Designees (a) On the Closing Date, the Company will take all Necessary Action to cause the Investor Directors listed in Exhibit A hereto to be appointed to the Board.
(b) From and after the Closing Date until the Board Designation Expiration Date, the manner for selecting nominees for election to the Board will be as follows, subject to Section 3.4:
(i) In connection with each annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Company at which directors are to be elected (each such annual or special meeting, an “Election Meeting”), the Investor shall have the right to designate for nomination a number of Investor Directors as follows: (A) during any time that the Investor Group and the Management Group collectively Beneficially Own, and have collectively Beneficially Owned at all times from the Closing Date through such Election Meeting, at least twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, two (2) Investor Directors or (B) during any time that the Investor Group and the Management Group do not collectively satisfy the tests set forth in the preceding clause (A) but do collectively Beneficially Own, and have collectively Beneficially Owned at all times from the Closing Date through such Election Meeting, at least ten percent (10%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, one (1) Investor Director.
(ii) The Investor shall give written notice to the Governance Committee of each such Investor Director no later than the date that is sixty (60) days before the first anniversary of the date that the Company’s annual proxy for the prior year was first mailed to the Company’s stockholders and the Investor shall provide, or cause such individual(s) to provide, to the Company, such information about such individuals and the nomination to the Company at such times as the Company may reasonably request in order to ensure compliance with the applicable stock exchange rules and the applicable securities Laws, and to enable the Board of any committee thereof to make determinations with respect to the qualifications of the individual(s) to be Investor Director(s) (the “Required Information”); provided, however, that if the Investor fails to give such notice or the Required Information in a timely manner, then the Investor shall be deemed to have nominated the incumbent Investor Director or Investor Directors, as applicable, in a timely manner. The Investor shall also provide to the Company, upon reasonable request from the Company and in connection with providing the Required Information, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company that the Investor Group and the Management Group collectively Beneficially Own the number of shares of Common Stock that would be required to designate the number of Investor Directors pursuant to this Section 3.1(b) then serving on the Board or then being designated to the Board in connection with an Election Meeting, as applicable.
(iii) In the event that the Company amends its certificate of incorporation to provide that the Board shall be classified into separate classes of directors, then proper provision shall be made such that the designees of the Investor shall be distributed as evenly as possible among such classes of directors in order to preserve the designation rights of the Investor in accordance with this Section 3.1.
(c) From and after the Closing Date until the Board Designation Expiration Date, the Company shall take all Necessary Actions to cause the Board to include the Investor Director(s) entitled to be designated by the Investor pursuant to Section 3.1(b) and otherwise to reflect the Board composition contemplated by Section 3.1, including the following: (i) at each Election Meeting, include (x) the Investor Director(s) entitled to be designated by the Investor pursuant to Section 3.1(b) in the slate of nominees recommended by the Board to the Company’s stockholders for election as directors, (ii) to solicit proxies in order to obtain stockholder approval of the election of the Investor Director(s), including causing officers of the Company who hold proxies (unless otherwise directed by the Company stockholder submitting such proxy) to vote such proxies in favor of the election of such Investor Director(s) and (iii) to cause the Investor Director(s) to be elected to the Board, including recommending that the Company’s stockholders vote in favor of the Investor Director(s) in any proxy statement used by the Company to solicit the vote of its stockholders in connection with each Election Meeting.
(d) If at any time the number of Investor Directors serving on the Board exceeds the total number of Investor Directors the Investor is entitled to designate pursuant to Section 3.1(b), then unless otherwise requested by the Board by action of the Non-Affiliated Directors, the Investor shall promptly (and in any event prior to the time the Board next takes any action, whether at a meeting or by written consent) cause one or more such Investor Director(s) to resign from the Board such that, following such resignation(s), the number of Investor Directors serving on the Board does not exceed the total number of Investor Directors the Investor is entitled to designate pursuant to Section 3.1(b).
(e) On the earliest to occur of (the “Board Designation Expiration Date”) (i) the Investor Group and the Management Group collectively Beneficially Owning less than ten percent (10%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and (ii) such date that the Investor delivers a written waiver of its rights under this Section 3.1 and Section 3.2 to the Company (which shall be irrevocable) the Investor will have no further rights under this Section 3.1 or Section 3.2.
(f) For the avoidance of doubt and subject to Section 3.5 and Section 3.7, the rights granted to Investor to designate members of the Board are additive to, and not intended to limit in any way, the rights that the Investor may have to nominate, elect or remove directors under the Organizational Documents or Delaware General Corporation Law.
Project Director The individual designated by the juvenile board or Chief Administrative Officer, who is to be responsible for the administration and coordination of grant funds in accordance with this Contract ,, the general grant requirements, and applicable Targeted Grant requirements.
Members (a) A Person shall be admitted as a Member and shall become bound by, and shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound by, the terms of this Agreement if such Person purchases or otherwise lawfully acquires any Share, and such Person shall become the Record Holder of such Share, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. A Member may be a Class A Member and or a Class B Member, and, in such case, shall have the rights and obligation accorded to the Class A Ordinary Shares with respect to such Class A Ordinary Shares and the rights and obligations accorded to the Class B Ordinary Shares with respect to such Class B Ordinary Shares. A Person may become a Record Holder without the consent or approval of any of the Members and without physical execution of this Agreement. A Person may not become a Member without acquiring a Share.
