HNA - Press release general meeting
A total of 165.131.134 of the company's shares were represented, of which 108.794.126 were A shares carrying voting rights and 56.337.008 were B shares.
Hafslund ASA's annual accounts were presented and unanimously approved by the general meeting. The general meeting resolved to distribute a dividend for 2001 of NOK 1.20 per share. The dividend will be distributed 3 June 2002.
Upon proposition by the board of directors, the general meeting resolved to grant the board of directors the authority to acquire own B shares. The maximum nominal value of shares which may be acquired in accordance with such authority is NOK 19,522,344, corresponding to 10% of the company's share capital.
The general meeting elected PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's new auditor. The resolution was unanimous and in accordance with the board of directors' nomination.
Upon proposition by the election committee, Bjørn Eidem was elected as the chairman of the board. Tore Olaf Rimmereid, Arild Sundberg and Lars Fritihiof were re-elected as board members for the period until the annual general meeting of 2004. The remaining board members were at the annual general meeting of 20 December 2001 elected for the period until the annual general meeting of 2003.
The general meeting re-elected Borger A. Lenth as the chairman of the election committee. Christen Furuholmen (re-elected), Khennet Tallinger (re-elected) and Kjell Viland (new) were elected as members of the election committee.
Oslo, 14 May 2002