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The week started with general shareholders meetings in Romania and Austria and continues with Poland. There are interesting items on the agenda, many of the referring to a refresh of the composition of the members of the board. How important is gender balance for listed companies? How important is gender balance for institutional investors voting in portfolio companies?

During this week there are 5 general meetings (GMs) called for companies covered by Valgreen SRL: - 29 January: ordinary GM called by Transelectrica (#TEL), listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), having only a presentation on the agenda. The GM took place in Bucharest and the company did not provide webcasting or electronic voting - 29 January: extraordinary GM called by S IMMO AG (#SPI) listed on Vienna Stock Exchange for new material changes at the level of the board. The GM took place in Vienna, Austria and the company did not provide webcasting or electronic voting - 31 January: extraordinary GM called by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (#PGE) listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange for changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board. The GM takes place in Warsaw, Poland and the GM is webcasted - 1 February: annual GM called by EVN AG (#EVN), listed on Vienna Stock Exchange. The GM takes place in Enzersdorf, Austria and the company did not provide webcasting or electronic voting - 2 February: extraordinary GM called by PKO Bank Polski (#PKO) listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange for changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board. The GM takes place in Warsaw, Poland and the GM is webcasted   Institutional investors need to prepare their documentation for voting for next weeks GMs for 2 companies listed on BSE: - 8 February: ordinary GM called by GRUP SERBAN HOLDING S.A. (#GSH) for extending the mandates of two members of the board. The GM takes place in Filipesti, Romania and the company does not provide webcasting or electronic voting - 13 February: extraordinary GM called by Fondul Proprietatea SA (#FP) for the approval of a new buy-back programme and for an authorization to sell several important portfolios companies. The GM takes place in Bucharest and the company does provide electronic voting with the support of eVOTE | Governance Partners Valgreen issued the proxy voting reports for all GMs above. Several companies called new GMs for the next weeks (Valgreen SRL has the proxy advisory reports under preparation): - 6 February: extraordinary GM called by ORLEN S.A. (#PKN) listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange - 15 February: extraordinary GM called by AQUILA Romania (#AQ) listed on BSE - 21 February: ordinary GM called by TRANSGAZ SA (#TGN) listed on BSE - 23 February: annual GM called by Infineon Technologies Ag (#IFX) listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange - 26 February: annual GM called by Siemens Energy AG (#ENR) listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange - 28 February: GMs called by CONPET S.A. (#COTE), Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (#SNN), Transelectrica (#TEL), and Hidroelectrica SA (#H2O) listed on BSE - 29 February: GMs called by ANTIBIOTICE SA (#ATB) listed on BSE - 6 March: ordinary GMs called by TRANSGAZ SA (#TGN) listed on BSE Many companies announced the date of the annual GM and the list of GMs to be covered by Valgreen is published on https://www.valgreen.ro/. #proxyreports #GM #proxyvoting #valgreen

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This week is a short one for Romanian market: there are two holidays on 1 and 3 May. However, there are 19 shareholders’ general meetings (GM) for companies covered by Valgreen: - 29 April: ordinary and extraordinary GMs called by INFINITY CAPITAL INVESTMENTS (#INFINITY) – the GMs take place in Craiova starting with 9.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 29 April: ordinary GM called by Transelectrica (#TEL) – the GM takes place in Bucharest starting with 10.00am - 29 April: ordinary and extraordinary GMs called by Evergent Investments (#EVER) – the GMs take place in Bacau starting with 10.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 29 April: ordinary GMs called by MedLife SA (#M) – the GM takes place in Bucharest starting with 10.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 29 April: ordinary and extraordinary GMs called by AQUILA Romania (#AQ) – the GMs take place in Ploiesti starting with 11.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 29 April: ordinary GM called by Hidroelectrica SA (#H2O) – the GM takes place in Bucharest starting with 12.00pm and there is electronic voting with webcasting facility - 29 April: ordinary GM called by 2B INTELLIGENT SOFT (#BENTO) – the GM takes place in Bucharest starting with 5.00pm and there is electronic voting with webcasting facility - 29 April: ordinary and extraordinary GMs called by HOLDE AGRI INVEST (#HAI) – the GMs take place in Bucharest starting with 6.00pm and there is electronic voting with webcasting facility - 30 April: AGM called by PORR Group (#POS) – the GM takes place in Vienna starting with 9.00am (CET) - 30 April: ordinary GM called by TTS (Transport Trade Services) S.A. (#TTS) – the GM takes place in Bucharest starting with 10.00am and there is electronic voting with webcasting facility - 30 April: ordinary GM called by GRUP SERBAN HOLDING (#GSH) – the GM takes place in Filipesti (Bogdanesti) starting with 10.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 30 April: ordinary and extraordinary GMs called by Fondul Proprietatea (#FP) – the GMs take place in Bucharest starting with 11.00am and there is no webcasting offered - 30 April: AGM called by Commerzbank AG (#CBK) – the GM is virtual and starts at 10.00am (CET) - 30 April: AGM called by Hapag-Lloyd AG (#HLAG) – the GM is virtual and starts at 10.30am (CET) - 30 April: AGM called by VERBUND AG (#VER) – the GM takes place in Vienna starting with 10.30am (CET) - 1 May: AGM called by Unilever (#ULVR) – the GM takes place in London starting with 11.30am (BST) and it is webcasted - 2 May: AGM called by CA IMMOBILIEN ANLAGEN AG (#CAI) – the GM takes place in Vienna starting with 11.00am (CET) - 3 May: AGM called by Deutsche Post AG (#DHL) – the GM takes place in Bonn starting with 10.00am (CET) - 3 May: AGM called by S IMMO AG (#SPI) – the GM takes place in Vienna starting with 10.30am (CET) and there is virtual attending facility For more GMs covered by us please see https://www.valgreen.ro/. #proxyreports #GM #proxyvoting #valgreen

Each market has its particularities: in Germany there is a tendency to have more virtual general meetings and the trend is criticized, especially by individual investors that do not have other events to join for discussing with the management and with members of the boards. In Romania there are many general meetings taking place in same time in different places (cities) without webcasting offered. There is room for improvement and investors are expecting listed companies to adapt the dates and times in order to give them the opportunity to join the meetings, in-person or remotely. However, shareholder engagement is covered better by listed companies comparing with last years.

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