The deadline for the submission of voting ballots is June 26, 2025.
Time period to be observed and methods to be used for the submission of voting ballots.
Only the votes represented by voting ballots and declarations of intention that are received before 06:00 pm (Moscow time) on June 26, 2025, are to be taken into account to determine whether the quorum of the absentee voting is present and to count the voting results.
Starting from June 6, 2025, shareholders will be able to use the option of filling out electronic ballots at the elgol.draga.ru website. The filled-out ballots in hard copy can be sent by mail to the address: Gazprom, BOX 1255, St. Petersburg, 200961, or delivered in person to the address: 2/3 Lakhtinsky Avenue, Bldg. 1, St. Petersburg.
The Board of Directors approved the agenda of the absentee voting as follows:
- approval of the Company’s Annual Report;
- approval of the Company’s Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements;
- approval of the distribution of the Company’s profit based on the results of 2024;
- on the amount, period and form of the dividend payout based on the results of 2024, as well as on the date when the list of persons entitled to receive dividends is drawn up;
- appointment of the Company’s Auditor;
- on the remuneration for the Board of Directors 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 approval of the amended Articles of Association of Gazprom;
- on the early termination of membership in the Company’s Board of Directors;
- election of the Company’s Board of Directors Members;
- election of the Company’s Audit Commission Members.
The Board of Directors approved and submitted to the Shareholders Meeting for consideration the draft of the amended Articles of Association of Gazprom. The amendments to the Articles of Association had been made mainly to reflect the changes in the Federal Law on Joint Stock Companies.
The Board of Directors provisionally endorsed the 2024 Annual Report of the Company and the 2024 Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements of Gazprom prepared in accordance with the Russian legislation.
The Board of Directors recommended that the Shareholders Meeting approve the following proposed solutions: not to distribute Gazprom’s profit based on the results of 2024, not to declare and not pay out dividends on Gazprom’s shares.
The Board of Directors nominated FBK for appointment as the Company’s Auditor by the General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom. FBK had been selected for said nomination on the basis of the results of an open tender.
The Board of Directors also adopted decisions on other issues with regard to the arrangement and holding of the absentee voting for decision-making by the General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom.
