Press Release
TIM:
Shareholders Meeting called
Combined meeting on 29
March 2019 to review the financial statements and consider the
topics contained in shareholder Vivendis request
Rome, 14 January 2019
As announced on 21 December last, the Board of Directors met today to complete its analysis of the request that a shareholders meeting be called
received from Vivendi S.A. on 14 December 2018.
The request was granted, with the consequent inclusion of the topics the shareholder requested be
dealt with in the agenda of a combined meeting to be held on 29 March 2019 that is also called, simultaneously, to review of the financial statements for the year to 31 December 2018 and the remuneration report.
In taking this decision by a majority vote, the Board of Directors considered the motivations the shareholder has given for making this request, and the
companys interest in a (single) meeting to discuss the various issues the shareholders are called to resolve on, so as to:
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facilitate the completion of the processes to approve and disclose the strategic plan, the related impairment
test on goodwill and hence the financial statements, and thus
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ensure that the shareholders have a proper and adequate information set,
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while also promoting the greatest possible participation in a shareholders meeting, in which there is likely to be a substantial confrontation on what
the industrial future of the Company is to be and on the people its management should be entrusted to.
In order to grant the shareholders request,
it has been decided to accelerate the corporate calendar with reference to the meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the financial statements and the Ordinary Shareholders Meeting, so as to address the shareholders need.
However, the obvious
non-availability
at present of the results of TIM S.p.A. for the 2018 financial
year requires us to reserve the right to add the topic of the distribution of the dividend, which will be decided once the draft financial statements are available, to the agenda for the shareholders meeting at a later date. The review of the
draft financial statements has been brought forward from 26 February (as stated in the previously disclosed financial calendar) to 21 February 2019.
The call notice for the Shareholders Meeting, shareholder Vivendis report on the topics that it has asked to be discussed, the considerations of
the Board of Directors on the initiative and the recommendation of TIMs Board of Statutory Auditors for the appointment of the external auditor of the accounts for the nine year period 2019-2027 are about to be published on the Company website
www.telecomitalia.com
. The remaining
pre-meeting
documentation will be published in due course, at the time prescribed by law.
In light of the above, TIMs financial calendar for 2019 is updated as follows:
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21 February 2019
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Board of Directors meeting to approve the draft financial statements for the year and the consolidated financial reports at 31 December 2018;
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29 March 2019
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Shareholders Meeting to approve the Financial Statements at 31 December 2018
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20 May 2019
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Board of Directors meeting to approve the interim report on operations at 31 March 2019
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1 August 2019
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Board of Directors meeting to approve the report at 30 June 2019
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7 November 2019
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Board of Directors meeting to approve the interim report on operations at 30 September 2019
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