Companies Register. The request must be sent in writing to the Company's address at A-1029 Vienna, Untere Donaustrasse 21, UNIQA Tower, Investor Relations, or by fax at +43 1 211 75 79 3773 or e-mail to hauptversammlung@uniqa.at [hauptversammlung@uniqa.at]. The request will be considered receivable if received by the Company on or before the 7th working day prior to the Annual General Meeting, i.e. on or before 19 May 2021. The independent proxy authorized by the respective shareholder to introduce such a motion or such motions at the Annual General Meeting (Section 119 (2) Stock Corporation Act) is to be instructed accordingly in due time. Pursuant to Section 118 of the Stock Corporation Act, every shareholder has the right to be informed about the Company's affairs at the Annual General Meeting upon his or her request, provided such information is necessary to properly assess an item on the agenda. Information may be withheld if, based on sound business judgment, it is likely to cause the Company or any of its affiliates a significant disadvantage, or if the disclosure of such information would constitute a criminal offence. Shareholder rights which are linked to the holding of shares at a certain point in time or during a certain period of time may be exercised only if the shareholder submits a deposit certificate pursuant to Section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act as proof of shareholder status during the relevant period. Additional information about shareholder rights pursuant to Sections 109, 110 and 118 of the Stock Corporation Act as well as further information on the organizational and technical prerequisites and the modalities of the Annual General Meeting as a virtual meeting as well as the exercise of shareholder rights pursuant to Sections 109, 110, 118 and 119 of the Stock Corporation Act in this context (including requests for the floor and the right to demand information) will be provided on and after 29 April 2021 on the Company's website (www.uniqagroup.com [http://www.uniqagroup.com/]) under Investor Relations/Annual General Meeting. Right to attend, deposit certificate, record date, and proxy (Section 106 points 6, 7 and 8 Stock Corporation Act) Pursuant to Section 111 (1) of the Stock Corporation Act, the right to attend the Annual General Meeting - including an Annual General Meeting conducted as a virtual meeting - and to exercise shareholder rights depends on the shares held at the end of the tenth day prior to the Annual General Meeting (record date). Only shareholders who were shareholders at the end of the tenth day prior to the Annual General Meeting (record date) have the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting conducted as a virtual meeting (without physical presence) and exercise their shareholder rights. The record date is 21 May 2021, 24:00 hours (Vienna time). For bearer shares deposited with a custodian (all shares issued by the Company are bearer shares), proof of shareholder status on the record date is furnished by producing to the Company a deposit certificate pursuant to Section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act, which must be issued in writing and received by the Company on the third working day prior to the Annual General Meeting at the latest, hence on or before 26 May 2021, at A-1029 Vienna, Untere Donaustrasse 21, UNIQA Tower, Investor Relations, or by fax (fax unsigned is allowed) at +43 (0)1 8900 500 95 or by e-mail to anmeldung.uniqa@hauptversammlung.at [anmeldung.uniqa@hauptversammlung.at] or by SWIFT message type MT598 or MT599 to GIBAATWGGMS with reference to ISIN AT0000821103. The deposit certificate pursuant to Section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act must be issued by the custodian bank domiciled in a Member State of the European Economic Area or in a full Member State of the OECD. If the deposit certificate is to prove current shareholder status, it must not be older than seven days when presented to the Company. The Company accepts deposit certificates in German and in English. The deposit certificate must be issued by the shareholder's custodian bank and must contain at least the following information: * Information about the issuer: name/company name and address or a code commonly used in transactions between banks (SWIFT code), * Information about the shareholder: name/company name, address, date of birth of natural persons, register and register number (Companies Register number) of legal persons, * Securities account number or other identifier, * Information about the shares: number of the shareholder's no-par-value shares, * Date or period to which the deposit certificate refers. Shares are not blocked as a result of shareholders registering for the Annual General Meeting and/or presenting a deposit certificate. Shareholders may continue to freely dispose of their shares even after registration and/or presentation of a deposit certificate. Every shareholder who has the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting - without