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Aquila European Renewables Income Fund plc
Results of the Annual General Meeting
LEI: LEI: 213800UKH1TZIC9ZRP41
Aquila European Renewables Income Fund plc (the "Company") announces that all of the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.
As announced on the 28 April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis and UK Government stay at home measures and restrictions on public gatherings, the Annual General Meeting was a closed meeting with shareholders voting in advance by proxy.
Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld will shortly be published on the Company's website at www.aquila-european-renewable-income-fund.com.
The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.
The proxy votes received were as follows:
Resolution | Description | In Favour and Discretionary | Against | Withheld | ||
1 | Report & Accounts | 106,488,867 | 96.4% | 4,000,000 | 3.6% | 0 |
2 | Remuneration Policy | 109,936,548 | 99.5% | 552,319 | 0.5% | 0 |
3 | Remuneration Report | 109,936,548 | 99.5% | 552,319 | 0.5% | 0 |
4 | To Elect Ian Nolan | 110,488,867 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
5 | To Elect Patricia Rodrigues | 110,488,867 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
6 | To Elect David MacLellan | 110,488,867 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
7 | To Elect Kenneth MacRitchie | 110,487,644 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 1,223 |
8 | To Appoint PwC as Auditors | 105,936,548 | 95.9% | 4,552,319 | 4.1% | 0 |
9 | To permit the Board to authorise the Auditors fees | 109,936,548 | 99.5% | 552,319 | 0.5% | 0 |
10 | To Allow shareholders to receive electronic communications | 110,488,867 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
11 | To allot new shares | 110,488,867 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
12 | To allow shares to be issued for cash up to 10% | 109,936,548 | 99.5% | 552,319 | 0.5% | 0 |
13 | To allow shares to be issued for cash up to a further 10% | 102,259,987 | 92.6% | 8,228,880 | 7.4% | 0 |
14 | To make market purchases | 109,936,548 | 99.5% | 552,319 | 0.5% | 0 |
15 | Allow General Meetings to be held at 14 days' notice | 109,936,548 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 552,319 |
The votes withheld is not a vote in law and is excluded from the calculation.
At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 193,411,876 Ordinary Shares and this is the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company.
Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Enquiries:
PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited | 020 7653 9690 |
Company Secretary |
8 June 2020
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