=------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General meeting information transmitted by euro adhoc with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement. =------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29.03.2021 Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft Vienna, Commercial Register No. 81906 a ISIN AT0000938204 ("Company") Convening of the 27th Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft for 10:00 am, CEST, on Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 Location of the Shareholders' Meeting as set out in Section 106 (1) of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) in the Wiener Börsensäle, 1010 Vienna, Wipplingerstrasse 34 I. ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING AS A VIRTUAL EVENT 1. COVID-19 Company Law Act (COVID-19-GesG) and COVID-19 Company Law Ordinance (COVID-19-GesV) For the protection of shareholders and other participants, the Management Board has decided to make use of the legal provision of a virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting. The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft on April 28th, 2021, will be held as a virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with Section 1 (2) COVID-19-GesG, Federal Law Gazette I No. 16/2020 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I No. 156/2020 and COVID-19-GesV (Federal Law Gazette II No. 140/2020 as amended by Federal Law Gazette II No. 616/2020), taking into account the interests of both the Company and the participants. This means that, in accordance with the resolution of the Management Board, shareholders and their representatives (with the exception of the special proxies as defined in Section 3 (4) COVID-19-GesV) cannot be physically present at the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft on April 28th, 2021. The virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting will be held in the physical presence of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, the Chairman of the Management Board and the other members of the Management Board, the certifying public notary and the four special proxies nominated by the Company in the Wiener Börsensäle, 1010 Vienna, Wipplingerstraße 34. Holding the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting as a virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with COVID-19-GesV will result in modifications to the proceedings of the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting as well as to how shareholders' rights are exercised. Voting rights, the right to submit motions for resolutions and the right to object will be exercised exclusively by one of the special proxies proposed by the Company in accordance with Section 3 (4) COVID-19-GesV. The right to information can be exercised in the virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting by the shareholders themselves by way of electronic communication, namely by submitting questions in text form exclusively by e-mail directly to the Company's e-mail address fragen.mm@hauptversammlung.at [fragen.mm@hauptversammlung.at], provided that the shareholders have submitted a safe custody receipt as defined in Section 10a AktG in due time in accordance with section IV and have authorized a special proxy in accordance with section V. 2. Transmission of the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting via the Internet The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting will be broadcast in full acoustically and visually in real time on the Internet in accordance with Section 3 (1), (2) and (4) COVID-19-GesV in conjunction with Section 102 (4) AktG. This is permissible under data protection legislation having regard to the legal basis provided by Section 3 (1), (2) and (4) COVID-19-GesV. All shareholders of the Company can participate in the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting on April 28th, 2021, starting at approximately 10:00 am, CEST, using suitable technical means (e.g. computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone, as well as an Internet connection with sufficient bandwidth for streaming videos) over the Internet at www.mayr-melnhof.com/en/ [http://www.mayr-melnhof.com/en/] as a virtual shareholders' meeting. No registration or login is required to follow the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting. Broadcasting the Company's virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting over the Internet gives all shareholders the opportunity to follow the proceedings of the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting, and in particular the presentation by the Management Board, the replies to shareholders' questions, and the voting procedure in real time through this one-way audio and visual link. It should be noted that this live transmission as a virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting does not allow remote participation (Section 102(3)(2) AktG) or remote voting (Section 102(3)(3) AktG and Section 126 AktG) and that the transmission over the Internet is not a two-way communication. The individual shareholder can therefore only follow the course of the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting. It should also be noted that the Company is only responsible for the use of technical communications equipment to the extent that this can be attributed to its area of responsibility (Section 2 (6) COVID-19-GesV). For the rest, reference is made to the information on the organizational and technical requirements for participation in accordance with Section 3 (3) in conjunction with Section 2 (4) COVID-19-GesV ("Participation Information"). II. AGENDA 1. Presentation of the annual financial statements including the management report and the corporate governance report, the consolidated financial statements including the management report of the Group, the proposed allocation of profit and the report of the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2020 2. Resolution on the allocation of the balance sheet profit 3. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Management Board for the financial year 2020 4. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2020 5. Resolution on the remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2020 6. Appointment of the auditor and the Group auditor for the financial year 2021 7. Resolution on the remuneration report III. DOCUMENTS FOR THE ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING; PROVISION OF INFORMATION ONLINE In accordance with Section 108 (3) and (4) AktG, the following documents in particular will be available on the Company's website at www.mayr-melnhof.com/ en/ [http://www.mayr-melnhof.com/en/] and https://www.mayr-melnhof.com/en/for- investors/ordinary-shareholders-meeting-1/ [https://www.mayr-melnhof.com/en/for- investors/ordinary-shareholders-meeting-1/] from April 7th, 2021 at the latest: * Information on the organizational and technical requirements for participation in accordance with Section 3 (3) in conjunction with Section 2 (4) COVID-19- GesV ("Participation Information") * Annual financial statements with management report, * Corporate governance report, * Consolidated financial statements and Group management report, * Proposal for the appropriation of earnings, * Separate non-financial report, * Report of the Supervisory Board, each for the 2020 financial year; * Resolutions proposed by the Management Board and the Supervisory Board on agenda items 2 to 7, * Remuneration report, * Authorization form for the special proxies in accordance with Section 3 (4) COVID-19-GesV, * Question form, * Form for revoking a power of attorney, * Full text of this invitation. IV. RECORD DATE AND REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING The entitlement to participate in the virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting and to exercise voting rights and other shareholder rights to be asserted in the course of this virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with COVID- 19-GesG and COVID-19-GesV will be determined by shareholdings at the close of April 18th, 2021, (12.00 midnight, CEST) (record date). Only persons who are shareholders on the record date and provide evidence thereof to the Company are entitled to participate in and exercise their shareholder rights in this virtual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting in accordance with COVID-19-GesG and COVID-19-GesV. The shareholding is to be evidenced by submission of a safe custody receipt in accordance with section 10a AktG, to be received by the Company no later than 12.00 midnight (CEST) on April 23rd, 2021 exclusively by one of the following methods communication at one of the addresses stated below: (i) Submission of a safe custody receipt in text form meeting the requirements of Section 17 (8) of the Articles of Association By fax +43 1 8900 500 - 93 By e-mail anmeldung.mm@hauptversammlung.at [anmeldung.mm@hauptversammlung.at] (Please supply any safe custody receipt in PDF format) (ii) Submission of the safe custody receipt in written form By mail or courier Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH 8242 St. Lorenzen am Wechsel, Köppel 60 By SWIFT GIBAATWGGMS (Message type MT598 or MT599, ISIN AT0000938204 must be clearly indicated in the text) It will not be possible to appoint a special proxy and to exercise the shareholders' right to information without a safe custody receipt being received by the Company in due time. Shareholders are requested to contact their depositary bank to arrange for a safe custody receipt to be issued and submitted. The record date will have no consequences for the salability of the shares and has no significance for dividend entitlement. Safe custody receipt in accordance with Section 10a AktG The safe custody receipt must be issued by the depositary bank headquartered in
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