Right to Place Items on the Agenda Sample Clauses

Right to Place Items on the Agenda. For corporate funds, although meetings are generally required or may be requested by investors under EU Member State law,215 the provisions governing investor access to place items on the agenda or submit proposals included or to be included on the agenda are stringent. For example, in the Netherlands, investors in corporate funds must own at least 3% (in case of a large, public company, i.e., Naamloze Vennootschap, ‘NV’) or 1% (in case of a private limit liability company, i.e., Besloten Vennootschap, ‘BV’) of the issued share capital to submit proposals to be voted upon at an annual meeting.216 With respect to a BV fund, the board can even decide not to place proposals on the agenda in case severe interests of the fund conflict with the proposal.217 In the UK, investors in closed-end corporate funds must own at least 10% of the fund’s issued share capital in order to submit proposals to be voted upon at the annual meeting. Alternatively, a group of at least 100 investors, each with no less than GBP 100 invested, may also put forward a proposal.218 The Shareholder Rights Directive recognizes that in order to protect their interests, ‘[s]hareholders should, in principle, have the possibility to put items on the agenda of the general meeting and totable draft resolutions for items on the agenda’.219 The directive requires Member States to not impose a threshold for the exercise of these rights of more than 5% of the company’s share capital and that all shareholders should receive the final version of the agenda in sufficient time to prepare for the discussion 214. Article 1(3)(a) and (b) of the Shareholder Rights Directive. 215. However, some corporate funds, such as private companies and special corporate forms, are not required to hold annual meetings. This is for example the case with UK ICVCs and private companies, except for the removal of directors (and, in the case of UK private companies, auditors). See Articles 4.4.2(1) and 6.5.4(3) of the COLL and Articles 168, 336 and 510 of the UK Companies act. Next to annual meetings, funds may be required to hold special, extraordinary meetings requested by investors holding a certain stake in the fund. See, e.g., Article 303 of the UK Company Act (requiring directors to call a general meeting in case requested by 10% of the paid-up capital or, in case of a company with no share capital, 10% of the total voting rights, or 5% of the paid-up capital or voting rights in case of a private company that did not hol...
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