Notice of Annual General Meeting of Saab AB.
ENPNewswire-March 11, 2021--Notice of Annual General Meeting of Saab AB
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Release date- 10032021 - The shareholders of Saab Aktiebolag (reg. no. 556036-0793) are given notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held on Tuesday 13 April 2021 at 15:00 CET.
Due to the coronavirus and in order to reduce the risk of spreading the disease, the Board of Directors has decided that the Meeting should be conducted through electronic connection with the shareholders in accordance with the temporary law applicable in 2021. This means that the Annual General Meeting should be conducted without the physical presence of shareholders, representatives or third parties. The shareholders can exercise their voting rights at the Annual General Meeting only by participating online or by postal voting as instructed below.
RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AND NOTIFICATION
Shareholders who intend to participate online in the Annual General Meeting must:
be recorded in the share register issued by Euroclear Sweden AB as of Thursday 1 April 2021, and
give notice of their participation no later than Wednesday 7 April 2021
by telephone +46 13 18 20 55 (weekdays 09:00 - 17:00 (CET)),
by post to Saab AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden,
by e-mail to GeneralMeetingService@euroclear.com, or
via the company's website: www.saab.com/agm.
Shareholders who intend to participate in the Annual General Meeting by postal voting must:
be recorded in the share register issued by Euroclear Sweden AB as of Thursday 1 April 2021, and
no later than Monday 12 April 2021 give notice of their participation by submitting their postal votes in accordance with the instructions in the 'Postal voting' section below so that the postal vote is received by Euroclear Sweden AB no later than that day.
Shareholders whose shares are registered in the name of a nominee must temporarily be listed in the share register in their own names (so-called voting rights registration) in order to be entitled to participate in the Meeting after giving notice of participation. Such registration shall be requested to the nominee, in accordance with the nominee's routines, at such a time in advance as decided by the nominee. Voting rights registrations that have been made by the nominee no later than 7 April 2021 will be taken into account in the presentation of the share register.
In order to enable the Annual General Meeting to be held online, the Board of Directors has, in accordance with the temporary law applicable in 2021, decided that also persons who are not shareholders can follow the discussions at the Annual General Meeting.
Shareholders giving notice of participating online can still choose to vote by post.
Shareholders who do not wish to vote or ask questions online, will have the opportunity to follow the Meeting via the company's website, www.saab.com/agm. Notice of participation is not required to solely be able to follow the Meeting via the website.
The Annual General Meeting will be held in Swedish with English subtitles.
ONLINE PARTICIPATION AND VOTING
Shareholders who intend to participate online must give notice no later than Wednesday 7 April 2021 as instructed above. Notification must include the shareholder's name, personal- or corporate identification number and telephone number, and possible assistants. Shareholders who wish to be represented by proxy online must notify this within the same time and in the same manner as stated above and send power of attorney in the original to Saab AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden. Proxy forms are provided by the company upon request and are also available on the company's website www.saab.com/agm. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a registration certificate or other supporting document which shows the authorized signatory, shall be sent to the address stated above.
Login instructions and further instructions for participation online will be sent to shareholders and representatives that have given notice of participation online. The instructions for participation online are also available at the company's website www.saab.com/agm. The instructions will be distributed on an ongoing basis, as shareholders give notice of participation, to the address listed in the share register or the address of the representative stated in the notice of participation. Shareholders who are natural persons may - by registering via the company's website www.saab.com/agm, verifying their identity through BankID and stating their e-mail address - choose to receive the instructions by e-mail. On the day of the Annual General Meeting, login can take place no earlier than 14:30 CET and must have taken place no later than 15:00 CET. Login for online participation cannot take place after 15:00 CET. The online participation is administrated by Euroclear Sweden AB and its subcontractor Lumi. To participate in the Annual General Meeting the participant shall on the day of the Annual General Meeting go to Lumi's website https://web.lumiagm.com and enter 128-883-090 as meeting ID and the unique username and password that have been distributed to those who have given notice of participation.
For online participants, the following rules apply (which the participant accepts by choosing to participate online).
It will be possible to ask questions online during the Annual General Meeting via a chat service.
In order to participate and vote online, a steady network connection is required throughout the Annual General Meeting, and it is the shareholder's or proxy's own responsibility to ensure a steady network connection. It is possible to participate online through a computer, a smartphone or another internet connected device. Saab has carefully prepared to enable participation and voting online. However, it cannot be ruled out that any technical complication entails functional deficiencies. Therefore, it is important to note that a shareholder who wants to be certain of being able to vote should choose to vote by post.
A shareholder who has given notice of participation online in the Annual General Meeting has the opportunity to vote by post according to the instructions under the 'Postal voting' section below and still participate in the Annual General Meeting online, for example to be able to ask questions. If a shareholder who has voted by post chooses to participate online, the postal vote will still be valid, provided that the shareholder does not participate in an online voting during the Meeting. If the shareholder would choose to participate in an online voting during the Meeting, the vote cast online will replace the previously submitted postal vote with regard to the relevant decision(s).
POSTAL VOTING
Shareholders may exercise their voting rights at the Meeting by voting in advance, so called postal voting. A special form shall be used for postal voting. The form is available at the company's website www.saab.com/agm. In case of postal voting only, no separate notification of participation in the Annual General Meeting is required.
The completed and signed form must be received by Euroclear Sweden AB no later than Monday 12 April 2021.The completed and signed form must be sent by post to Saab AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden or by e-mail to GeneralMeetingService@euroclear.com. Shareholders who are natural persons may also submit their postal votes electronically through verification with BankID via Euroclear Sweden AB's website https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy/. Such electronic votes must be submitted no later than Monday 12 April 2021.
If the shareholder submits its postal vote by proxy, the power of attorney shall be enclosed to the form. Proxy forms are provided by the company upon request and are also available on the company's website www.saab.com/agm. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a registration certificate or other supporting document which shows the authorized signatory, shall also be enclosed to the form.
The shareholder may not provide specific instructions or conditions to the postal vote. If so, the vote (i.e. the postal vote in its entirety) is invalid. Further instructions and conditions are included in the form for postal voting and at https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy/.
QUESTIONS AND SHAREHOLDERS' RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION
The Board of Directors and the CEO shall, if any shareholder so requests and the Board of Directors believes that it can be done without material harm to the company, provide information regarding circumstances that may affect the assessment of an item on the agenda, circumstances that may affect the assessment of the company's or its subsidiaries' financial situation and the company's relation to other companies within the Group. Shareholders participating online may ask questions at the Meeting through a chat service and may also submit questions in advance by e-mail to agm@saabgroup.com, for their questions to be answered at the Annual General Meeting. A moderator will sort and categorize questions asked to facilitate for the Chairman of the Meeting and to avoid repetitions.
In addition, requests for information can be made by post to Saab AB, AGM 2021, Box 7808, SE-103 96 Stockholm, Sweden, or by e-mail to agm@saabgroup.com, no later than 3 April 2021. The information is in such case provided by being kept available at Saab's head office on Olof Palmes Gata 17, Stockholm, Sweden, and at the company's website www.saab.com/agm, no later than 8 April 2021. The information is also sent within the same time to the shareholder who has requested it and stated its address.
AGENDA
Election of Chairman of the Meeting
Election of persons to verify the Minutes
Approval of the Voting list
Approval of the Agenda
Question as to whether the Meeting has been duly convened
Presentation of the Annual Report and the Auditor's report, the Consolidated Annual...
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