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While this translation was carried out by a professional translation agency, the text<br />

is to be regarded as an unofficial translation based on the latest official Consolidated<br />

<strong>Act</strong> no. 286 of 4 April 2006. Only the Danish document has legal validity.<br />

October 2006, GlobalDenmark Translations<br />

67.-(1) The notice convening a general meeting in a financial undertaking or shareholder<br />

committee meeting in savings banks respectively shall be available to the public and in<br />

accordance with the provisions of the articles of association. The press shall have access to<br />

general meetings and shareholder committee meetings in savings banks respectively.<br />

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to undertakings which are wholly owned by a financial<br />

undertaking or financial undertakings in the same group.<br />

68. For financial undertakings, the Danish FSA shall exercise the powers that have been<br />

assigned to the Commerce and Companies Agency under section 72(2) of the Public<br />

Companies <strong>Act</strong>.<br />

69. A shareholder committee may be set up to carry out specific tasks mentioned in the<br />

articles of association including elections to the board of directors. The members of the<br />

shareholder committee shall be subject to the same responsibilities with regard to their duties<br />

as the board of directors. This provision shall not apply to savings banks.<br />

70. The board of directors of a financial undertaking shall prepare written guidelines on the<br />

most significant areas of activity of said financial undertaking, specifying the distribution of<br />

responsibilities between the board of directors and the board of management.<br />

71.-(1) A financial undertaking shall have<br />

1) good administrative and accounting practises,<br />

2) written procedures for all significant areas of activity,<br />

3) full internal control procedures,<br />

4) adequate IT control and security measures, and<br />

5) the resources necessary for proper carrying out of its activities, and use these<br />

appropriately.<br />

(2) The Danish FSA shall stipulate guidelines for the areas mentioned in subsection (1).<br />

72.-(1) Where a financial undertaking is licensed to operate as a securities dealer, the<br />

undertaking shall<br />

1) take adequate steps to ensure its customers' right of ownership of their securities and<br />

contracts on currency spot transactions for investment purposes with a view to<br />

achieving a profit on changes in the rate of exchange, and<br />

2) organise and build its activities in such a way that the risk of conflicts of interest<br />

mutually between the customers of the securities dealer, and between the customers<br />

and the securities dealer is limited as much as possible.<br />

(2) A financial undertaking licensed to operate as a securities dealer may not have the<br />

disposal of its customers' securities without the explicit consent of said customer.<br />

(3) A financial undertaking licensed to operate as a securities dealer may keep customers'<br />

securities in an omnibus account or safekeep if the financial undertaking has informed the<br />

individual customer about the legal consequences hereof and said customer has consented to<br />

this. The Danish FSA may, in exceptional cases, authorise that securities owned by a financial<br />

undertaking and its customers are kept in the same safekeep account. A financial undertaking<br />

shall keep a register designating clearly the individual ownership of the registered securities.<br />

EXCLUDING MINOR AMENDMENTS

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