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JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800N1B1HCQG2W4V90
27 November 2023
THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC (the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting held on 27 November 2023
The Company announces that at the 33rd Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included three special resolutions:
- Resolution 13: to authorise the directors to allot up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;
- Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares;
- Resolution 15: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 16 October 2023 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.europeansmallercompaniestrust.com.
The poll results were as follows:
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* Special resolution.
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on 23 November 2023 being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the annual general meeting. A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote 'for' or 'against' a resolution.
The number of ordinary shares in issue and total voting rights at the date of this announcement is 400,321,188. Each share carries the entitlement to one vote per share.
A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ('NSM') and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
Colleen Sutcliffe Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited Corporate Secretary Telephone: 020 7818 5919
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Harriet Hall PR Manager, Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Telephone: 020 7818 2919
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