Frequently asked questions

No, the Extraordinary General Meeting will take place without your physical presence. For participation in the Extraordinary General Meeting, the Company provides an GM portal. For more details, please refer to the notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting or the technical requirements ("Participation Information") directly from our website.

For the participation at the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting an GM portal is provided. You can therefore participate in the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting by electronic connection using individual access data through the GM portal. 

Yes, you must register in good time and provide evidence of your share in order to be entitled to attend the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting and to exercise your voting rights and other shareholder rights. Please contact your depositary bank in good time to ensure proper registration. 

For the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting, the Company provides access to an GM portal. You can therefore participate and exercise your voting rights in the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting by electronic connection using individual access data through the GM portal set up by the Company.

Pursuant to sec 3 para 4 of the COVID-19 Company Law Act (Gesellschaftsrechtliches COVID-19-Gesetz as amended), a listed company may provide that the submission of motions for resolutions, the casting of votes and the lodging of an objection in the virtual shareholders' meeting may only be carried out by a special proxy. Since the GM portal enables remote participation (sec 102 para 3 sub-para 2 Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz)) and remote voting (sec 102 para 3 sub-para 3 Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) and sec 126 Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz), no special proxies are required.

Unless the proxy authorization is submitted through the GM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses listed in the convocation below no later than 09 November 2021 at 04:00 p.m. (CET).

If interested, you can contact the Austrian Shareholder Association independent proxy Mr. Michael Knap directly before the Extraordinary General Meeting under the mobile phone number: +43 (0)664 2138740 or by e-mail: knap.rbi@anmeldestelle.at. In the case of the authorization of Mr. Knap, the proxy must be sent to the Company or entered via the GM portal. In each instance, instructions must be given to the Austrian Shareholder Association for the exercise of the voting right. Without such explicit instructions, the voting right will not be exercised. 

Unless the proxy authorization is submitted through the GM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses listed below no later than 09 November 2021 at 04:00 p.m. (CET):

• by fax: +43 (0) 1 3750 215-99
• by e-mail to anmeldung.rbi@anmeldestelle.at, with the proxy authorization attached to the e-mail (e.g. pdf)
• by SWIFT to RZBAATWWXXX, Message Type MT598 or MT599; enter "HV RBI" in field 20 and "ISIN AT0000606306" in field 77E or 79, or 
• by mail or courier service to Raiffeisen Bank International AG, c/o Link Market Services GmbH, Siebensterngasse 32-34, 1070 Vienna.  

A form for granting proxy authorization and one for revocation of proxy authorization will be sent upon request and are available on the Company’s website.

The right to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting and to exercise voting rights and other shareholder rights which are to be exercised during the course of the General Meeting depends on the ownership of shares at the end of the tenth day prior to the Extraordinary General Meeting (record date). This record date is 31 October 2021, 12:00 p.m. (CET).

The Extraordinary General Meeting will be broadcasted, from the beginning until the end of the presentation of agenda item 1, on our website.

No. Voting by letter is not possible. To exercise your voting rights, please use the designated GM portal or grant a proxy to a third person.

No, no questions addressed to the Extraordinary General Meeting will be answered in advance or published.

During the Extraordinary General Meeting your right to information and to speak may only be exercised electronically through the GM portal, by e-mail or by telephone in real time.

• For the exercise of the right to information through the GM portal, the 'Submit question' button is provided in the portal.
• If you wish to ask your question(s) by telephone in real time of the Extraordinary General Meeting, you must inform the Company of this in the GM portal during the Extraordinary General Meeting by using the button 'Register to speak'.
• Moreover, you are also invited to directly submit questions to the Company by e-mail to fragen.rbi@anmeldestelle.at. 

You may use the inquiry form available on the Company’s website. Questions may be asked until the chairmen complete the question-answer process.   

You are entitled to submit motions at the Extraordinary General Meeting on any item on the agenda (sec 119 Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz)). 

The point in time up to which it is possible to submit a motion via the GM portal will be determined by the Chairman during the virtual extraordinary GM and announced in good time. 

Further information on exercising these shareholder rights via the GM portal can be found in the participation information, which is available on the Company's website.

Shareholders whose shares equal individually or in aggregate 1% of the share capital of the Company may submit to the Company proposals for resolutions in respect of each agenda item together with a statement specifying the reasons for the proposal and request that these proposals will be made available on the Company's website together with the names of the respective shareholders, the accompanying statements of reasons for the proposals and any statements issued by the Management Board or Supervisory Board. Submission of a deposit certificate pursuant to sec 10a of the Stock Corporation Act which, at the time of its submission to the Company, must not be more than seven days old, is required as proof of share ownership for the purposes of exercising these shareholder rights. Where there are several shareholders holding shares which only equal the required 1% of the share capital when taken together, or in the case of more than one deposit certificate for shares which only equal the required 1% when taken together, all deposit certificates must refer to the same effective date. 

This request is made in text form and received by the Company no later than 29 October 2021 either

• by fax to +43 (0) 1 3750 215-99
• by e-mail to anmeldung.rbi@anmeldestelle.at or 
• by mail or courier service to Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Attn. Elisabeth Klinger – Group Investor Relations,  Am Stadtpark 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria. 

A proposed resolution that has been published on the Company's website pursuant to sec 110 of the Stock Corporation Act may only be voted on if it is repeated as a motion at the Extraordinary General Meeting. Each resolution proposal must (also) be submitted in a German language version. 

The Extraordinary General Meeting will be held in German. Simultaneous translation from German into English will be provided. 

Please contact us via service hotline or by e-mail at +43 (0) 1 3750 21517 daily from 09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. (CET) or by e-mail at anmeldung.rbi@anmeldestelle.at.

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