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Addresses:
Communications from the shareholders to the Company may be made by ordinary correspondence addressed to the central offices of the latter:
Corporación Financiera Alba, S.A.
Calle Castelló nº 77, 5th floor
28006 - Madrid
or by email addressed to: alba@corporacionalba.es
Corporación Financiera Alba, S.A.
Calle Castelló nº 77, 5th floor
28006 - Madrid
or by email addressed to: alba@corporacionalba.es
Shareholders' information rights
In respect of shareholders’ information rights and other information to be provided thereto, please note that several provisions of the Regulations governing the General Meeting of the Company, approved on May 22, 2003, refer to such issues.
Please find below a transcript of the aforementioned provisions:
“Article 7.- Information rights
The shareholders may request in writing, prior to the General Meeting or orally during the course of a meeting, any reports or clarifications as they deem necessary regarding the issues comprising the Agenda.
The Board of Directors shall be obliged to provide them at the General Meeting, except in such cases where, in the opinion of the Chairman, publicising the aforementioned data may damage corporate interest. This exception shall not apply when the request is supported by shareholders representing at least one fourth of the company’s share capital.”
The shareholders may request in writing, prior to the General Meeting or orally during the course of a meeting, any reports or clarifications as they deem necessary regarding the issues comprising the Agenda.
The Board of Directors shall be obliged to provide them at the General Meeting, except in such cases where, in the opinion of the Chairman, publicising the aforementioned data may damage corporate interest. This exception shall not apply when the request is supported by shareholders representing at least one fourth of the company’s share capital.”
“Article 19.- Information available to shareholders
Upon publication of the notice calling the General Meeting, the text of the notice; the Agenda; the text of any resolutions proposed to be adopted; the balance sheet, the profit and loss account, the annual report, the management report and the Auditors’ report, as the case may be; and any other reports and documents as may be appropriate in the cases legally provided thereto shall be made available to the shareholder, at the Company’s offices and website.”
Upon publication of the notice calling the General Meeting, the text of the notice; the Agenda; the text of any resolutions proposed to be adopted; the balance sheet, the profit and loss account, the annual report, the management report and the Auditors’ report, as the case may be; and any other reports and documents as may be appropriate in the cases legally provided thereto shall be made available to the shareholder, at the Company’s offices and website.”
“Article 25.- Interventions
1.- Upon debating the issues included in the Agenda, the Chairman may organise the debate so that shareholders may intervene once for each of the issues discussed, or once to pose all questions proposed by each of them, after presentation of the issues subject to deliberation.
1.- Upon debating the issues included in the Agenda, the Chairman may organise the debate so that shareholders may intervene once for each of the issues discussed, or once to pose all questions proposed by each of them, after presentation of the issues subject to deliberation.
2.- The Chairman shall reply to any questions raised by the shareholders individually or as a group, attending to the nature and relation between such questions. The Chairman may request in order to answer such questions the intervention of the Company’s Directors or Managers. Furthermore, and in respect of questions raised falling within the duties of the Audit Committee, the Chairman may request the intervention of the Chairman of the aforementioned Committee or, in the absence thereof, of any of its members.
3.- The Chairman may limit the time to be taken by any speakers, and also deem an issue sufficiently discussed whenever there should arise between the shareholders a discrepancy as to criteria, and if a unification of opinions fails to be achieved after a prudential period not longer than one hour, and the meeting shall proceed to immediate voting on the issue.
4.- Whenever the complexity of an issue should make the Chairman deem it impossible to give an adequate response during the session, a reply shall be given in writing, which shall be published in the Company website.”
“Article 30.- Publicity of Resolutions
Agreements adopted by the General Meeting shall be registered with the Commercial Registry when legally required, and shall be included temporarily in the Company website.”
Agreements adopted by the General Meeting shall be registered with the Commercial Registry when legally required, and shall be included temporarily in the Company website.”
Shareholder proposals and suggestions
Paragraph 2 Article 6 of the General Meeting’s Regulations refers to the possibility for part of the shareholders to formulate proposals or suggestions regarding the Company’s activities, setting forth that:
“Shareholders may formulate proposals, suggestions or comments and pose questions relating to the Company’s activities or interests. Any proposals, suggestions, comments or questions shall be examined by the Company’s relevant services, in order to give an individual or group reply thereto which, if it should be of interest, shall be disclosed in the Company website or, if deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors, shall be treated at the General Meeting.”