Annual General Meeting

The ultimate authority in Finnair is vested in the General Meeting of Shareholders. An Annual General Meeting (the AGM) must be held each year by the end of May.

The competence of the General Meeting of Shareholders is set out in the Companies Act and in Finnair's Articles of Association. The AGM shall annually decide on the following matters:

• adoption of the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements

• the use of the profit shown on the balance sheet

• the discharging of the Members of the Board and the CEO from liability

• the appointment of the Members of the Board and their remunerations

• election of the Chairman of the Board from among the Members

• the election and remuneration of the auditor.

Convening the General Meeting and related notices

The Board convenes the General Meetings of Shareholders by publishing a notice no earlier than three months and no later than three weeks before the date of the meeting and always at least nine days before the record date of the meeting. The notice shall be published as a stock exchange release and on Finnair’s website.

A shareholder has the right to have a matter falling within the competence of the General Meeting of Shareholders addressed by the meeting, if the shareholder so demands in writing from the Board by the date announced on Finnair's website.

Right to participate

Finnair shareholders who are registered on the record date as a shareholder in the company's public register of shareholders, maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy, has the right to participate in the General Meeting of Shareholders. A holder of nominee-registered shares has to register temporarily in the register of shareholders. Furthermore, in order to attend the General Meeting, a shareholder must register for the meeting in the manner defined in the notice convening the Meeting by the date specified in the notice. The final date of registration may not be earlier than ten days before the Meeting.

Shareholders may attend the Meeting themselves or through an authorised agent. An agent must present a proxy document or prove in another reliable way his/her entitlement to act as an agent for the shareholder.

Previous General meetings