Regulatory filing
The Management Bard of Agora S.A. with its registered seat in Warsaw, at Czerska 8/10 ("the Company", "Agora"), registered in the Entrepreneurs Register held by the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw, XIII Economic Division of the National Court Register, under KRS no. 59944, acting pursuant to art. 395, art. 399 § 1, art. 402 (1) and art. 402 (2) of the Commercial Companies Code convenes the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Agora S.A. ("the General Meeting") for June 22, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. to be held in Warsaw at Czerska Street 8/10.
I. Proposed agenda of the General Meeting:
1. Opening of the General Meeting.
2. Election of the Chairman of the General Meeting, returning committee, agenda approval and other formal issues.
3. Management Board's presentation of the annual unconsolidated financial statements and the Management Board's report of the Company's activities in the fiscal year 2011, and of consolidated financial statements and report of the Group's activities in the fiscal year of 2011.
4. Supervisory Board's presentation of the concise evaluation of the Company's standing in 2011.
5. Supervisory Board's presentation of the report concerning the results of evaluation of the Company's and Group's financial statements for 2011 as well as the Management Board's motion on profit distribution.
6. Review and adoption of the annual unconsolidated financial statements and the Management Board's report of the Company's activities in the fiscal year 2011.
7. Review and adoption of the annual consolidated financial statements and the report of the Group's activities in the fiscal year 2011.
8. Adoption of the resolution on the profit distribution for the fiscal year 2011 and dividend payment.
9. Adoption of the resolutions on approving the Management Board's performance of their duties in 2011.
10. Supervisory Board's presentation of the report on Supervisory Board's activities in 2011, including Supervisory Board's work appraisal.
11. Adoption of the resolutions on approving the Supervisory Board's performance of their duties in 2011.
12. Approval of the appointment of the new Management Board members by the way of cooptation.
13. Closing of the General Meeting.
II. Registration Date
Date of registration in the Company's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders shall be June 6, 2012 ("Registration Date"). Registration Date is uniform for holders of bearer shares and registered shares
III. Right of shareholder to participate in the General Meeting
The shareholders possessing Agora's shares on the Registration Date shall be eligible to participate in Agora's General Meeting.
1. The holders of bearer shares shall be eligible to participate in the General Meeting provided:
a. That they possess Agora's shares on their securities account 16 days prior to the General Meeting (i.e. June 6, 2012), and
b. They submit a request for issuing a registered certificate of eligibility to participate in the General Meeting in the period between 28 May, 2012 until June 8, 2012 (inclusive) to the entity operating their securities account onto which shares of Agora S.A. have been recorded.
2. Persons eligible from registered shares and temporary certificates, lienors and users, with voting rights, may participate in the General Meeting, if their name is entered into the share ledger on the Registration Date.
The Company determines the list of Shareholders eligible to participate in the General Meeting on the basis of (i) a specification received from the National Securities Deposit prepared on the basis of certificates of eligibility issued by entities operating securities accounts and (ii) entries into the Company's share ledger.
The list of shareholders eligible to participate in the General Meeting shall be available three days prior to the Meeting i.e. on 19, 20 and 21 June, 2012 at the Company's registered seat in Warsaw, at Czerska Street 8/10.
A shareholder may request to be sent the list of shareholders free of charge by e-mail stating the address to which such a list should be sent. The request for sending the list of shareholders shall be sent to walne_zgromadzenie@agora.pl or submitted at the registered seat of the Company.
The request should be prepared in writing and signed by a shareholder or a person authorized by a shareholder, and:
a. in case of shareholders being individuals - the request shall be accompanied by a copy of a document evidencing identity of a shareholder (if the request is submitted via email),
b. in case of shareholders being legal persons and private companies - the request shall be accompanied by authorization to act in the name of such an entity by enclosing an excerpt from the Court Register or other appropriate register,
c. in case of a request submitted by a proxy it shall be accompanied, apart from documents specified in point a or b, by a power of attorney to file such a request (or uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney), signed by a shareholder and a copy of document evidencing identity of the proxy, and if the proxy is not an individual - a copy of an excerpt from the appropriate register, confirming authorization of a person acting in the name of the proxy not being an individual.