(b) The name and mailing address of each Member or such Member’s representative shall be listed on the books and records of the Company maintained for such purpose by the Company or the Transfer Agent.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in the Delaware Act, the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and the Members shall not be obligated personally for any such debt, obligation or liability of the Company solely by reason of being a Member of the Company.
(d) Except to the extent expressly provided in this Agreement: (i) no Member shall be entitled to the withdrawal or return of any Capital Contribution, except to the extent, if any, that distributions made pursuant to this Agreement or upon dissolution of the Company may be considered as such by law and then only to the extent provided for in this Agreement; (ii) no Member shall have priority over any other Member either as to the return of Capital Contributions or as to profits, losses or distributions; (iii) no interest shall be paid by the Company on Capital Contributions; and (iv) no Member, in its capacity as such, shall participate in the operation or management of the Company’s business, transact any business in the Company’s name or have the power to sign documents for or otherwise bind the Company by reason of being a Member.
(e) Any Member shall be entitled to and may have business interests and engage in business activities in addition to those relating to the Company, including business interests and activities in direct competition with the Company. Neither the Company nor any of the other Members shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement in any such business interests or activities of any Member.
Nominating Committee Subject to the provisions of Article X, the Nominating Committee shall consist of such number of Directors (none of whom shall be an employee of the Corporation) as may be determined from time to time by the Board. Subject to the provisions of Article X, the Committee shall review the qualifications of potential candidates for the Equity Directors and shall propose nominees for the Equity Directors who are nominated by the Board. Subject to the provisions of Article X, in making their nominations, the Nominating Committee and the Board of Directors shall take into consideration that (i) the Board of Directors shall have meaningful representation of a diversity of interests, including floor brokers, floor traders, futures commission merchants, producers, consumers, processors, distributors and merchandisers of commodities traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (the “Exchange”) or Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. (the “CBOT”), participants in a variety of pits or principal groups of commodities traded on the Exchange or the CBOT and other market users or participants; (ii) at least 10% of the members of Board of Directors shall be composed of persons representing farmers, producers, merchants or exporters of principal commodities traded on the Exchange or the CBOT; and (iii) at least 20% of the members of the Board of Directors shall be composed of persons who do not possess trading privileges on either the Exchange or the CBOT, are not salaried employees of the Corporation and are not officers, principals or employees who are involved in operating the futures exchange related business of a firm entitled to members’ rates on either the Exchange or the CBOT. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Nominating Committee shall include the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation as a nominee for an Equity Director at any annual meeting of shareholders at which his or her term is scheduled to expire; provided, that if such term expiration occurs during the Transition Period, the Chief Executive Officer shall be nominated as a CME Director. Subject to the provisions of Article X, a majority of the Nominating Committee shall constitute a quorum necessary to transact business.
Technical Committee 1. The Technical Committee shall comprise:
(a) nine experts representing different regions of the Agreement Area, in accordance with a balanced geographical distribution;
(b) one representative from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), one from the International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB) and one from the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC); and
(c) one expert from each of the following fields: rural economics, game management, and environmental law. The procedure for the appointment of the experts, the term of their appointment and the procedure for designation of the Chairman of the Technical Committee shall be determined by the Meeting of the Parties. The Chairman may admit a maximum of four observers from specialized international inter- governmental and non-governmental organizations.
2. Unless the Meeting of the Parties decides otherwise, meetings of the Technical Committee shall be convened by the Agreement secretariat in conjunction with each ordinary session of the Meeting of the Parties and at least once between ordinary sessions of the Meeting of the Parties.
3. The Technical Committee shall:
(a) provide scientific and technical advice and information to the Meeting of the Parties and, through the Agreement secretariat, to Parties;
(b) make recommendations to the Meeting of the Parties concerning the Action Plan, implementation of the Agreement and further research to be carried out;
(c) prepare for each ordinary session of the Meeting of the Parties a report on its activities, which shall be submitted to the Agreement secretariat not less than one hundred and twenty days before the session of the Meeting of the Parties, and copies shall be circulated forthwith by the Agreement secretariat to the Parties; and
(d) carry out any other tasks referred to it by the Meeting of the Parties.
4. Where in the opinion of the Technical Committee there has arisen an emergency which requires the adoption of immediate measures to avoid deterioration of the conservation status of one or more migratory waterbird species, the Technical Committee may request the Agreement secretariat to convene urgently a meeting of the Parties concerned. These Parties shall meet as soon as possible thereafter to establish rapidly a mechanism to give protection to the species identified as being subject to particularly adverse threat. Where a recommendation has been adopted at such a meeting, the Parties concerned shall inform each other and the Agreement secretariat of measures they have taken to implement it, or of the reasons why the recommendation could not be implemented.
5. The Technical Committee may establish such working groups as may be necessary to deal with specific tasks.
