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Announcement on the Annual General Meeting of Magyar Telekom Plc.
Budapest, March 11, 2011 08:00
The Board of Directors of Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company (registered seat: 1013 Budapest, Krisztina krt. 55.; Court of Registration: Metropolitan Court acting as Court of Registration; Registration Number: Cg. 01-10-041928) (the "Company") hereby notifies the Shareholders of the Company that it convenes its Annual General Meeting at 11.00 a.m. on April 12, 2011. Venue of the General Meeting: The Headquarters of Magyar Telekom, Tölösi Conference Center (Budapest, 1st district, Krisztina krt. 55.). Way of organizing the General Meeting: attendance in person.
Agenda of the General Meeting:
1. Report of the Board
of Directors on the management of Magyar Telekom Plc., on the business
operation, on the business policy and on the financial situation of the Company
and Magyar Telekom Group in 2010;
2. Decision on the approval of the
2010 consolidated annual financial statements of the Company prescribed by the
Accounting Act according to the requirements of the International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS); presentation of the relevant report of the
Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Auditor;
3. Decision on
the approval of the 2010 annual stand alone financial statements of the Company
prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Accounting Act (HAR);
presentation of the relevant report of the Supervisory Board, the Audit
Committee and the Auditor;
4. Proposal of the Board of Directors for the
use of the profit after tax earned in 2010; presentation of the relevant report
of the Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Auditor; decision on the
use of the profit after tax earned in 2010, on the payment of dividends;
5. Authorization of the Board of Directors to purchase ordinary Magyar
Telekom shares;
6. Decision on the approval of the Corporate Governance
and Management Report;
7. Decision on granting relief from liability to
the members of the Board of Directors;
8. Decision on the amendments of
the Articles of Association of Magyar Telekom Plc.: 1.4 Sites and Branch Offices
of the Company; 1.6.2. Other activities; 2.4. Transfer of shares (b); 2.5.
Shareholders' Register (2.5.3.); 4.5. Payment of Dividends; 4.7. Conditions for
a General Meeting resolution resulting in the delisting of shares from the stock
exchange; 5. Rights to Information and Closing of the Shareholders' Register and
5.3. Closing of the Shareholders' Register; 6.2. Matters within the Exclusive
Scope of Authority of the General Meeting (h), (p); 7.4. Rules of Procedure and
Chairman of the Board of Directors (7.4.1. (o)); 8.2. Members of the Supervisory
Board (8.2.4.); 8.7. Audit Committee (8.7.1., 8.7.3., 8.7.5.); 9.4. Auditor's
Conflict of Interest;
9. Approval of the amended Rules of Procedures of
the Supervisory Board;
10. Election of Member(s) of the Board of
Directors, determination of the remuneration of the Board of Directors;
11. Election of Member(s) of the Supervisory Board;
12. Election
of the Company's Auditor and determination of its remuneration. Election of the
Auditor personally responsible for the audit and the appointed deputy auditor.
Conditions for participation and exercising voting rights at the General
Meeting
Shareholders may exercise shareholder's rights at the
General Meeting either in person or through a duly authorized representative.
a) Shareholders participating in person shall identify themselves with
their identity card or passport whereas their shareholder status is certified
through being registered in the Share Registry. In order to ensure that
shareholders are registered in the Share Registry the Company orders owner
identification during which the securities account managers send the data of
shareholders to KELER Zrt. that, on the basis of the received information,
registers shareholders in the Share Registry until its closing. Shareholders who
certify their shareholder status prior to the General Meeting, during
registration by way of a securities account statement, issued to the name of the
shareholder but are not registered in the Share Registry, may participate at the
General Meeting but may not exercise voting rights.
b) Any proxy shall
be set forth in a notarized document or a private document with full probative
force. If the proxy was prepared abroad the proxy must meet the requirements of
the laws on the certification and super-certification of formal foreign
documents. Further details can be obtained at the respective Hungarian embassy.
