EDF 2020 Shareholders General Meeting: all the resolutions were adopted
07 Mai 2020 - 6:22PM
EDF 2020 Shareholders General Meeting: all the resolutions were
adopted
EDF 2020 SHAREHOLDERS GENERAL MEETING
:ALL THE RESOLUTIONS WERE ADOPTEDOn the
occasion of the EDF 2020 Shareholder General Meeting that was held
today at the company’s headquarters under the chairmanship of
Jean-Bernard Lévy with a 91,96% quorum of represented shareholders,
all submitted resolutions were adopted. Owing to the Covid-19
epidemic and the health measures set in place by the government,
the meeting took place without the shareholders attending in person
and was telecast live through an audio link. Shareholders were
given the opportunity to ask questions which were answered during
the meeting.Pursuant to what was proposed by the Board of Directors
in order to meet the commitments of solidarity and accountability
towards all of the company’s stakeholders in view of the current
crisis, the General Meeting of Shareholders agreed that no dividend
would be paid out for the financial year ended on 31 December 2019
other than the 2019 interim dividend amounting to 0.15 Euros. It
was also agreed that the amount of the 2019 interim dividend would
not be increased by the loyalty dividend.
In addition, the General Meeting of Shareholders
formally adopted the company’s raison d’être, which reads as
follows: Our raison d’être is to build a net zero energy future
with electricity and innovative solutions and services, to help
save the planet and drive wellbeing and economic development.
Last but not least, the Shareholders General
Meeting renewed the term of office as a Director of Claire Pedini
and ratified the appointment of Véronique Bédague-Hamilius and
François Delattre. The EDF Board of Directors includes eight women,
two of which were elected by the workforce, tantamount to a 50%
proportion of women measured against the Board members that were
factored into the establishment of this percentage (excluding board
members representing the workforce) and 44.44% of the entire
Board.
A full breakdown of the votes, all presentations
and the audio broadcast of the mixed General Meeting are available
on the EDF website at www.edf.fr/agmThe biographies of all Board
members are posted at the following
address: https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/who-we-are/governance/board-of-directors
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authenticity can be checked on medias.edf.com
A key player in energy transition, the EDF Group is an integrated
electricity company, active in all areas of the business:
genera-tion, transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading,
energy services. A global leader in low-carbon energies, the Group
has developed a diversified generation mix based on nuclear power,
hydropower, new renewable energies and thermal energy. The Group is
involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 38.9
million customers(1), 28.8 million of which are in France. It
generated consolidated sales of €71 billion in 2019. EDF is listed
on the Paris Stock Exchange. (1) The customers were counted at the
end of 2019 per delivery site; a customer can have two delivery
points: one for electricity and another for gas.
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