Veolia: Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, April 25, 2024
2024年4月26日 - 2:23AM
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Regulatory News:
The Combined General Meeting of Veolia Environnement
(Paris:VIE) shareholders, held today at the Maison de la
Mutualité in Paris, under the chairmanship of its Chairman of the
Board of Directors, Mr. Antoine Frérot, approved all of the
resolutions submitted to it with a quorum 70.84%.
These resolutions relate in particular on:
- the approval of the parent company financial statements and
group consolidated financial statements for fiscal year
2023;
- the setting of the dividend in cash for the fiscal year
ended on December 31, 2023 at €1.25 per share. The shares
will be traded ex-dividend as of May 8, 2024 and payable from
May 10, 2024;
- the renewal of the terms of office as Directors of Mrs.
Isabelle Courville and Mr. Guillaume Texier, and the
appointment of Mrs. Julia Marton-Lefèvre as Director for a
four-year period which will expire at the end of the General
Shareholders’ Meeting that will be called to approve the financial
statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2027;
- the appointment of the companies KPMG SA and Ernst &
Young et Autres as statutory auditors for the certification of
sustainability information: with regard to the company KPMG SA,
for a period of one year, which will end after the General
Shareholders’ Meeting called upon to decide on the accounts for the
fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, and with regard to the
company Ernst & Young et Autres, for a period of five years,
which will end after the General Shareholders’ Meeting called upon
to decide on the accounts for the fiscal year ending December 31,
2028;
- the compensation paid during fiscal year 2023 or awarded in
respect of the same fiscal year to Mr. Antoine Frérot, Chairman
of the Board of Directors and Mrs. Estelle Brachlianoff, Chief
Executive Officer;
- the information relating to the 2023 compensation of the
Directors (excluding the Chairman of the Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer);
- the compensation policy in respect of fiscal year 2024
of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer
and Directors;
- the renewal of all the financial authorizations granted
to the Board of Directors to increase the share capital by issuing
shares and/or securities, and in particular those in the frame of
the implementation of employee share ownership plans;
- the authorization granted to the Board of Directors
to grant shares to corporate officers and employees of the Group
and corporate officers of the Company.
- the amendment of the Company’s Articles of Association to
introduce a double statutory mechanism: (i) the abolition of
double voting rights; and (ii) the automatic limitation to 10% of
the voting rights of any shareholder who comes to hold, alone or in
concert, a fraction of the capital exceeding 10%.
After this combined general meeting, the Board of
Directors of Veolia Environnement is made up of fourteen
Directors, including approximately 73% independent Directors
(excluding the two Directors representing employees and the
Director representing employee shareholders) and 54.5%1 women, and
one non voting member (censeur):
- Mr. Antoine Frérot, Chairman of the Board of Directors;
- Mrs. Estelle Brachlianoff, Chief Executive Officer;
- Mr. Pierre-André de Chalendar*, Senior Independent
Director;
- Mr. Olivier Andriès*;
- Mrs. Maryse Aulagnon;
- Mrs. Véronique Bédague*;
- Mr. Pierre-André de Chalendar*;
- Mrs. Isabelle Courville*;
- Mrs. Marion Guillou*;
- Mr. Franck Le Roux, Director representing employees;
- Mrs. Julia Marton-Lefèvre*;
- Mrs. Agata Mazurek-Bąk, Director representing employee
shareholders;
- Mr. Pavel Páša, Director representing employees;
- Mr. Francisco Reynès*;
- Mr. Guillaume Texier*;
- Mr. Enric Amiguet y Rovira, non voting member (censeur).
* Independent member
The Board of Directors has decided on the composition
of its committees as follows:
- Accounts and Audit Committee: Mr. Guillaume Texier
(Chairman), Mr. Olivier Andriès, Mrs. Véronique Bédague, Mr. Franck
Le Roux (Director representing employees) and Mrs. Agata
Mazurek-Bąk (Director representing employee shareholders).
- Nominations Committee: Mr. Pierre-André de Chalendar
(Chairman), Mrs. Maryse Aulagnon, Mrs. Isabelle Courville and Mr.
Antoine Frérot.
- Compensation Committee: Mr. Olivier Andriès (Chairman),
Mrs. Maryse Aulagnon, Mr. Pierre-André de Chalendar, Mrs. Marion
Guillou, Mr. Franck Le Roux (Director representing employees) and
Mr. Francisco Reynés.
- Research, Innovation and Sustainable Development
Committee: Mrs. Isabelle Courville (Chairwoman), Mrs. Marion
Guillou, Mrs. Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Mr. Pavel Páša (Director
representing employees) and Mr. Guillaume Texier. Mr. Enric Amiguet
y Rovira is invited to attend all meetings of this committee.
- Purpose of the Company Committee: Mr. Antoine Frérot
(Chairman), Mr. Olivier Andriès, Mr. Pierre-André de Chalendar,
Mrs. Isabelle Courville, Mr. Franck Le Roux (Director representing
employees) and Mr. Guillaume Texier.
Furthermore, the Board of Directors has reaffirmed its
willingness to pursue its policy of shareholder dialogue and
engagement initiated several years ago.
See https://www.veolia.com/en/veolia-group/finance/shareholders
for the results of voting on the resolutions and a full webcast of
the Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting.
ABOUT VEOLIA
Veolia's ambition is to become the benchmark company for
ecological transformation. With nearly 218,000 employees on five
continents, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical
solutions for managing water, waste and energy that help to
radically change the world. Through its three complementary
activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to resources,
preserving available resources and renewing them. In 2023, the
Veolia group served 113 million people with drinking water and 103
million with wastewater services, produced 42 terawatt-hours of
energy and recovered 63 million metric tons of waste. Veolia
Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) generated consolidated sales of
€45.3 billion in 2023. www.veolia.com
1 Excluding the Directors representing employees and the
Director representing employee shareholders in accordance with
Articles L. 225-27-1 and L. 22-10-7 of the French Commercial
Code.
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Veolia Environnement (EU:VIE)
過去 株価チャート
から 4 2024 まで 5 2024
Veolia Environnement (EU:VIE)
過去 株価チャート
から 5 2023 まで 5 2024
