Corporate governance
Articles of Association
Enzymatica AB (publ)
556719-9244
§ 1 Business name
The company’s business name is Enzymatica AB (publ).
§ 2 Registered office
The Board of Directors shall have its registered office in the municipality of Lund.
§ 3 Object of the company
The company’s business shall be to carry out research and development as well as sales in the field of innovative products based on enzyme technology and business related thereto.
§ 4 Share capital
The share capital shall amount to no less than 5,700,000 Swedish kronor (SEK) and no more than 22,800,000 Swedish kronor (SEK).
§ 5 Number of shares
The number of shares shall be not less than 142,500,000 and not more than 570,000,000.
§ 6 Board of Directors
The Board of Directors shall consist of no less than three and no more than ten ordinary members with no more than ten deputies. The board of directors shall be elected at a general meeting for the period up to and including the annual meeting held the year after the board member was elected.
§ 7 Auditors
The company shall elect 1–2 auditors with or without deputies.
§ 8 Notice
Notice convening a general meeting shall be published in the official announcement organ Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and at the company’s website. The fact that notice to attend a shareholders’ meeting has been announced shall be published in the newspaper Dagens Industri.
§ 9 Annual General Meeting
A general meeting shall be held annualy within 6 months after the end of the financial year. The following matters shall be addressed in the course of the annual general meeting:
Election of chairman of the general meeting;
Drafting and approval of the voting list;
Election of one or two persons to certify the minutes;
Consideration as to whether the meeting has been properly convened;
Approval of the agenda of the meeting;
Presentation of the annual report and the auditor’s report and, when applicable, the consolidated accounts and the auditor’s report on the consolidated accounts;
Resolutions regarding
adoption of the profit and loss statement and the balance sheet and, when applicable, the consolidated profit and loss statement and the consolidated balance sheet,
appropriation of the company’s profit or loss in accordance with the adopted balance sheet,
the Board of Directors’ and the managing director’s discharge from liability;
Determination of remuneration to the members of the board and the auditors;
Decision on
the members of the Board of Directors and deputies,
the auditors and auditor’s deputies if appropriate;
the Board of Directors’ and the managing director’s discharge from liability;
Other matters, which are to be considered by the general meeting according to the Swedish Companies Act or the Articles of Association
At a general meeting, each shareholder may vote for the full number of shares represented by him without any restrictions in the number of votes.
§ 10 Financial year
The financial year of the company shall coincide with the calendar year.
§ 11 The right for participating in a general meeting
A shareholder who wants to take part in the negotiations at a general meeting shall notify the company of the intention to attend no later than on the day that is set forth in the notice convening the general meeting. The last mentioned day shall not be a Sunday, other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer’s Eve, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve and shall not occur earlier than on the fifth weekday prior to the general meeting.
A shareholder may be accompanied by assistants at a general meeting only where the shareholder has given the company notice of the number of assistants (not more than two) as specified in the previous paragraph.
§ 12 Collection of powers of attorneys and vote by post
The board of directors may collect powers of attorney in accordance with the procedure described in Chapter 7, section 4, second paragraph of the Companies Act (2005:551).
The board of directors has the right before a general meeting to decide that shareholders shall be able to exercise their right to vote by post before the general meeting.
§ 13 The Right for persons not being shareholders to attend a general meeting
The board of directors may resolve that persons not being shareholders of the company shall be entitled, on the conditions stipulated by the board of directors, to attend or in any other manner follow the discussions at a general meeting.
§ 14 Record day provision
The shares of the company shall, in accordance with the Swedish Central Securities Depositories and Financial Instruments Act (1998:1479), be registered in a record day register.
These Articles of Association were adopted at the annual general meeting on 5 May 2021.