Annual General Meeting of Q-Med AB (publ)
The Annual General Meeting of Q-Med AB (publ) was held on April 29, 2009 at 3 p.m.
Dividend
The meeting adopted a resolution that no dividend is to be paid to the shareholders.
Board and fees
The meeting adopted a resolution to re-elect the following members of the Board: Bertil Hult, Ulf Mattsson, Anders Milton, Tomas Nicolin, Kristina Persson and Bengt Ågerup for the period up until the end of the next Annual General Meeting. The meeting also re-elected Anders Milton as the Chair of the Board.
The meeting also adopted a resolution that Board fees of 1,400,000 SEK in total be paid for the period 2009/2010, in accordance with the proposal of the Election Committee, with 450,000 SEK to the Chair of the Board, 250,000 SEK to each of Ulf Mattsson, Tomas Nicolin and Kristina Persson, and 200,000 SEK to Bertil Hult. Bengt Ågerup is an employee of the company and shall therefore not receive a Board fee.
Auditors' fees shall be paid in accordance with reasonable invoicing.
An unchanged fee of 200,000 SEK in total shall be paid for work on the audit committee, with 100,000 SEK to the Chair of the committee and 50,000 SEK to each of the other two committee members.
Election Committee
The meeting adopted a resolution that the election committee shall consist of five members. Bengt Ågerup and Anders Milton, the Chair of the Board, were elected as members, while Robert Wikholm was elected as Chair with the assignment of finding, at the latest during the third quarter, two representatives from the major institutional owners, to be included as members of the election committee together with the three above-mentioned persons. No fee is to be paid to the election committee.
Principles for remuneration
The meeting adopted a resolution on principles for remuneration and other conditions of employment for senior management in accordance with the proposal of the Board.
Change in the Articles of Association
A resolution was adopted that the first sentence of §8 of the Articles of Association shall have the following wording and that a new second sentence be added as follows: Notice of the General Meeting of the shareholders shall be given through an announcement in the Swedish Official Gazette (Post och Inrikes Tidningar) and on the company’s website. It is to be published in Svenska Dagbladet that notice has been given. The resolution is on the condition that the change in the way of giving notice of the General Meeting of the shareholders has come into force in the Swedish Companies Act (SFS 2005:551), meaning that the proposed wording of §8 above is consistent with the Swedish Companies Act.
Queries should be addressed to:
Carina Bolin, General Counsel
Tel: +46 70 974 9117
Kristin Ermanbriks, Manager Corporate Administration
Tel: +46 70 974 9071