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1. The General Shareholders’ Meeting shall yearly determine an annual fixed amount to be<br />

distributed among the Directors as remuner<strong>at</strong>ion, both monetary <strong>and</strong>/or in kind.<br />

2. The Board shall determine within each financial year the specific amount to be received by each<br />

of its members, <strong>and</strong> may adjust the amount to be received by each of them, depending on their<br />

membership or otherwise of the deleg<strong>at</strong>ed bodies of the Board, their posts held therein, or in<br />

general, on their dedic<strong>at</strong>ion to the administr<strong>at</strong>ive duties or in the service of the Company. The<br />

Board may also rule th<strong>at</strong> one or several Directors should not be remuner<strong>at</strong>ed.<br />

3. The members of the Board of Directors shall also receive, in each financial year, the<br />

corresponding expenses for <strong>at</strong>tendance <strong>at</strong> sessions of the Board of Directors <strong>and</strong>/or sessions of<br />

the Committees of the Board, as determined by the General Meeting, <strong>and</strong> also the payment of<br />

verified travel expenses incurred in <strong>at</strong>tending such sessions of the Board of Directors or<br />

Committees of the Board.<br />

4. The Directors may be paid in shares in the Company or in another company in the group to<br />

which it belongs, in options over them or in instruments linked to their share price. When referring<br />

to shares in the Company or instruments linked to their share price, this remuner<strong>at</strong>ion must be<br />

passed by the General Shareholders’ Meeting. Any such resolution must st<strong>at</strong>e the number of<br />

shares to be delivered, the price <strong>at</strong> which the option rights may be exercised, the value of the<br />

shares taken as a reference <strong>and</strong> the term this form of remuner<strong>at</strong>ion lasts.<br />

5. The Board shall ensure th<strong>at</strong> remuner<strong>at</strong>ions are reasonable with respect to market dem<strong>and</strong>s. In<br />

particular, the Board shall adopt any measures <strong>at</strong> its disposal in order to ensure th<strong>at</strong> the<br />

remuner<strong>at</strong>ion of the external Directors, including th<strong>at</strong> received by them as members of<br />

Committees, follows the following guidelines:<br />

(a) external Directors shall be remuner<strong>at</strong>ed with respect to their effective dedic<strong>at</strong>ion, qualific<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

<strong>and</strong> responsibility;<br />

(b) the amount of remuner<strong>at</strong>ion of external Directors shall be calcul<strong>at</strong>ed so th<strong>at</strong> it offers incentives<br />

to dedic<strong>at</strong>ion, but <strong>at</strong> the same time without constituting an impediment to their independence; <strong>and</strong><br />

(c) external Directors shall be excluded from remuner<strong>at</strong>ions consisting of deliveries of shares,<br />

share options or instruments linked to share price <strong>and</strong> also welfare provision funds financed by the<br />

Company for events of cease of office, decease or any other. Notwithst<strong>and</strong>ing with this, the<br />

deliveries of shares are excluded from this limit<strong>at</strong>ion when the external Directors are obliged to<br />

hold the shares until the end of their tenure.<br />

6. The Company is authorized to contract civil liability insurance for its Directors.<br />

7. Amounts to be received by virtue of this article shall be comp<strong>at</strong>ible with <strong>and</strong> independent of<br />

salaries, remuner<strong>at</strong>ions, indemnities, pensions, share options or remuner<strong>at</strong>ions of any kind<br />

established with general or singular n<strong>at</strong>ure for those members of the Board of Directors who<br />

perform executive functions, wh<strong>at</strong>ever the n<strong>at</strong>ure of their <strong>rel<strong>at</strong>ions</strong>hip with the Company.<br />

8. Remuner<strong>at</strong>ions of external Directors <strong>and</strong> executive Directors, in the l<strong>at</strong>ter case in the part<br />

corresponding to his post as a Director leaving aside his executive function, shall be recorded in<br />

the annual report on an individual basis for each Director. Those corresponding to executive<br />

Directors, in the part corresponding to his executive function, shall be included on a grouped<br />

basis, with breakdown of the different remunerable items.<br />

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