being physically present - may appoint one of the four special independent proxies as his/her proxy pursuant to Section 3 (4) of the Regulation (one "special proxy" each). The appointment of other persons as proxies for this Annual General Meeting is not possible. If a shareholder wishes to take the floor once or several times, introduce one or several motions, exercise his/her voting right at the Annual General Meeting or challenge a resolution, a special proxy must be appointed. The proxy must be transmitted to one of the special proxies in text form. Shareholders are free to use the forms (prepared for each of the special proxies) made available by the Company on its website (www.uniqagroup.com [http://www.uniqagroup.com/]) under Investor Relations/ Annual General Meeting. Use of these forms is not obligatory. The costs of the special proxies are borne by the Company. Detailed information on and the modalities of the virtual AGM, including the organizational and technical prerequisites, the names of the four persons proposed by the Company to act as special independent proxies, as well as information on giving instructions and granting proxies will be available on the website of the Company (www.uniqagroup.com [http://www.uniqagroup.com/]) under Investor Relations/ Annual General Meeting as of 29 April 2021. A shareholder's proxy must be transmitted to the Company and preserved or verifiably recorded by the Company. The proxy should arrive at the email address (yet to be notified) of the shareholder representative authorized by the respective shareholder not later than Friday, 28 May 2021, 16:00 hrs., Vienna time. Nevertheless, every shareholder may transmit the proxy form issued by him/ her not later than 28 May 2021, 16:00 hrs., Vienna time (last working day prior to the Annual General Meeting) to the Company's address at A-1029 Vienna, Untere Donaustrasse 21, UNIQA Tower, Investor Relations, or by fax (in text form) at +43 (0)1 8900 500 95 or by email at anmeldung.uniqa@hauptversammlung.at [anmeldung.uniqa@hauptversammlung.at], with the proxy attached to the e-mail message in text form (e.g. as a pdf file), or by SWIFT message type MT598 or MT599 to GIBAATWGGMS with reference to ISIN AT0000821103. Owing to the character of the Annual General Meeting as a virtual meeting, handing over the proxy form on the day of the Annual General Meeting at the meeting venue is not possible. Upon request, the proxy form made available on the Company's website will be sent to shareholders by post. It will not be possible for shareholders to give proxies to their custodian bank (Section 10a Stock Corporation Act) as shareholder representative for the direct exercise of shareholder rights at the Annual General Meeting in the meaning of Section 3 (4) of the Regulation, as the Company does not intend to propose a credit institution as a special proxy. The above provisions governing the granting of proxies also apply, mutatis mutandis, to the revocation of proxies. Information for shareholders regarding data processing In order to enable the shareholders to exercise their rights within the framework of the Annual General Meeting, UNIQA Insurance Group AG processes the shareholders' personal data (in particular data pursuant to Section 10a (2) of the Stock Corporation Act, i.e. name, address, date of birth, number of the securities deposit account, number of shares held by the shareholder, type of shares, where applicable, number of the voting card and, where applicable, the name and date of birth of the proxy-holder(s)) on the basis of the data protection provisions in effect, especially the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as the Austrian Data Protection Act and the Stock Corporation Act. Pursuant to the Stock Corporation Act, the processing of personal data of shareholders is a mandatory prerequisite for the participation of shareholders (including the special proxies) in the Annual General Meeting. The legal basis for data processing is Article 6 (1) c) of the GDPR. UNIQA Insurance Group AG is the controller responsible for the processing of personal data. For the purpose of organizing the Annual General Meeting, UNIQA Insurance Group AG uses the services of external service providers, such as public notaries, lawyers, banks and IT providers. These receive from UNIQA Insurance Group AG only such personal data as are required for the performance of the contractually agreed services and process such data exclusively on the basis of instructions received from UNIQA Insurance Group AG. As far as required by law, UNIQA Insurance Group AG has concluded privacy agreements with these service providers. The special proxies, the members of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board, the public notary and all other persons entitled by law to participate in the Annual General Meeting have the right to view the legally required list of attendance (Section 117 of the Stock Corporation Act) and thus view the personal
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