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Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of Nokian Tyres plc is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Invitation to the meeting will be sent later.

Shareholders’ proposals for issues to be addressed at the Annual General Meeting 2025

The shareholder shall submit the request for having a matter to be dealt with by the Annual General Meeting by March 6, 2025. Request shall be submitted by email to [email protected].

More information regarding AGM 2025 can be found here.

The Company’s highest decision-making power is held by the General Meeting, whose tasks and procedures are outlined in the Limited Liability Companies Act and the Articles of Association. The Annual General Meeting decides on such matters as the confirmation of the Company’s annual accounts, profit distribution, and discharging the Board of Directors and the President and CEO from liability. Furthermore, the Annual General Meeting decides on the number of members in the Board of Directors, the selection of the board members and the auditor, and their remuneration. In addition, the General Meeting can make decisions on questions such as amendments to the Articles of Association, share issues, granting warrants, and acquisition of the company’s own shares.

The Annual General Meeting is held by the end of May of each year on a date determined by the Board of Directors, either at the Company’s registered place of business or in the city of Tampere or Helsinki. An extraordinary general meeting is summoned whenever the Board considers this to be necessary or if an auditor or a group of shareholders with a holding of a total of at least one-tenth of all the shares in the Company requires it in writing in order to address a particular issue.

According to law, a shareholder has the right to have a matter falling within the competence of the General Meeting dealt with by the General Meeting, if the shareholder so demands in writing from the Board of Directors well in advance of the General Meeting, so that the matter can be mentioned in the notice to the meeting. The shareholder shall submit the request for having a matter to be dealt with by the General Meeting by the date indicated on the Company’s website.

The Articles of Association state that the notice of a General Meeting shall be published on the Company’s website. In addition, the Company publishes the notice of a General Meeting as a stock exchange release. The invitation lists the agenda of the meeting.

Articles of Association.

Shareholders are entitled to participate in the General Meeting if they are registered in the Company’s shareholders’ register, maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy, on the record date separately indicated by the Company. A holder of nominee registered shares can be temporarily registered in the shareholders’ register of the Company for purposes of participation in the General Meeting.

According to the Corporate Governance Code, the Chairman of the Board, the Board members and the President and CEO must be present at the General Meeting, and the auditor must be present at the Annual General Meeting. Board member candidates must be present at the General Meeting deciding on their election.

Previous Annual General Meetings

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024

The Annual General Meeting of Nokian Tyres plc was held on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (EEST) at Messukeskus Siipi conference center at the address Rautatieläisenkatu 3, 00520 Helsinki, Finland.

Important dates

Date	Time	Event
April 5, 2024	12:00 p.m.	Notice of the meeting was published
April 5, 2024	2:00 p.m.	Registration and advance voting began
April 18, 2024		Record date of the Annual General Meeting
April 24, 2024	4:00 p.m.	Registration and advance voting ended
April 25, 2024	10:00 a.m.	Deadline for registration and advance voting for holders of nominee registered shares
April 30, 2024	10:00 a.m.	Annual General Meeting, reception of the shareholders started at 8.30 a.m.
May 15, 2024		Minutes of the Annual General Meeting available on this page at the latest

Shareholders’ right to place items on the agenda of the General Meeting

The time for shareholders to request items on the agenda expired on March 8, 2024.

AGM materials can be loaded from the links below:

The annual general meeting on April 26, 2023

The Annual General Meeting 2023 was held on April 26, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. (EEST) at Messukeskus Siipi conference center at the address Rautatieläisenkatu 3, 00520 Helsinki, Finland.

Registration and advance voting from April 3, 2023 to April 20, 2023

Shareholders registered for the General Meeting could also follow the meeting via a webcast. Following the webcast was not considered to be official participation in the General Meeting and it was not possible to ask questions, make counterproposals, address the meeting otherwise, or vote via the webcast. The General Meeting was held in Finnish and it was simultaneously interpreted into English.

Important dates:
April 3, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. (EEST) Registration and advance voting begin
April 14, 2023 Record date of the Annual General Meeting
April 20, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. (EEST) Registration and advance voting end
April 26,2023 at 10:00 a.m. (EEST) Annual General Meeting; reception of the shareholders starts at 8.30 a.m. (EEST)
May 10, 2023 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting available on this page at the latest

The payment of dividend:
The Board of Directors proposed to the General Meeting that a dividend of EUR 0.35 per share be paid to the shareholders who were registered in the Company’s shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy on the dividend record date of April 28, 2023. The payment date proposed by the Board of Directors is May 11, 2023.

In addition, the Board of Directors proposed to the General Meeting that the Board of Directors be authorized to resolve on a dividend of a maximum of EUR 0.20 to be paid in December. The Board of Directors will resolve on the matter in its meeting scheduled for October 31, 2023. The Company will announce the Board of Directors’ decision on the possible second instalment and simultaneously confirm the relevant dividend record and payment date.

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Annual General Meeting 2022

The 2022 Annual General Meeting of Nokian Tyres plc was arranged on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (EET).

In order to ensure the health and safety of the shareholders, employees and other stakeholders of the Company, the General Meeting was organized without shareholders’ and their proxy representatives’ presence at the General Meeting venue.

The General Meeting could be followed via a video stream.

Counterproposals, right to ask questions and other information
Shareholders who hold at least one hundredth (1/100) of all shares in the Company had a right to make counterproposals on the agenda items for the General Meeting, to be put for a vote. Such counterproposals were to be sent to the Company no later than by April 5, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. (EET). No such counterproposals were delivered to the Company.

A shareholder had the right to ask questions with respect to the matters to be considered at the General Meeting no later than by April 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. (EET). Such questions by shareholders and responses to such questions by the Company’s Management Group are available here: Responses to the questions from shareholders

Request from shareholders to put matters on the agenda
Shareholders had to notify the Board of Directors of possible requests to put matters on the agenda of Nokian Tyres’ 2022 Annual General Meeting no later than on January 20, 2022 or four weeks prior to the publication of the notice of the Annual General Meeting whichever date is later.

The Chairman of the Board and the President and CEO attended the General Meeting but other management of the Company and the Auditor did not attend the General Meeting.

Speech by the Chairman of the Board (pdf)

A pre-recorded speech by the Company’s President and CEO is available below. The speech is not a part of the General Meeting.

Recording of the CEO’s presentation
CEO’s presentation (pdf)

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Annual General Meeting 2021

The 2021 Annual General Meeting was held through exceptional procedures on March 30, 2021 in Helsinki, Finland in accordance with the temporary legislative act to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic (677/2020), which entered into force on October 3, 2020.

Pre-recorded speeches by the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Company’s President and CEO are available below. The speeches were not a part of the General Meeting.

Recording of the speech by Chairman of the Board

Recording of the CEO’s presentation
CEO’s presentation (pdf)

Responses to the questions from shareholders

AGM materials can be loaded from the links below:

Annual General Meeting 2020

The Annual General Meeting 2020 was held on April 2, 2020 in Nokia, Finland under special arrangements.

Annual General Meeting 2019

The Annual General Meeting of Nokian Tyres plc was held on April 9, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Annual General Meeting 2018

The Annual General Meeting of Nokian Tyres plc was held on April 10, 2018 at 4 p.m.

Annual General Meeting 2017

Annual General Meeting 2016

Annual General Meeting 2015

Annual General Meeting 2014

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