29/06/2018

Press release: Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders Meeting makes decisions on agenda items

The annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom made decisions on the following agenda items.

The Meeting approved the Company's 2017 Annual Report and Accounting (Financial) Statements. It was resolved to allocate the Company's profit based on the results of 2017, as well as the profit that had not been distributed in the previous years.

The Meeting approved the dividend amount: RUB 8.04 per share based on Gazprom's operating results in 2017. The dividends make up 26.6 per cent of the profit attributable to Gazprom’s shareholders under International Financial Reporting Standards for 2017.

July 19, 2018, was set as the deadline for listing the persons entitled to receive dividends. Meanwhile, August 2, 2018, was endorsed as the deadline to receive dividends for the nominee shareholders and trustees who are stock market professionals recorded in the Register of Shareholders; for the rest of the registered shareholders, it is August 23, 2018. Those decisions fully comply with the Board of Directors' recommendations.

The Meeting approved FBK as Gazprom's Auditor for 2018. The company had won an open tender held by Gazprom.

The Meeting resolved to pay out the remuneration to the Gazprom Board of Directors and Audit Commission Members, who are not government officials or do not hold state civil service positions in the Russian Federation, in the amount recommended by the Board of Directors.

The Meeting approved the amendments to Gazprom’s Regulation on the General Shareholders Meeting.

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