VERBUND AG 
meeting efficiency in the interests of all participants in the Annual General Meeting, particularly in the case of
matters requiring significant preparation time.
By sending your questions in advance, you enable the Executive Board to prepare as precisely as possible and to respond
to your questions as quickly as possible during the Annual General Meeting.
Please use the form provided for this purpose on the Company's website at www.verbund.com/en-at/about-verbund/
investor-relations/general-meeting/2021. If the form provided is not used, the identity of the shareholder must be
specified in an e-mail (name/company name, date of birth/shareholder's commercial register number). We ask that you
additionally include your custodial account number in the e-mail to enable the Company to confirm your identity and
verify consistency with the safe custody receipt.
Please note that the Chairman may set time limits as appropriate during the Annual General Meeting.
More detailed information and the different modalities for exercising shareholder rights to information pursuant to
Section 118 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) will be provided in the Participation Information.
4. Shareholder motions during the Annual General Meeting in accordance with Section 119 of the Austrian Stock
Corporation Act (AktG)
Each shareholder has the right - regardless of their specific shareholding - to have their special proxy propose
motions on each agenda item during the virtual Annual General Meeting pursuant to the COVID-19 Company Law Act
(COVID-19-GesG) and the COVID-19 Company Law Regulation (COVID-19-GesV).
While the virtual Annual General Meeting is ongoing, the Chairman will determine the time up to which instructions for
presenting motions may be provided to special proxies.
This requires evidence of the right to participate in accordance with item IV. of this Notice to Convene and the
granting of a corresponding power of attorney to the special proxy in accordance with item V of this Notice to Convene.
Additional information and the modalities for exercising shareholder rights to information pursuant to Section 119 of
the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG) will be provided in the Participation Information.
5. Information for shareholders on data processing
VERBUND AG, Am Hof 6a, 1010 Vienna, Austria is the party responsible (data controller) for processing shareholders'
personal data.
VERBUND AG processes the personal data of its shareholders - in particular that pursuant to Section 10a(2) of the
Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG), i.e. name, address, date of birth, bank details, securities custody account
number, number of shares held by the shareholder, share class (if applicable), voting card number, and, if applicable,
the name, address and date of birth of the proxy (authorised representative) as well as the voting record and other
actions of the shareholder during the (virtual) Annual General Meeting as recorded in the minutes - on the basis of the
applicable data protection regulations, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Austrian Data
Protection Act and the Austrian Stock Corporation Act.
The personal data of shareholders is processed in order to enable shareholders to exercise their rights at the
(virtual) Annual General Meeting.
VERBUND AG receives the personal data from the shareholders or from the respective custodial bank (data in accordance
with Section 10a(2) of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG)).
The processing of shareholders' personal data is absolutely necessary for the participation of shareholders and their
representatives in the (virtual) Annual General Meeting pursuant to the Austrian Stock Corporation Act. Accordingly,
the legal basis for processing is Article 6(1) lit. c of the GDPR.
VERBUND AG uses service companies and order processors such as IT and back office service providers for the purpose of
organising the (virtual) Annual General Meeting. The service providers are only furnished with such personal data from
VERBUND AG as is required to carry out the contracted service, and they process the data solely on the basis of an
agreement under data protection law.
If a shareholder or a shareholder proxy takes part in the (virtual) Annual General Meeting, all attending shareholders
or their proxies, the members of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board, the notary and all other authorised
persons may view the legally required list of participants (Section 117 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG))
and thus also obtain access to the personal data included in the list (e.g. name, place of residence, shareholding).
VERBUND AG is also legally obliged to submit personal shareholder data (especially the list of participants) to the
commercial register as part of the notarial record (Section 120 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG)). Notaries
receive the personal data necessary to meet these statutory obligations.
Data on shareholders and their representatives is deleted and/or anonymised as soon as it is no longer required for the
purposes for which it was collected and processed, and as long as no other legal obligations require further storage of
such data. Documentation and retention obligations arise in particular on the basis of corporate, stock and takeover
law, from legislation on taxes and duties and from money laundering regulations. In the event that legal claims are
asserted by shareholders against VERBUND AG or by VERBUND AG against shareholders, the storage of personal data serves
the purpose of investigating and asserting such claims in individual cases. In the context of legal proceedings
involving civil lawsuits, this may result in the data being stored for the duration of the period of limitation plus
the duration of the legal proceedings until their final and binding conclusion.
Shareholders and proxies are at all times entitled to exercise any of the rights to information and to rectification,
restriction, objection or deletion with regard to the processing of their personal data as well as to exercise their
right to data portability in accordance with Chapter III of the GDPR. Shareholders may assert these rights against
VERBUND AG free of charge by sending an e-mail to the data protection officer at datenschutz@verbund.com or by way of
the following point of contact:
VERBUND AG
Am Hof 6a,
1010 Vienna, Austria
Furthermore, shareholders have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority for data protection as
defined in Article 77 of the GDPR.
VII. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
1. Total number of shares and voting rights
As of the date of this Notice to Convene the Annual General Meeting, the Company's share capital amounted to
347,415,686 euros and was divided into 170,233,686 ordinary bearer shares and 177,182,000 ordinary registered shares.
Each share confers the right to one vote at the virtual Annual General Meeting, subject to the following:
Pursuant to Section 19(3) of the Articles of Association, with the exception of regional authorities and companies in
which regional authorities hold an interest of at least 51%, the voting rights of each shareholder in the Annual
General Meeting are restricted to 5% of the share capital, and thus to 17,370,784 votes.
2. No physical attendance
With respect to the upcoming Annual General Meeting, we would like to expressly point out once again that neither
shareholders nor any guests will be permitted to access the location of the Annual General Meeting in person pursuant
to the COVID-19 Company Law Regulation (COVID-19-GesV).
Vienna, March 2021
The Executive Board
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Language: English
Company: VERBUND AG
Am Hof 6A
1010 Wien
Austria
Phone: 0043-1-53113-52604
Fax: 0043-1-53113-52694
E-mail: investor-relations@verbund.com
Internet: www.verbund.com
ISIN: AT0000746409
WKN: 877738
Listed: Foreign Exchange(s) Vienna Stock Exchange (Official Market)
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