Articles of association
Amendments to the Articles of Association
10 May 2023
The articles of association were last modified by the extraordinary general meeting of 10 May 2023, as a result of the approval of the following agenda items:
- Authorisation to a share buy-back in view of hedging new stock options and insertion of an additional article in the Transitional provisions
- Authorisation to the board of directors to also use 397,396 shares, which were bought back under the authorisation of the extraordinary general meeting of May 11, 2016 (in view of the hedging of the 2016 Share Option Plan) and under other previous authorisations, to hedge stock options under new stock option plans and corresponding adjustment of the relevant article in the Transitional provisions.
- Authorisation to dispose own shares and insertion of an additional article in the Transitional provisions.
12 May 2021
The articles of association were last modified by the extraordinary general meeting of 12 May 2021, as a result of the approval of the following agenda items:
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Insertion of a new Article 34 regarding voting remotely prior to the general meeting;
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Amendment of new Article 36 regarding the way of deliberation by the general meeting;
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Authorisation to increase the share capital within the framework of the authorised capital and insertion of transitional decision n°2;
13 May 2020
The articles of association were last modified by the extraordinary general meeting of 13 May 2020, as a result of the approval of the following agenda items:
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Amendment of Article 22: representation of the Company;
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Insertion of a new Article regarding the participation to the general meeting and voting remotely by electronic means;
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Deletion of the expired authorisations to acquire own shares;
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Amendment of the articles of association to align with the new Companies and Associations Code.
11 May 2016
The extraordinary general meeting of 11 May 2016 modified the articles of association, as a result of the approval of the following agenda items:
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Change in the authorization granted by the extraordinary general meeting of 19 October 2012 as well as in previous authorizations;
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Authorization to buy back shares of the Company with a view to covering share options issued under the 2016 Share Option Plan;
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Revision of the Transitional Provisions to replace the current Transitional Provisions.
18 December 2014
The Board of Directors of 18 December 2014 modified the articles of association, following the destruction of own shares of Kinepolis Group NV. In pursuance of the authorization given by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Kinepolis Group NV of 19 October 2012, the Board of Directors of Kinepolis Group NV decided on 18 December 2014 to destroy 548,073 own shares, bringing the total number of outstanding shares to 27,365,197.
16 May 2014
The extraordinary general meeting of 16 May 2014 modified the articles of association, following the decision of the agenda: amend the first paragraph of Article 27 as follows: “The annual meeting takes place every second Wednesday of the month of May at 10.00 hours, to split as from 1 July 2014 each share of the Company in five new shares of the Company, so as from 1 July 2014 the share capital of the Company will be represented by 27,913,270 shares, without nominal value, each representing 1/27,913,270 of the share capital and as the transitional provision n°1 is not applicable anymore, the extraordinary general meeting decided to delete it.
18 December 2013
The Board of directors of 18 December 2013 modified the articles of association, following the destruction of own shares of Kinepolis Group NV. In pursuance of the authorization given by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Kinepolis Group of 19 October 2012, the Board of Directors of Kinepolis Group NV decided on 18 December 2012 to destroy 273,854 own shares, bringing the total number of outstanding shares to 5,582,654.
19 October 2012
The Extraordinary General Meeting of Kinepolis Group of 19 October 2012 approved a new authorization for the Board of Directors to buy back up to 1,171,301 own shares for destruction.
20 May 2011
In pursuance of the authorization given by the Extraordinary General Meeting of 20 May 2011, the Board of Directors of Kinepolis Group NV decided on 7 September 2012 to destroy 724,847 own shares, bringing the total number of outstanding shares to 5,856,508.
In pursuance of the authorization given by the Extraordinary General Meeting of 20 May 2011, the Board of Directors of Kinepolis Group NV decided on 14 December 2011 to destroy 349,423 own shares. From this date the total number of outstanding shares amounts 6,581,355.
The Extraordinary General Meeting of May 20, 2011 has decided to reduce the company's share capital by an amount equal to 30,010,268.74 euro and consequently pay back the shareholders 4.33 euro per share. From this date the total share capital amounts 18,952,288.41 euro.
12 February 2008
The Extraordinary General Meeting on February 12, 2008 renewed the authorization of the Board of Directors to acquire own shares or profit-sharing certificates in accordance with Article 620 of the Companies Code for the sole purpose to cover the options written out in compliance with the option plan approved by the board of directors on November 5th 2007.
18 May 2007
The Extraordinary General Meeting on May 18, 2007 renewed the authorization of the Board to increase the capital with a maximum of 48,883,132.15 €.