Etihad Atheeb to open e-voting on general meeting items on Aug. 8

Etihad Atheeb Telecommunication Co. (GO) will start on August 8, 2020, adopting electronic voting on the agenda items of its extraordinary general assembly meeting (EGM) that will be held on August 10, according to a bourse filing on Thursday.

The step follows the Capital Market Authority’s (CMA) directives enabling shareholders to participate and vote on related meeting agenda through Tadawulaty system in line with the government’s efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

In July, the company invited shareholders to vote on audited financial statements and audit report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, as well as vote on discharging board members from liabilities for the same period.

In addition, they will vote on other items on the meeting’s agenda including appointing an external auditor to audit the company’s financial statements for Q2, Q3, and Q4 2021, as well as FY2020-2021 and Q1 2021-2022.

Meanwhile, they will vote on appointing Aziz Al-Qahtani (independent member) in the auditing committee as of March 15, 2020, and Eissa F. Ba-Eissa as independent board members as of March 26, 2020.

The general assembly will also vote on amending bylaws related board authorities and cash dividend policy.

Registered shareholders can vote online from 10am until 4pm, via http://www.tadawulaty.com.sa