Right to attend General Meetings Clause Samples

Right to attend General Meetings. The annual General Meeting is held at the place determined in the notice convening the meeting. It is held every year on the second Wednesday of May at 15:30 (Central European Time, GMT+1). If this date is a public holiday in Belgium, the meeting is held the next business day at the same time. The Board of directors and the company's statutory auditor submit their respective annual report at the annual General Meeting which then discusses the annual accounts. Before approving the annual accounts and the proposed allocation of the company's profit or loss, the General Meeting must vote on the release from liability of the directors and the statutory auditor. When applicable, the annual General Meeting also votes on the (re-) appointment or dismissal of the statutory auditor and/or of all or certain directors and on all remuneration issues falling within its remit. The annual General Meeting shall also approve by a separate vote the remuneration report to be included in the annual report. The Board of directors or the statutory auditor may, whenever the interest of the company so requires, convene a special or extraordinary General Meeting. Such General Meeting must also be convened every time one or more shareholders holding shares representing at least 5 per cent. of the Issuer's share capital so request. Shareholders holding at least 3 per cent. of the Issuer's share capital are entitled to request that one or more items be put on the agenda of a General Meeting already convened and to make proposal of resolutions with respect to items already existing or to be put on the agenda. The notice convening the General Meeting must state the place, date and hour of the meeting and must include an agenda indicating the items to be discussed as well as any motions for resolutions. The notice must be published at least 30 days prior to the meeting in the Belgian Official Gazette (Moniteur Belge / Belgisch Staatsblad), in a nation-wide newspaper as well as in media that can reasonably be relied upon for the dissemination of information within the EEA. The convening notice must in addition be sent by ordinary mail to the holders of registered shares or registered bonds. The annual financial statements, the annual report of the board of directors and the annual report of the statutory auditor must be made available to the public at the company's registered office from the date of the convening notice. The company must also publish on its website various information in...
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  • NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS At least seven clear days’ notice in writing counting from the date service is deemed to take place as provided in these Articles specifying the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business, shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided or in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by the Company by Ordinary Resolution to such Persons as are, under these Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company, but with the consent of all the Shareholders entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting and attend and vote thereat, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice or without notice and in such manner as those Shareholders may think fit.

  • GENERAL MEETINGS The Academy Trust shall hold an Annual General Meeting each year in addition to any other meetings in that year, and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it; and not more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one Annual General Meeting of the Academy Trust and that of the next. Provided that so long as the Academy Trust holds its first Annual General Meeting within eighteen months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year. The Annual General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Governors shall appoint. All meetings other than Annual General Meetings shall be called General Meetings.

  • Right to Convene Meetings The Warrant Agent may at any time and from time to time, and shall on receipt of a written request of the Corporation or of a Warrantholders’ Request and upon being indemnified and funded to its reasonable satisfaction by the Corporation or by the Warrantholders signing such Warrantholders’ Request against the costs which may be incurred in connection with the calling and holding of such meeting, convene a meeting of the Warrantholders. If the Warrant Agent fails to so call a meeting within seven days after receipt of such written request of the Corporation or such Warrantholders’ Request and the indemnity and funding given as aforesaid, the Corporation or such Warrantholders, as the case may be, may convene such meeting. Every such meeting shall be held in the City of Toronto or at such other place as may be mutually approved or determined by the Warrant Agent and the Corporation.

  • PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present. A Member counts towards the quorum by being present either in person or by proxy. Two persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted, each being a Member or a proxy of a Member or a duly authorised representative of a Member organisation shall constitute a quorum.

  • Attendance at Meetings Any employee required to attend Occupational Health and Safety Committee and/or Board of Management meetings in the capacity of employee representative shall, if such meetings are held outside the ordinary hours of work, be entitled to receive ordinary pay per hour for the actual time spent in attendance at such meetings. In lieu of receiving payment, employees may, with the agreement of the employer, be permitted to be free from duty for a period of time equivalent to the period spent in attendance at such meetings. Such time spent shall not be viewed as overtime for the purposes of this Agreement.