IV. Right of a shareholder to request placing of specific matters into the agenda of the General Meeting
Any shareholder representing at least 1/20 of the Company's share capital is entitled to request placing of specific matters into the agenda of the General Meeting. Such a request shall be submitted to the Company's Management Board no later than 21 days prior to the General Meeting i.e. by June 1, 2012. The request shall include a justification or a draft resolution relating to the proposed item of the agenda. Such a request may be submitted in writing at the Company's seat in Warsaw at Czerska Street 8/10, or by e-mail by sending to the dedicated e-mail address: walne_zgromadzenie@agora.pl.
A shareholder shall evidence the holding of an appropriate number of shares as at the date of submitting his request, by enclosing a registered certificate of deposit or registered certificate of eligibility to participate in the Company's General Meeting, and:
a. in case of shareholders being individuals - enclose copy of a document evidencing identity of the shareholder (if the request is placed by e-mail),
b. in case of shareholders being legal persons or private companies - evidence also their right to act on behalf of such entity by enclosing a current excerpt from the register appropriate for such a person or company;
c. in case of a request submitted by a proxy - apart from documents specified in points (a) or (b) enclose the power of attorney to place such a request signed by a shareholder (or an uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney) and copy of a document evidencing identity of a person who signed the request, and in case of proxy not being an individual - a copy of current excerpt from the register appropriate for such a person/company.
V. Right of shareholders to submit draft resolutions
Any shareholder representing at least 1/20 share capital is entitled to submit draft resolutions prior to the General Meeting in matters introduced into the agenda of the General Meeting or matters which are to be introduced into the agenda, in the following manner:
- in writing at the seat of Agora S.A. at Czerska Street 8/10; or
- using means of electronic communication to the dedicated e-mail addresswalne_zgromadzenie@agora.pl.
A shareholder shall evidence the holding of an appropriate number of shares as at the date of submitting such a request, by enclosing a registered certificate of deposit or registered certificate of eligibility to participate in the Company's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, and:
a. in case of shareholders being individuals - the request shall be accompanied by a copy of a document evidencing identity of a shareholder (if the request is submitted via email),
b. in case of shareholders being legal persons and private companies- the request shall be accompanied by the authorization to act on behalf of such an entity by enclosing an excerpt from the Court Register or other appropriate register,
c. in case of request submitted by a proxy it shall be accompanied, apart from documents specified in (a) or (b), by a power of attorney to file such a request (or an uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney), signed by a shareholder and copy of document evidencing identity of the proxy, and if the proxy is not an individual - copy of excerpt from the appropriate register, confirming authorization of the person acting in the name of such a person or company.
Furthermore, any shareholder eligible to participate in the General Meeting may, in course of the General Meeting, submit draft resolutions relating to the matters introduced into the agenda of the General Meeting.
VI. Communication of shareholder with Agora S.A.
In accordance with the Commercial Companies Code shareholders may contact with the Company by electronic means of communication in the manner specified in this announcement.
Communication shall be carried out through a dedicated e-mail address walne_zgromadzenie@agora.pl.
All risk associated with the use of electronic means of communication with Agora S.A. is borne by a shareholder. The moment of delivery of documents to the dedicated e-mail address on the Company's servers shall be decisive in judging whether the documents were submitted in due time by electronic means of communication.
Together with the documents sent by a shareholder via e-mail, documents prepared in a language other than Polish, shall be translated into the Polish language by a certified translator.
All documents sent by a shareholder to the Company, and by the Company to a shareholder, via e-mail require conversion into the PDF format.
In case of submitting the documentation to the Company's registered seat in Warsaw at Czerska Street 8/10, the date of their delivery to the Company shall be decisive.
