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Rights Related to the Meeting of the General Assembly

Article 1: Preamble

General Shareholders Assemblies of the Company are  competent in all of its affairs. A duly-constituted General Assembly represents all shareholders in exercising their powers in respect of the Company. The General Assembly shall exercise its role in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations and the Company's bylaws.

Article 2: Competencies of the Extraordinary General Assembly

The Extraordinary General Assembly shall have the following Competencies:

  1. amending the Company’s bylaws, except for amendments which are deemed null and void pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Law;
  2. increasing the Company’s share capital in accordance with the situations provided by the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations;
  3. decreasing the Company’s share capital if it exceeds the Company’s needs or in the event the Company incurs financial losses, in accordance with the situations provided by the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations;
  4. resolving to form a consensual reserve for the Company as provided for in its bylaws to be set aside for a specific purpose, and the disposal thereof;
  5. resolving to maintain or liquidate the Company before the end of the term specified in its bylaws;
  6. approving the Company's shares buy-back;
  7. issuing preferred shares or approving their buying, or converting ordinary shares into preferred shares or converting preferred shares into ordinary shares as per the Company's bylaws and the Regulatory Rules and Procedures issued pursuant to the Companies Law related to Listed Joint Stock Companies;
  8. issuing debt instruments or financing deeds convertible into shares, and stating the maximum number of shares that may be issued against these instruments or deeds;
  9. allocate Shares that are issued upon the capital increase or part of them for the employees of the Company, and its affiliates or some of them, or any of them; and
  10. suspending preemptive rights of shareholders in subscribing for the capital increase in exchange for cash or giving priority to non-shareholders in cases as deemed in the interest of the Company if so is provided for in the Company's bylaws.

The Extraordinary General Assembly may issue resolutions that fall within the powers of the Ordinary General Assembly, provided that such resolutions are issued in accordance with the issuance requirements of Ordinary General Assembly resolutions which require that the absolute majority of shares be represented at the meeting.

Article 3: Competencies of the Ordinary General Assembly

Except for the competencies reserved to the Extraordinary General Assembly, the Ordinary General Assembly shall have competencies in all affairs of the Company, and particularly the following:

  1. appointing and dismissing Board members;
  2. permitting a Board member to have direct or indirect interest in the business and contracts that are executed for the Company's account, in compliance with the provisions of the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations;
  3. permitting a Board member to take part in any activities that may lead to competition with the Company, or competition in any of its activities, in compliance with the provisions of the Companies Law and its Implementing Regulations;
  4. monitoring the compliance of the Board members with the provisions of the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations and other relevant laws and the Company’s bylaws; inspecting any damage that may occur as a result of their violation of such provisions or mismanagement of the affairs of the Company; determine the liability resulting therefrom and undertaking the procedures it deems proper in this regard pursuant to the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations;
  5. forming the audit committee pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations;
  6. approving the Company's financial statement ;
  7. approving the Board report;
  8. deciding on the proposals of the Board with respect to the method of distributing the net profits;
  9. appointing the external auditors of the Company, specifying their remunerations, reappointing them, replacing them and approving their reports;
  10. looking into the violations and errors committed by the external auditors of the Company when performing their duties and any difficulties, reported by the Company’s external auditors, regarding their empowerment by the Company’s Board or Management to review the books, records and other documents, statements and clarifications required to perform their duties, and respond to that as it deems appropriate in this regard;
  11. resolving to withhold from setting aside statutory reserve when it reaches an amount equal to (30%) of the Company’s paid share capital, and resolving to distribute the surplus of such percentage to the Company’s shareholders in financial years where the Company does not generate net profits;
  12. using the Company’s consensual reserve, if such has not been set aside for a specific purpose, provided that using such reserve shall be based on a proposal submitted by the Board and used in ways that benefit the Company or the shareholders;
  13. forming other reserves besides the statutory reserve and consensual reserve and disposal of the same;
  14. setting aside amounts from the Company’s net profits to set up social organisations for  the  benefit  of  the  Company’s  employees  or  to  assist  any  such  existing establishments in accordance with Article (129) of the Companies Law; and
  15. approving the sale of more than (50%) of the assets of the Company, whether in one or several transactions within a period of 12 months from the date of the first selling transaction. In case selling these assets includes what falls within the powers of the Extraordinary General Assembly, the approval of the said Assembly is required.

