Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders Meeting opens in St. Petersburg

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June 28, 2019, 10:20

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Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders Meeting opened today in St. Petersburg. Shareholders from Russia and a number of foreign countries are taking part in the Meeting in person, via their representatives, and in absentia. As of June 3, 2019, the list of persons eligible to take part in the Shareholders Meeting included 472,162 accounts with a total of 23,468,757,524 shares.

The Gazprom Board of Directors resolved to approve Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, Russia’s Special Presidential Representative for Cooperation with the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, as Chairman of the Meeting. The Meeting is also attended by the Members of the Gazprom Board of Directors: Alexey Miller, Andrey Akimov, Timur Kulibaev, Vitaly Markelov, Viktor Martynov, Vladimir Mau, Dmitry Patrushev, and Mikhail Sereda.

The agenda of the Meeting consists of the following items:

on the approval of the Company’s Annual Report;
on the approval of the Company’s Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements;
on the approval of the distribution of the Company’s profit based on the results of 2018;
on the amount, period and form of the dividend payout based on the results of 2018, 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 Members, who are not government officials, in the amount established by the Company’s regulatory documents;
on the remuneration for the Audit Commission Members, who are not government officials, in the amount established by the Company’s regulatory documents;
on the amendments to Gazprom’s Articles of Association;
on the amendments to Gazprom’s Regulation on the General Shareholders Meeting;
on the amendments to Gazprom’s Regulation on the Board of Directors;
on the amendments to Gazprom’s Regulation on the Management Committee;
on the revocation of the Gazprom Dividend Payment Procedure;
on the election of the Company’s Board of Directors Members;
on the election of the Company’s Audit Commission Members.