VII. The right to participate in the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
The shareholders shall be able to participate in the Meeting after verification of their identity, and proxies:
a. in case of power of attorney in a written form - after verification of (i) an identity card (in case of an individual person) or an original or a confirmed copy by a notary public or other authorized entity to confirm that a copy of an excerpt from the Court Register or other appropriate register is a true and correct copy of that excerpt or other document confirming authorization of an individual person(s) to represent a shareholder during the General Meeting (in case when proxy is not an individual person), or (ii) original of the proxy granted in a written form or its confirmed copy by a notary public or other authorized entity to confirm that a copy of the proxy is a true and correct copy of the original,
b. in case of power of attorney granted electronically - after verification of an identity card (in case of a proxy being an individual person) or original or confirmed copy of an excerpt from the Court Register or other appropriate register by a notary public or other authorized entity to confirm that a copy of an excerpt from the Court Register or other register is a true and correct copy of that register or other document confirming authorization of an individual person(s) to represent a shareholder during the General Meeting (in case when proxy is not an individual person).
The representatives of legal entities or private companies shall additionally present original documents from the Court Register or their copies confirmed by a notary public or other authorized entity to confirm that such documents are true and original copies enumerating authorized persons to represent given entity and originals or confirmed copies by a notary public or other authorized entity confirming authorization of an individual person(s) to represent a shareholder during an Annual General Meeting (f.ex. uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney).
Proxies and other necessary documents confirming eligibility of a shareholder or his proxy to participate in the General Meeting shall be included in the book of protocols. All shareholders are requested to take their identity cards for the verification purposes during registration process before the opening of the General Meeting.
VIII. The way of exercising voting rights by a proxy
A shareholder may participate in the General Meeting and exercise voting rights either personally or acting through one or more proxies.
The power of attorney to vote by a proxy shall be issued in writing or electronically.
The templates of the forms used for exercising voting rights by a proxy are available at the Company's webpage www.agora.pl , in the section For investors/General Meeting of Shareholders.
A shareholder is obliged to send the Company a notification of having issued a power of attorney using electronic means of communication to the following e-mail address walne_zgromadzenie@agora.pl, no later than one day prior to the Meeting (i.e. June 21, 2012 till 3:30 p.m). The information should be accompanied by the scan copy of the power of attorney on the template provided by the Company (or prepared by a shareholder but containing at least the scope of information specified in the provided template) and:
a. in case of a shareholder being an individual - a copy of the document stating the identity of a shareholder,
b. in case of shareholders being legal persons or private companies - a copy of an actual excerpt from the appropriate register, confirming authorization of the person to act on behalf of a shareholder or other document confirming authorization of an individual person(s) to represent a shareholder during the General Meeting (f.ex. uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney).
In case of granting further proxies, the proxy holder should present to the Company uninterrupted sequence of powers of attorney accompanied by documents confirming authorization of a proxy to act on behalf of previous proxies.
Agora S.A. will undertake appropriate actions aiming at identification of a shareholder and proxy to verify validity and correctness of the proxy granted by electronic means of communication.
The procedure shall include, but will not be limited to sending a return question to a shareholder or/and proxy or calling him back to confirm granting of the proxy and its scope. The Company underlines that lack of answer to a question sent by the Company to a shareholder or a proxy shall be considered as lack of possibility of verification of a granted proxy and will constitute the basis to refuse participation of a proxy in the General Meeting.
The above described rules concerning granting the proxy shall apply to cancelling the proxy granted by electronic means of communication.
IX. Possibility and manner of participating in the General Meeting by electronic means of communication
The Company does not provide the possibility to participate in the General Meeting by electronic means of communication.
Simultaneously, we inform that the course of the Meeting shall be transmitted on the Company's website www.agora.pl in the section For investors/General Meeting.
X. Manner of exercising voting rights by correspondence or by electronic means of communication
The Company does not provide the possibility to exercise voting rights during the General Meeting by correspondence or by electronic means of communication.
XI. Access to necessary documentation
Persons eligible to participate in the General Meeting may obtain full documentation to be presented at the General Meeting and draft resolutions at the Company's registered seat in Warsaw, at Czerska Street 8/10, or on the Company's web page: www.agora.pl in the section For Investors/ General Meeting.
The Company will make all information relating to the General Meeting available at its web page www.agora.pl in the section For investor/General Meeting.
XII. Additional information
The information covered in this announcement is governed by the Commercial Companies Code. The text of this announcement does not infringe detailed regulations limiting exercising rights by shareholders.
In order to start the General Meeting on time the registration of shareholders shall start 45 minutes prior to the opening of the General Meeting.