The annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom has started in Moscow today, it was announced by Gazprom on June 30, 2016.
Shareholders from Russia and a number of foreign countries are taking part in the Meeting personally, through their trustees or in absentia. As of May 11, 2016, the list of persons entitled to participate in the Shareholders Meeting included 461,678 corporate equity owners with 23,673,512,900 shares.
Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors and Special Presidential Representative for Cooperation with the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, has been appointed Chairman of the Shareholders Meeting by decision of the Gazprom Board of Directors. Taking part in the Meeting are the following Members of the Gazprom Board of Directors: Alexey Miller, Andrey Akimov, Farit Gazizullin, Timur Kulibaev, Vitaly Markelov, Viktor Martynov, Vladimir Mau, Alexander Novak, and Mikhail Sereda.
The following items are on the Meeting agenda:
on the approval of the Company's Annual Report;
on the approval of the Company's Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements, including the Report on the Company's Financial Results;
on the approval of the distribution of the Company's profit based on the results of 2015;
on the amount, period and form of the dividend payout based on the results of 2015, as well as on the date when a list of persons entitled to receive dividends is drawn up;
on the approval of the Company's Auditor;
on the remuneration for the Board of Directors (Supervisory Board) Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;
on the remuneration for the Audit Commission Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;
on the amendments to Gazprom's Articles of Association;
on the approval of the Company's updated Regulation on General Shareholders Meeting;
on the approval of the Company's updated Regulation on the Board of Directors;
on the approval of the Company's updated Regulation on the Management Committee;
on the approval of the Company's updated Regulation on the Management Committee Chairman;
on the ratification of related-party transactions to be potentially executed by Gazprom while carrying on its usual business;
on the election of the Board of Directors Members; and
on the election of the Audit Commission Members.
Alexey Miller is now delivering his speech on the Company's 2015 operating results.
