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Annual General Meeting

Royal Dutch Shell plc (“the Company”) announces the Poll results on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting held on 20th May, 2008 at Circustheater, Circusstraat 4, The Hague, The Netherlands with an audio-visual satellite meeting place at The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London.

Voting results

A Poll was held on each resolution. All resolutions were carried.


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 2,987,998,808 99.73%
 Votes against 8,177,525 0.27%
 Votes withheld 4,669,221

Resolution 2 : Approval of Remuneration Report

 Votes for   2,636,559,071 92.05%
 Votes against   227,650,613 7.95%
 Votes withheld  136,538,986

Resolution 3 : Election of Dr.Josef Ackermann as a Director of the Company 

 Votes for 2,984,842,635 99.58%
 Votes against 12,590,793 0.42%
 Votes withheld 3,300,586

Resolution 4 : Re-election of Sir Peter Job as a Director of the Company

 Votes for 2,964,488,419 98.90%
 Votes against 32,982,282 1.10% 
 Votes withheld 3,264,807

Resolution 5 : Re-election of Lawrence Ricciardi as a Director of the Company

 Votes for 2,843,257,181 94.86%
 Votes against 154,177,642 5.14%
 Votes withheld 3,290,762

Resolution 6 : Re-election of Peter Voser as a Director of the Company
 Votes for 2,981,552,509 99.47%
 Votes against 15,916,815 0.53%
 Votes withheld 3,247,022

Resolution 7 : Re-appointment of Auditors

 Votes for 2,847,879,535 95.07%
 Votes against 147,577,952 4.93%
 Votes withheld 5,255,517

Resolution 8 : Remuneration of Auditors
 Votes for 2,845,569,780  94.94%
 Votes against 151,509,277 5.06%
 Votes withheld 3,634,482

Resolution 9 : Authority to allot shares

 Votes for 2,959,407,402 98.80%
 Votes against 36,075,027 1.20%
 Votes withheld 5,205,388

Resolution 10: Disapplication of pre-emption rights (Special Resolution)

 Votes for 2,972,118,280 99.26%
 Votes against 22,086,110 0.74%
 Votes withheld 6,498,968

Resolution 11: Authority to purchase own shares (Special Resolution)

 Votes for 2,985,691,195 99.65%
 Votes against 10,579,594 0.35%
 Votes withheld  3,958,993

Resolution 12: Authority for certain donations and expenditure

 Votes for 2,868,921,198 96.80%
 Votes against 94,759,380 3.20%
 Votes withheld 36,501,326

Resolution 13: Amendments to Long-term Incentive Plan

 Votes for 2,647,332,289 89.05%
 Votes against 325,363,986 10.95%
 Votes withheld 27,802,464

Resolution 14: Amendments to Restricted Share Plan

 Votes for 1,517,884,288 68.24%
 Votes against 706,398,270 31.76%
 Votes withheld 776,213,431

Resolution 15: Adoption of new Articles of Association (Special Resolution)

 Votes for 2,894,845,326 98.41%
 Votes against 46,871,330 1.59%
 Votes withheld 58,771,001



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.


 

Speeches held at the Annual General Meeting

The following text is based on speeches delivered by Jorma Ollila and Jeroen van der Veer at the Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell plc in The Hague and London on 20 May, 2008.


 

Notice of Meeting


Both versions can be downloaded as PDF documents. The English version can also be read online.

English
Notice of Meeting in English online
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Dutch
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