24.01.2013 Views

Amadeus IT Holding, S.A. and Subsidiaries - Investor relations at ...

Amadeus IT Holding, S.A. and Subsidiaries - Investor relations at ...

Amadeus IT Holding, S.A. and Subsidiaries - Investor relations at ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

shareholders <strong>and</strong> provided th<strong>at</strong> said present<strong>at</strong>ion is simultaneously disclosed to the CNMV or<br />

published on the Company’s website.<br />

The Board of Directors should encourage informed particip<strong>at</strong>ion of shareholders in the General<br />

Shareholders’ Meetings <strong>and</strong> take the necessary steps to ensure th<strong>at</strong> the meeting effectively<br />

exercises its functions as per the law <strong>and</strong> the Corpor<strong>at</strong>e Bylaws.<br />

In particular, the Board of Directors shall adopt the following measures:<br />

(a) it shall endeavor to make available to the shareholders, prior to the General Meeting, all<br />

inform<strong>at</strong>ion legally required <strong>and</strong> all inform<strong>at</strong>ion which, albeit not legally required, may be of<br />

interest <strong>and</strong> may be reasonably supplied;<br />

(b) it shall fill, with the outmost diligence, requests for inform<strong>at</strong>ion formul<strong>at</strong>ed by shareholders<br />

prior to the General Meeting;<br />

(c) it shall h<strong>and</strong>le, with the same diligence, questions formul<strong>at</strong>ed to it by shareholders on the<br />

occasion of holding the General Meeting; <strong>and</strong><br />

(d) it shall ensure th<strong>at</strong> the items proposed to the General Meeting is voted on in an orderly<br />

manner <strong>and</strong> separ<strong>at</strong>ely, giving the shareholders a chance to intervene in order to express their<br />

opinion on each one of the m<strong>at</strong>ters submitted to voting.<br />

E.4. Please specify any measures adopted to encourage the particip<strong>at</strong>ion of shareholders in<br />

General Shareholders’ Meetings.<br />

The General Shareholders’ Meeting is the fundamental framework th<strong>at</strong> regul<strong>at</strong>es shareholder<br />

rights, both as regards the right to inform<strong>at</strong>ion, <strong>at</strong>tendance rights, interventions <strong>at</strong> the General<br />

Meeting <strong>and</strong> exercising the right to vote.<br />

The Company, <strong>at</strong> the time of calling the General Meeting, put <strong>at</strong> the shareholders disposal the<br />

proposed resolutions, reports <strong>and</strong> other document<strong>at</strong>ion in rel<strong>at</strong>ion to the business included on<br />

the agenda, as required by Law <strong>and</strong> the Bylaws. Said document<strong>at</strong>ion is also made available to<br />

the shareholders on the Company’s website as from the time indic<strong>at</strong>ed above, all of which<br />

without prejudice to the fact th<strong>at</strong>, in addition, when legally applicable, the shareholders may<br />

request delivery or sending, free of charge, of the full text of the documents placed <strong>at</strong> their<br />

disposal. The new wording of article 518 of the Spanish Capital Companies Act (Ley de<br />

Sociedades de Capital) sets out the general inform<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> must be published, prior to the<br />

General Meeting, on an uninterrupted basis, on the Company’s website.<br />

Provided th<strong>at</strong> it is legally possible <strong>and</strong>, in the judgement of the Board of Directors, the<br />

necessary guarantees of transparency <strong>and</strong> security are present, voting may be fractioned in<br />

order th<strong>at</strong> the financial intermediaries who appear to have st<strong>and</strong>ing as shareholders but who<br />

act for the account of different clients, may fraction their votes in accordance with the<br />

instructions of said clients.<br />

Furthermore, in accordance with the provisions of the Corpor<strong>at</strong>e Bylaws, the exercise of the<br />

right to vote on proposed resolutions pertaining to the items included on the agenda, may be<br />

deleg<strong>at</strong>ed or exercised by the shareholder through postal, electronic correspondence or any<br />

other means of electronic remote communic<strong>at</strong>ion, provided th<strong>at</strong> for such cases the Company<br />

has established procedures th<strong>at</strong> duly guarantee the identity of the subject exercising his or her<br />

voting right <strong>and</strong> a record of the identity <strong>and</strong> st<strong>at</strong>us (shareholder or proxyholder) of those voting,<br />

the number of shares being voted <strong>and</strong> the direction of the vote or, as the case may be, of the<br />

abstention.<br />

In any case, the procedures established for exercising proxy rights or voting by means of<br />

electronic remote communic<strong>at</strong>ion, shall be published in the official notice of the General<br />

Meeting <strong>and</strong> on the Company’s website.<br />

44

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!