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Annual General Meeting
The Royal Dutch Shell plc Annual General Meeting was organised Tuesday May 19, 2009 in The Hague with an audio-visual link to a satellite meeting place in London. Below the voting results, a link to the speeches by Jorma Ollila and Jeroen van der Veer and the Notice of Meeting.
Voting results
Royal Dutch Shell plc (“the Company”) announces the poll results on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting held on 19th May, 2009 at Circustheater, Circusstraat 4, The Hague, The Netherlands with an audio-visual link to a satellite meeting place at The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, UK.
Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.2 two copies of all resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business at the Annual General Meeting today will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
| Resolution 1 : Adoption of Annual Report & Accounts | |||
| Votes for: | 3,301,631,965 | 99.90% | |
| Votes against: | 3,394,595 | 0.10% | |
| Votes withheld: | 16,026,721 | ||
Resolution 2 : Approval of Remuneration Report |
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| Votes for: | 1,295,183,971 | 40.58% | |
| Votes against: | 1,896,170,360 | 59.42% | |
| Votes withheld: | 129,487,396 | ||
Resolution 3 : Appointment of Simon Henry as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,280,593,069 | 99.38% | |
| Votes against: | 20,547,187 | 0.62% | |
| Votes withheld: | 16,171,326 | ||
Resolution 4 : Re-appointment of Lord Kerr of Kinlochard as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,161,974,849 | 97.61% | |
| Votes against: | 77,443,311 | 2.39% | |
| Votes withheld: | 77,876,289 | ||
Resolution 5 : Re-appointment of Wim Kok as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,299,530,621 | 99.66% | |
| Votes against: | 11,201,446 | 0.34% | |
| Votes withheld: | 6,561,880 | ||
Resolution 6 : Re-appointment of Nick Land as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,277,454,277 | 98.99% | |
| Votes against: | 33,298,843 | 1.01% | |
| Votes withheld: | 6,532,929 | ||
Resolution 7 : Re-appointment of Jorma Ollila as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,267,776,286 | 98.70% | |
| Votes against: | 42,991,822 | 1.30% | |
| Votes withheld: | 6,543,725 | ||
Resolution 8 : Re-appointment of Jeroen van der Veer as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,285,320,691 | 99.23% | |
| Votes against: | 25,469,685 | 0.77% | |
| Votes withheld: | 6,488,027 | ||
Resolution 9 : Re-appointment of Hans Wijers as a Director of the Company |
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| Votes for: | 3,300,612,841 | 99.69% | |
| Votes against: | 10,145,470 | 0.31% | |
| Votes withheld: | 6,523,935 | ||
Resolution 10 : Re-appointment of Auditors |
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| Votes for: | 3,166,725,143 | 96.14% | |
| Votes against: | 127,304,917 | 3.86% | |
| Votes withheld: | 13,781,614 | ||
Resolution 11 : Remuneration of Auditors |
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| Votes for: | 3,169,442,058 | 96.18% | |
| Votes against: | 126,049,344 | 3.82% | |
| Votes withheld: | 12,292,164 | ||
Resolution 12: Authority to allot shares |
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| Votes for: | 3,243,408,838 | 98.54% | |
| Votes against: | 48,169,573 | 1.46% | |
| Votes withheld: | 16,197,850 | ||
Resolution 13: Disapplication of pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) |
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| Votes for: | 3,244,915,494 | 98.60% | |
| Votes against: | 46,060,458 | 1.40% | |
| Votes withheld: | 16,801,768 | ||
Resolution 14: Authority to purchase own shares (Special Resolution) |
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| Votes for: | 3,225,150,091 | 97.96% | |
| Votes against: | 67,262,494 | 2.04% | |
| Votes withheld: | 15,359,768 | ||
Resolution 15: Authority for certain donations and expenditure |
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| Votes for: | 3,141,872,827 | 96.88% | |
| Votes against: | 101,117,285 | 3.12% | |
| Votes withheld: | 57,541,756 | ||
Please note that a ‘vote withheld’ is not a vote under English Law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes ‘for’ and ‘against’ a resolution.
May 19, 2009
Speeches
Speeches delivered by Jorma Ollila, Chairman and Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive at the Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell plc in The Hague and London on 19 May, 2009.
Notice of Meeting
The Notice of Meeting is available online and as PDF download.
Online
- Notice of Meeting
- Chairman's letter
- Notice of Meeting Resolutions
- Explanatory notes on the resolutions
- Shareholder notes
- Biographies
- Attendance The Hague
- Attendance London
- Shell Annual Reports
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