The Company has a policy to support, promote and facilitate all shareholders, ensuring that all groups to receive fundamental rights, as both investors in securities and as owners of the Company, through accepted methods and standards. Shareholders are entitled to fair treatment by providing the rights to receive a share of the Company’s profits, participation to the shareholders’ meeting, proposal of agenda items in advance, and nomination of candidates for the Board of Directors. Shareholders also have the right to express opinions in meetings, make decisions on significant Company matters-such as, electing directors, appointing auditors, determining of audit fees, approving of important transactions that affect the Company’s business operations, the amendmending of the Memorandum of Association of the Company’s regulations. In this regard, all shareholders have the right to vote in proportion to the number of shares they hold, with each share representing one vote. No share carry a special privileges over other shareholders.
In addition to the above basic rights, the Company also has policies to promote and facilitate the shareholders' rights, including:
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Providing detailed and timely information regarding general shareholders' meeting, including the time, venue, agenda procedures and relevant documentation. This ensures that shareholdres are well informed and can effectively exercise their rights. Important information necessary for consideration, opinions of the Board of Directors, minutes of the previous meeting, annual report, proxy forms, and clearly specifying the method of proxy granting. The company should send supporting documents for the meeting to shareholders at least 14 days in advance of the shareholders' meeting so that shareholders receive sufficient, correct, complete, and transparent information for making decisions on voting, and prepare to grant proxy in case they are unable to attend the meeting in person. - In the event that a shareholder is unable to attend the meeting in person, the Company allows the shareholder to grant a proxy to an independent director or any person to attend the meeting on their behalf.
- In the shareholders' meeting, the Company provides a meeting venue that is large enough to accommodate the number of shareholders, with security, and prepared to handle emergencies.
- Announce details of the general shareholders' meeting in a newspaper for 3 consecutive days at least 14 days before the meeting to inform shareholders of the general shareholders' meeting in advance so that they can prepare to attend the meeting.
- Do not do anything that would limit the shareholders' right to attend the meeting. Every shareholder has the right to attend the shareholders' meeting throughout the meeting, has the right to ask questions, offer opinions to the meeting according to the meeting agenda and the matters proposed, and vote on the meeting agenda. Record important issues that have been asked and explained in the meeting report so that shareholders who do not attend the meeting are informed. The meeting chairman should allocate appropriate time and encourage the expression of opinions and questions in the meeting.
- Specify the voting system for the election of directors, where shareholders have the right to vote individually or as a group, but the number of votes will not be separated. Voting system must use methods and voting equipment that are transparent, convenient, fast, and efficient, able to show the voting results quickly, and shareholders can be informed of the resolution in a timely manner.
- Transparency of the shareholders' meeting resolutions to the public regarding the voting results for each agenda item via the SET Portal system of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. cannot separate
- Prepare a report of the shareholders' meeting and notify the Stock Exchange of Thailand within 14 days after the meeting date in accordance with the requirements of the Stock Exchange of Thailand and publish the minutes of the meeting in a complete and appropriate manner, including the minutes of the meeting, voting and questions of shareholders in each agenda in detail, and publish the minutes of the meeting for shareholders to acknowledge on the Company's website.
- The Board of Directors, including the special committees and the Company Secretary must attend every shareholder meeting if they are not busy with important tasks to answer questions and listen to shareholders' opinions. All senior executives also attend shareholder meetings to answer questions.
