GENERAL MEETING OF HAFSLUND ASA: ACCOUNTS AND DIVIDEND FOR 1998
Of the 85.425.929 shares registered for the meeting, 61.059.917 were A Class shares with voting rights and 24.366.012 B Class shares.
The accounts for 1998 were unanimously decided upon. Shareholders will receive a dividend of NOK 1,10 per share. The dividend will be paid out on the 28 May 1999.
The shareholders meeting also approved the fee presented by the Auditors for 1998. It was also decided that the compensation for the officers of the Corporate Assembly should be left unchanged from 1998.
The Board represented by the chairman Mr. Johan Fredrik Odfjell chose to withdraw the proposed purchase of own shares.
In accordance with the proposal from the Nomination Committee the Meeting unanimously re-elected Sverre Morten Blix to serve as member of the Corporate Assembly for a period of two years. As new members of the Corporate Assembly are Bertil Tiusanen elected to replace Anders Hedensted, Nils Bjørnebekk to replace Hans Herman Horn and Sten Åke Forsberg to replace Svein R. Hagen.
In accordance with the proposal from the Nomination Committee Christen Furuholmen and Georg Kervel were re-elected to serve as deputy members of the Corporate Assembly for a period of one year. Svein R. Hagen and Ellen Christine Christiansen are elected as new deputy members of the corporate assembly.
With 59.370.955 against 1.681.271 voting A-shares decided to increase the number of members of the Corporate assembly from 12 to 15 members, with effect from the ordinary General Meeting in year 2000
Erling Øverland was unanimously elected to serve as a member of the Nomination Committee for a period of two years.