Frequently asked questions
For more information, please refer to the convocation and/or the participation information available on our website.
Please find answers to popular questions regarding the Annual General Meeting in 2022
- Registration and participation
- AGM portal for virtual participation
- Technical questions
- Physical participation
The Annual General Meeting of Raiffeisen Bank International AG will be held on Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (CEST) at the Hilton Vienna Park, Am Stadtpark 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria. This year's Annual General Meeting will be conducted as a "hybrid" assembly. Shareholders have the option of attending physically at the location of the AGM, or virtually by participating remotely and voting remotely.
Yes, shareholders can choose whether to participate in the General Meeting either in person or virtually. However, participation in person at the venue of the General Meeting is subject to compliance with the rules on preventing the spread of Covid-19 that are applicable on the day of the Annual General Meeting.
Participation in person is wholly conditional on compliance with the rules for preventing the spread of Covid-19 that are applicable on the day of the Annual General Meeting. The Company will provide information on any access requirements relating to the applicable Covid-19 rules from 23 March 2022 onwards on its website (www.rbinternational.com/en/investors/events-overview/annual-general-meetings/annual-general-meeting-2022). Furthermore, information on the envisaged protective and hygiene measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 at the event will be published on the Company’s website no later than 23 March 2022.
Yes, you must register in good time and provide evidence of your share in order to be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and to exercise your voting rights and other shareholder rights. Please contact your depositary bank in good time to ensure proper registration.
Unless the proxy authorization is submitted through the AGM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses of the Company specified in the convocation notice no later than 29 March 2022, 04:00 p.m.
If interested, it is possible to contact Mr. Michael Knap directly before the Annual General Meeting on the mobile phone number: 43 (0)664 2138740 or by e-mail: knap.rbi@anmeldestelle.at. If the independent Austrian Shareholder Association proxy is granted authorization, the authorization, as described above, must also be sent to the Company or submitted through the AGM 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 AGM portal, it must be received by the Company at one of the addresses of the Company specified in the convocation notice no later than 29 March 2022, 04:00 p.m.
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 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 General Meeting (record date). This record date is 21 March 2022, 12:00 p.m. (CET).
The General Meeting will be partially broadcast to the public on the Company’s website from approximately 10:00 a.m. (CEST) from the beginning until the end of the presentation of agenda item 1.
No, no questions addressed to the Annual General Meeting will be answered or published in advance.
Shareholders who are participating virtually can exercise their right to information and to speak during the General Meeting through the AGM portal. They may also address the General Meeting to ask questions and/or make a statement by means of an acoustic and optical two-way connection (supported by a webcam and microphone) in real time via video link. Each shareholder is also invited to send his/her questions directly to the Company during the General Meeting by e-mail to fragen.rbi@anmeldestelle.at. Shareholders may use the question form available on the Company’s website. Questions may be asked until the chairman completes the question and answer process.
Every shareholder is entitled to submit motions at the General Meeting for each item on the agenda (sec. 119 Stock Corporation Act). Shareholders who are participating virtually can exercise their right to submit motions via the AGM portal. The point in time up to which it is possible to submit a motion via the AGM portal will be determined by the Chairman during the virtual AGM and announced in good time.
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 be made available on the Company’s website (as recorded in the commercial register) 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, provided that this request is made in text form and received by the Company no later than 22 March 2022 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. Each resolution proposal must (also) be submitted in a German language version.
The Annual General Meeting will be held in German. We offer simultaneous translation from German into English. Sign-language interpreters will also be available for the entire duration of the General Meeting.
All important dates can be found here: www.rbinternational.com/en/investors/financial-calendar
The Company’s AGM portal is available to shareholders who are participating virtually for the exercise of voting rights and other shareholders’ rights as from the record date (21 March 2022, 12:00 p.m. (CET)) and can be accessed on the Company’s website. Submission of the deposit certificate constitutes registration for the Annual General Meeting at the same time. Registered shareholders are therefore specified as those shareholders whose deposit certificates have been received by the Company on a timely basis.
In the AGM portal, you will find detailed instructions in the lower section of the portal. If you have any open questions, please contact our hotline at 43 (0) 1 3750 215-17 from Monday to Friday from 09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m.
After receipt of the deposit confirmation, the access data for the AGM portal will be sent by e-mail to the e-mail address provided by the shareholder.
You will need the relevant access data to use the AGM portal. The prerequisite for sending the access data for registration in the AGM portal is the timely transmission of the deposit confirmation. This must be received by the Company no later than 28 March 2022, 12:00 p.m. (CEST).
A password lock after multiple incorrect entries is not possible, nor is it possible to set your own password. Please take the access data from the e-mail sent to you.
If shareholders wish to ask their question(s) by video link in real time at the Annual General Meeting, they must inform the Company of this in the AGM portal during the Annual General Meeting by using the button “Register to speak”. A window will open and shareholders will be required to enter a currently accessible e-mail address under the video link heading. A member of the Company’s staff will send an e-mail containing an internet link to a video conferencing program and further instructions to the shareholder at the specified e-mail address. After launching the video conferencing program via the internet link, the shareholder will be invited by a member of the Company’s staff to enter the virtual shareholder waiting room for the General Meeting. The quality of the video and audio transmission will be checked as to whether it is sufficient for a real-time video link to the broadcast of the Annual General Meeting. If this is the case, the chairman of the meeting will authorize the shareholder to be connected at a suitable point.
The Company and its partners work to the highest security standards to ensure the security of the connection. For this purpose, it uses a special encryption technology. Furthermore, the partner of the Company Link Market Services GmbH is ISO 9001:2015 certified by TÜV Hessen. Your data will be treated with the highest confidentiality.
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If you have any technical or organizational questions regarding the use of the AGM portal, you can either call the hotline at 43 (0) 1 3750 215-17 from Monday to Friday from 09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. or send an e-mail to anmeldung.rbi@anmeldestelle.at.
vThe information on the protective and hygiene measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 at the event (“Protection and Hygiene Plan”) will be made available on the Company's website in a continuously updated version as of 23 March 2022 at the latest.
An obligation to wear a particular grade of protective respiratory mask for the entire duration of the Annual General Meeting may be legally required on the day of the General Meeting. Please ensure you are informed in advance of the relevant requirements applicable to the participation.
In order to protect the safety of those attending in person, there will be no hospitality offering at the venue.