General Meeting of Shareholders
The General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (hereinafter — the Meeting) is the top governance body of the Company, which ensures the exercise of shareholders’ rights to manage the Company, and makes decisions on the most important, key, strategic matters of its activity.
The Regulations on the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company determine the procedure for holding it and the main organisational matters related to the arrangement of the Meetings. Shareholders are given the opportunity to ask questions on the agenda of the Meeting through the Secretary of the Meeting. Questions may be addressed to members of the governance and control bodies, the chief accountant and auditor of the Company, who are required to be invited to the Meeting. For other questions received from shareholders during the Meeting, the Company provides a response within 30 days from the date of the Meeting.
The Company’s shareholders have access to a forum and a dedicated email address that allow them to submit questions about the Meeting.
In order to improve the validity of decisions made by the Meeting, the Regulations on the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company define a list of additional documents that the Company undertakes to provide to shareholders. The materials provided include the position of the Board of Directors regarding the agenda of the Meeting, extra data about candidates for governance and control bodies, comparative tables of amendments made to the Articles of Association and internal documents of the Company. All materials are posted on the Company’s website in Russian and, if necessary, in English, no later than 30 days before the Meeting.