duties of single members of the Management
Board resulting from functions assigned them in the Management Board
The President of the Management Board
- Management and organisation of the internal activity of the Management Board.
- Leading of the meetings of the Management Board.
- Organisation
of current cooperation of the Management Board with the supervisory
Board, including supervision on ensuring current administrative
assistance of the General Meeting and Supervisory Board.
- Supervision
of the way and quality of work performed by all employees of the
Company and their observance of the provisions of labour law applicable
in the Company, in particular the staff regulations, Remuneration
Regulations and the Company Social Benefits Scheme.
- Supervision over the Accounting Department, HR Department and the Occupational Safety and Health Service.
- Strategic commercial contacts with the Customers and Contractors of the Company.
- Ensuring preparation of the Management Board Activity Report for the each financial year;
Vice-President of the Management Board for Finance
- Supervision,
management and organisation of work of Controlling Department, Investor
Relation Department,Owner Supervision Department.
- Supervision over all aspect of finance and administration management in the Company.
- Planning and control of the Company’s business activity observing accounting principles.
- Supervision
on preparation and filing in the competent Registration Court and with
the relevant bodies of annual and periodical financial statements,
periodical reports on Company's and controlled companies financial
standing;
- Preparation of strategic analysis aimed at current
and long term determination of investment, financial or organisational
needs of the Company.
- Talks with banks and other institutions or persons crediting or financing the Company.
- Preparation
of annual and long-term financial plans and supervision on execution of
such plans approved by the Management Board and Supervisory Board.
- Supervision
over the processes of acquiring, spending and settlement of the target
funds by the Company, received from funds and financial institutions.
- Supervision over the Company’s cooperation with external advisors.
- Supervision
over the execution of the Company’s rights and duties related to the
trade with financial instruments issued by the Company and contacts and
cooperation with the bodies supervising control over the financial
market, bodies of The Stock Exchange and the bodies of the National
Securities Deposit, as well as entities issuing Company’s securities to
public trading and investment companies.
Vice-President of the Management Board for Commerce
- Supervision,
management and organisation of work of: Sales Department, Production
Department, Technical Department, Quality Control Department,
- Supervision over the quality control systems in the Company.
- Current
commercial contacts with Customers and Contractors of the Company and
distributors of the products produced by the Company;
- Preparation
and responsibility for the execution of annual and long-term sales
planes approved by the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.
- Search for new sales markets.
- Supervision
over the organisation and preparation of the Company’s participation in
planned conferences, exhibitions and congresses.
- Supervision over the introduction of new technology.
- Talks
and maintaining contacts with the bodies of public administration
competent for the products launched on the market by the Company.
- Supervision over the material investments held by the Company.
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