The task of the Nomination Committee ahead of the AGM is also to prepare the proposal for the rules of procedure for the Nomination Committee.
The Annual General Meeting of Cloetta on 9 April 2024 adopted the rules for the Nomination Committee according to the following:
- The company shall have a nomination committee consisting of not less than four and not more than six members. Three of the members shall be appointed by the major shareholders and one member shall be appointed by the Board of Directors amongst its directors. These members of the nomination committee may appoint one additional member. In those cases referred to in item 6 below, the number of members can amount to six.
- Based on ownership register received as per 31 July, the Chairman of the Board shall each year, without delay, contact the three largest shareholders in the company in terms of votes, and offer such shareholders to, within reasonable time, each appoint a representative to be part of the nomination committee. If any of these shareholders elects to renounce from its right to appoint a representative, the right to appoint a representative shall be transferred to the largest shareholder in turn in terms of votes which is not already entitled to be represented on the nomination committee. The nomination committee shall not include a representative of a shareholder that itself or through others conducts competing activities with the group.
- The member of the nomination committee who represents the shareholder controlling the largest number of votes shall chair the nomination committee.
- The members of the nomination committee are appointed for a term up until a new nomination committee has been appointed.
- The composition of the nomination committee shall be announced as soon as the nomination committee has been formed and in all events no later than 30 September the year before the next Annual General Meeting.
- In the event that the ownership structure of the company is changed after 31 July and not later than 31 December the year before the next Annual General Meeting, and if a shareholder that has become one of the three largest shareholders in terms of votes following this change asks the chairman of the nomination committee to be represented on the nomination committee, such shareholder is entitled to, in the nomination committee’s discretion, either appoint an additional member to the nomination committee or to replace the member who represents, following the change of the ownership structure, the smallest shareholder in terms of votes.
- If a member of the nomination committee that represent a shareholder resigns or otherwise is unable to continue as member, the nomination committee shall – if time allows and if the change is not due to a specific circumstance e.g. that the shareholder has sold its shares – request the shareholder that had appointed that member to, within reasonable time, appoint a new member of the nomination committee. If the shareholder is no longer eligible for the nomination committee or if it renounces its right to appoint a member, the right to appoint such new member shall be transferred to the largest shareholder in turn in terms of votes which is not already represented on, or has renounced its right to appoint a member to, the nomination committee. If a member that has been appointed by the other members of the nomination committee resigns or is otherwise unable to continue as member, the other members of the nomination committee may elect a new member.
- The members of the nomination committee are not to receive any remuneration from the company. However, the company shall be liable for costs incurred by the nomination committee in its work.
- The nomination committee shall present proposals regarding
- Chairman of the Annual General Meeting
- Number of members of the Board of Directors
- Members of the Board of Directors to be elected by the Annual General Meeting
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Remuneration to the Board of Directors elected by the Annual General Meeting, distributed between the chairman of the board, the deputy chairman of the board, if any, and the other members of the Board of Directors, and remuneration for work on the committees
- Remuneration to the auditor
- Election of auditor
- Rules for the nomination committee
- At shareholders’ meetings other than the Annual General Meeting, the nomination committee shall submit proposals for elections, if any, to take place at such shareholders’ meeting.