Results of meetings and consideration of the interests of minority shareholders

In the reporting year, on all agenda items that were not related to the election of members of the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission of the Company and, accordingly, did not provide for roll call or cumulative voting, considered by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 30 June 2023, the number of positive votes exceeded 99%. The matters of dividend payment (0.6695%), as well as remuneration to the members of the Board of Directors (0.0072%) and the members of the Revision Commission (0.0087%) received the highest number of negative votes. That being said, the matters of payment of remuneration in companies with state participation are regulated by regulatory acts of the Government of the Russian Federation and federal executive authorities. The Company ensures compliance with the requirements of the acts above in strict accordance with established principles.

On the agenda items considered by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on 14 September 2022, the total number of ‘against’ and ‘abstained’ votes did not exceed 0.6711% of the number of votes belonging to the Meeting attendees.

In general, the proportion of votes ‘against’ and ‘abstained’ on matters considered by the General Meeting of Shareholders in 2023 was significantly lower than in previous years.