The proxy shall be submitted during registration prior to the commencement of
the General Meeting. In the event that the proxy was not issued in the Hungarian
(or English) language, official Hungarian translation shall also be attached to
the document. In the case of non-natural person shareholders, the powers of
representation of the persons either signing the power of attorney or
representing non-natural person shareholders at the General Meeting shall be
certified by appropriate documents issued by a public authority or office (e.g.
certificate of incorporation) or by a public notary. If the certification of the
power of representation is in any language other than Hungarian (or English),
official Hungarian translation thereof shall be attached. Regarding the exercise
of the voting rights the provisions of Section a) shall apply respectively to
regarding the authorized representative.
c) Securities account managers,
registered in the Share Registry and acting as nominees may act on behalf of the
shareholder pursuant to Act CXX of 2001 (Act on Capital Markets).
The
condition of exercising voting rights is that the shareholder or the nominee
(except proxy holders acting on the basis of the authorization of the
shareholder issued in the form of a notarized document or a private document
with full probative force) is registered as such in the Share Registry at least
six (6) working days prior to the date of the General Meeting (i.e. latest by
April 1, 2011). With regard to registration in the Share Registry the Company
will request the owner identification of ordinary shares without blocking from
KELER Zrt., with respect to shares issued by the Company in the face value of
HUF 100 under serial number HU0000073507 ISIN with the record date of March 30,
2011. The registration of shareholders in the Share Registry shall be ensured by
their respective securities account managers or if it is not requested by the
securities account manager, the shareholder may initiate it in accordance with
the provisions of the Articles of Association. Shareholders are informed by
their securities account manager of the execution deadline for giving
instructions to be registered in the Share Registry. The Company shall not be
responsible for the consequences of any failure on behalf of securities account
manager. The closing of the Share Registry will take place at 3.00 p.m., on
April 1, 2011.
Any person shall be entitled to exercise shareholders'
rights at the General Meeting, if such person has been duly registered in the
Share Registry at the time of the closing of the Share Registry. The closing of
the Share Registry does not limit the right of the shareholders registered in
the Share Registry to transfer their shares following the closing of the Share
Registry. Transfer of shares prior to the commencement date of the General
Meeting does not affect the right of persons registered in the Share Registry to
participate at the General Meeting and to exercise their shareholders' rights
thereat.
Registration will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. on the
day of the General Meeting. In the event of appearance later than the above
indicated period the Company shall not be responsible if the shareholder (or the
proxy) misses part of the General Meeting due to late registration.
If
the General Meeting does not have a quorum, the Board of Directors convenes the
repeated General Meeting to April 26, 2011 at 11.00 a.m. with the same agenda
and at the same venue. Registration will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
on the day of the repeated General Meeting. The repeated General Meeting shall
have a quorum irrespective of the number of shareholders/votes being present.
Rights to information
Each shareholder complying with
the above conditions has the right to participate at the General Meeting, to
request information and to make comments. Holders of voting shares have the
right to make proposals and to vote.
The Board of Directors shall
provide the necessary information to any shareholder with respect to any matter
on the agenda of the General Meeting upon the request of such shareholder
submitted in writing at least eight days prior to the date of the General
Meeting. The Board of Directors may refuse to provide such information only if
that would violate a substantial business interest or business secret of the
Company. As part of the rights of shareholders to information shareholders may
not have access to the business books and other business documents of the
Company.
Supplements to the agenda of a General Meeting
Shareholders representing at least one percent of the votes
may, within eight days from the publication of the Announcement on the
convocation of the General Meeting, request the Board of Directors in writing to
include any issue in the agenda of the General Meeting and submit resolution
proposals related to the agenda items.
Place of the availability of the documents of the General Meeting
Documents available in writing, and required by Section 304(1) of the
Companies Act, of the General Meeting to be held on April 12, 2011 will be
available subsequent to the publication on the web site of the Company from
March 21, 2011 at the customer service office of KELER Zrt. (1075 Budapest,
Asbóth u. 9-11.) between 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., on the web site of the Company
(www.telekom.hu), on the web site of the Budapest Stock Exchange (www.bet.hu)
and at the place of the General Meeting from the commencement of registration
(April 12, 2011, from 9.00 a.m.).
This announcement is published in
Hungarian and English. The Hungarian version shall prevail in case of any
discrepancy between the two versions.