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Shareholder Rights Directive 2007

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The Shareholder Rights Directive 2007/36/EC sets out minimum requirements relating to the holding of meetings in the EU, where it is shareholders holding shares in companies on a regulated market.

It replaced the First Company Law Directive 68/151/EEC.

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  • art 5, shareholders should be given 21 days notice of meetings, votes by electronic means should be facilitated
  • art 6, that a threshold no higher than 5% of shareholders must be able to table resolutions at meetings
  • art 9, to ask questions
  • art 10, to vote by proxy
  • art 14, voting results publishable on website

    • References

    Shareholder Rights Directive 2007 Wikipedia
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