4th May 2006 08:19
Rio Tinto PLC04 May 2006 Results of voting at 2006 Annual General Meetings of Rio Tinto plc and Rio TintoLimited The Annual General Meetings of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited were held on12 April 2006 and 4 May 2006 respectively. Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995, decisionson significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio TintoLimited in similar ways are voted on by a joint electoral procedure. The following ordinary resolutions, which were put to Rio Tinto plc and RioTinto Limited shareholders on a poll at the respective Annual General Meetings,were subject to the joint electoral procedure and the aggregate of the jointpolls were as follows: FOR AGAINSTTo elect Tom Albanese 788,995,063 955,272To elect Sir Rod Eddington 787,827,609 982,540To re-elect Sir David Clementi 785,705,651 3,090,273To re-elect Leigh Clifford 788,618,690 1,451,604To re-elect Andrew Gould 748,547,050 23,821,628To re-elect David Mayhew 777,658,148 12,353,168To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of Rio 779,301,957 10,152,964Tinto plc and to authorise the Audit committee to determinethe auditors' remunerationTo approve the Remuneration report 721,658,511 18,071,272To receive the Company's financial statements and the reports 750,849,906 2,213,309of the directors and auditors for the year ended 31 December2005 The following special resolutions were passed at the Rio Tinto Limited meetingheld on 4 May 2006. The results of the poll were as follows: FOR AGAINSTTo authorise the purchase of Rio Tinto Limited shares off 151,779,906 248,291market by tender and on market by Rio Tinto LimitedTo renew the authority for the purchase of Rio Tinto Limited's 151,517,209 494,639shares by itself from Rio Tinto plc The following special resolution required the separate approval of shareholdersof Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited. It was not put to the Rio Tinto Limitedmeeting as a number of shareholders had indicated some concerns about thesubject matter of that resolution. As the resolution was not approved by the publicly held shares of Rio TintoLimited, the holder of Rio Tinto plc's Special Voting Share voted against it, asrequired by the terms of Rio Tinto plc's Articles of Association and agreementsgoverning the operation of the DLC. Accordingly 360,442,512 votes were castagainst the Rio Tinto plc resolution by RTL Shareholder SVC Limited and so theresult of the poll on the Rio Tinto plc resolution was as follows: FOR AGAINSTTo adopt new articles of association of Rio Tinto plc and to 587,216,911 409,542,485make amendments to the constitution of Rio Tinto Limited Consequently, the resolution did not pass, as a special resolution requiresapproval by a 75 per cent majority. Prior to the exercise of the votes attached to the Special Voting Share, thevote on this resolution at the Rio Tinto plc meeting in London was: FOR587,216,911; AGAINST 49,099,973. For further information, please contact: LONDON AUSTRALIAMedia Relations Media RelationsNick Cobban Ian HeadOffice: +44 (0) 20 7753 2305 Office: +61 (0) 3 9283 3620Mobile: +44 (0) 7920 041 003 Mobile: +61 (0) 408 360 101 Investor Relations Investor RelationsNigel Jones Dave SkinnerOffice: +44 (0) 20 7753 2401 Office: +61 (0) 3 9283 3628Mobile: +44 (0) 7917 227365 Mobile: +61 (0) 408 335 309David Ovington Susie CreswellOffice: +44 (0) 20 7753 2326 Office: +61 (0) 3 9283 3639Mobile: +44 (0) 7920 010 978 Mobile: +61 (0) 418 933 792 Website: www.riotinto.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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