The Board of Directors of the Company convened the Annual General Meeting of the Company on March 6, 2020 for 11:00 am on April 8, 2020 (hereinafter: the “AGM”). The Company announced on March 17, 2020 that due to the situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19) the AGM will not be held on its scheduled date. 

The Company hereby announces that – based on Section 9 (2) of Government Decree no. 102/2020. (IV. 10.) (hereinafter: the “Decree”) – the Board of Directors of the Company will decide in the matters set on the published agenda of the AGM. The date of the meeting of the Board of Directors deciding in the matters set on the agenda of the AGM is April 24, 2020 or - in case there is no quorum – April 28, 2020. 

The entitlement to exercise the shareholders’ rights set out in Sections 9 (6) and (7) of the Decree shall be established by way of the retroactive identification procedure ordered by the Company, the record date of which shall be April 1, 2020, in accordance with the originally published notice of the AGM. 

The identification procedure shall be carried out based on the data transferred by securities account managers to KELER Zrt. Shareholders shall be informed by their securities account managers on the data transfer, on prohibiting the registration in the Share Register and on requesting their deletion from the Share Register. The Company shall not be responsible for the consequences of any failure by any securities account manager. 

In accordance with the Decree, today the Company publishes without changes the general meeting submissions adopted earlier by the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board, respectively, and at the same time notifies the shareholders that – based on the Decree – the Board of Directors may deviate from the published resolution proposals in its decisions in the matters set on the published agenda of the AGM. 

The Company will publish further information on the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors in the matters set on the agenda of the AGM, as well as further regulated information related thereto. .

Magyar Telekom will not hold its Annual General Meeting on April 8, 2020

Due to the situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19), having regard to applicable laws (in particular Section 4 of Government Decree no. 46/2020 (III.16.)) and publicly available information, the Company hereby announces that it sees no possibility to hold its AGM on April 8, 2020.

This conclusion is fully in line with the Company’s commitment to the highest standards of social responsibility. In the current situation the Company’s primary concern is the health of its employees, shareholders, officers, partners and customers.

The fact that the AGM will not be held on its scheduled date will have an inevitable impact on the timing of the payout of the dividend for the 2019 business year and the implementation of the share buyback program initiated by the Board of Directors, as well as the timing of other corporate governance decisions.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in line with the standards of utmost transparency, today the Company will publish on its web site its audited 2019 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements, which the Board of Directors proposes for approval to the General Meeting.

The Company will continue to monitor the future improvement of circumstances concerning the epidemic and applicable laws, authority decisions and communication; and it will inform its Shareholders in due course regarding the new date, venue of and other information concerning the AGM.

Annual General Meeting - April 8, 2020

The Board of Directors of Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company hereby notifies the Distinguished Shareholders of the Company that it convenes its Annual General Meeting at 11.00 a.m. on April 8, 2020.