Article 4: Shareholders' Assembly

  • The Ordinary General assembly shall convene in accordance with the situations and circumstances stated in the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations and the Company’s bylaws.
  • The Ordinary General Assembly shall convene at least once per year within the six months following the end of the Company's financial year.
  • The General and Special Shareholders' Assemblies shall convene upon an invitation from the Board in accordance with the situations stated in the Companies Law and Its Implementing Regulations and the Company’s bylaws. The Board shall invite the Ordinary General Assembly to convene upon the request of the external auditor, the audit committee or a number of shareholders holding shares equal to at least (5%) of the share capital of the Company. The external auditor may invite the assembly to convene if the Board does not invite the assembly within thirty days from the date of the external auditor's request.
  • The date, place and agenda of the General Assembly shall be announced at least ten days prior to the date thereof; the invitation shall be published on the website of the Exchange, the Company's website and in a daily newspaper distributed in the province where the Company's head office is located. The Company may invite the General and Special Shareholders' Assemblies to convene using  methods of contemporary technologies.
  • The Company may amend the agenda of the General Assembly within a period between publishing the announcement referred to in paragraph (d) of this Article and the date of convening the General Assembly meeting, provided that the Company shall announce this as prescribed in paragraph (d) of this Article.
  • Shareholders shall be granted the opportunity to effectively participate and vote in the General Assembly meetings. The meetings of the General Assemblies of shareholders may be convened and shareholders may participate in their deliberations and vote on their resolutions using methods of contemporary technologies pursuant to the Regulatory Rules and Procedures issued pursuant to the Companies Law related to Listed Joint Stock Companies.
  • The Board shall work on facilitating the participation of the largest number of shareholders in the meetings of the General Assembly, including choosing the appropriate place and time of such meeting.
  • The Company shall ensure recording the details of the shareholders who desire to attend at the Company's head office prior to the specified time for convening the assembly, unless the Company's bylaw state other means.

Article 5: The Agenda of the General Assembly

  • When preparing the General Assembly’s agenda, the Board shall take into consideration the matters that the shareholders wish to list; shareholders holding no less than (5%) of the Company’s shares are entitled to add one or more items to the agenda upon its preparation.
  • The Board shall separate each of the matters listed in the agenda of the General Assembly meeting as an independent item, and not combine significantly different matters under one item, and not combine the businesses and contracts in which Board members have a direct or indirect interest under one item, for the purpose of obtaining the shareholders’ vote for the item as a whole.
  • The shareholders shall be allowed through the Company's website and the Exchange's website, when the invitation for the convention of the General Assembly is published, to obtain the information related to the items of the General Assembly's agenda, particularly the reports of the Board and the external auditor, the financial statements and the audit committee’s Report in order to enable them to make an informed decision in this regard. The Company shall update this information in case the General Assembly's agenda was amended.
  • The Authority may add any items it deems appropriate to the agenda of the General Assembly.

Article 6: Management of the Shareholders' Assembly

  • The Shareholders' General Assembly meetings shall be chaired by the chairman, his deputy (if the chairman is absent) or whom is delegated by the Board of directors of its members (when the chairman and his deputy are absent).
  • The chairman of the Shareholders' Assembly shall commit to grant the shareholders the opportunity to effectively participate and vote in the meetings of the General Assembly,, and avoid any procedure that may preventing their attendance to the assemblies or the exercise of the voting right. Shareholders shall be informed of the rules governing such meetings and the voting procedures.
  • Shareholders are entitled to discuss matters listed in the agenda of the General Assembly and raise relevant questions to the Board members and to the external auditor. The Board or the external auditor shall answer the questions raised by shareholders to the extent that does not jeopardise the Company’s interest.
  • Shareholders shall be granted access to the minutes of the General Assembly meeting; and the Company shall provide the Authority with a copy of such minutes within (10) days of the date of any such meeting.
  • A Company shall announce to the public and inform the Authority and the Exchange, as per the rules prescribed by the Authority, of the results of a General Assembly meeting immediately following its conclusion.

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