10th May 2005 11:04
Telefonica SA10 May 2005 SEQ CHAPTER /h /r 1 SEQ CHAPTER /h /r 1 NOTICE OF CORPORATE ACTION In compliance with article 82 of Law 24/1988, July 29, of the Securities MarketLaw and related provisions, and in order to make public a Notice of CorporateAction, Telefonica, S.A. hereby informs that the General Ordinary Shareholders'Meeting of its subsidiary Telefonica Moviles was held on first call on May 6thwith the assistance either personally or through representation of shareholdersowner of 4,028,364,183 shares representing 93.022% of the share capital. The mentioned General Meeting approved all the resolutions that the Board ofDirectors submitted to its consideration and approval. Please find below theapproved resolutions. GENERAL ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS MEETING -TELEFONICA MOVILES, S.A. Resolutions Passed I) Review and approval, if pertinent, of the Financial Statements and of theManagement Report of both "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." and its Consolidated Groupof Companies as well as of the Proposal for Allocation of the Results of "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." and of the management of its Board of Directors, allpertaining to Fiscal Year 2004. 1) Approve the Financial Statements (Balance Sheet, Profit-and-Loss Statement and Notes to the Financial Statement) and the Management Reports of "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." and of its Consolidated Group of Companies, pertaining to Fiscal Year 2004 (closed on December 31 of said year) drafted by the Board of Directors in its meeting held on February 22nd, 2005, as well as of the corporate management carried out by the Board of Directors of "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." during said Fiscal Year. In the Individual Financial Statements, the Balance Sheet at December 31st, 2004 shows assets and liabilities for an amount of 15,905,217 thousand euros each of them and the Profit and Loss Statements at the end of the Fiscal year reflects a benefit of 854,379 thousand euros In the Consolidated Financial Statements, the Balance Sheet at 31st, December 2004, shows assets and liabilities for an amount of 23,570,914 thousand euros each of them and Profit and Loss Statements at the end of the year reflects a benefit of 1,633,910 thousand euros 2) Approve the following Proposal for Allocations of Results pertaining to Fiscal year 2004. To allot the profits earned by Telefonica Moviles, S.A. during fiscal year 2004, amounting to 854,378,556.54 euros to: • 835,796,322.93 euros, as a maximum, to payment of a dividend (amount to be distributed corresponding to a fix dividend of 0.193 euros/ share for each of all the 4,330,550,896 shares in which the share capital of the Company is divided) • The remaining profits, (18,582,233.61 euros as a minimum) to a Voluntary Reserve. II) Shareholder's remuneration: dividend payment against profits for the Fiscalyear 2004. Approve the payment of a cash dividend, with a charge to profits for the Fiscalyear 2004, for a fix amount of 0.193 euros gross, to each of the Company'scurrent issued and outstanding shares, with a right to collect said dividend. Payment will be made on June 15th, 2005, through the entities participating inthe securities and clearing institution "Iberclear". Over the gross amounts to be paid, the retentions requested by applicationlegislation will be applied. III) Reelection, confirmation and appointment, if necessary, of Directors. Approve the reelection as members of the Board of Directors of TelefonicaMoviles S.A., of Mr. Javier Echenique Landiribar and Mr. Jose MariaAlvarez-Pallete Lopez for a new term of 5 years in accordance with theprovisions of Article 17 of the Company Bylaws. IV) Appointment of the Company's Auditor and of its Consolidated Group ofCorporations, pursuant to article 42 of Commercial Code and article 204 of theSpanish Company Law Appoint the firm "Ernst & Young, S.L.," for an initial period of three years, asAccounts Auditor for the verification of the Financial Statements and ManagementReports of "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." and of its Consolidated Group ofCorporations, pertaining to Fiscal Years 2005, 2006 and 2007. V) Authorization for the acquisition of its own shares, directly or through aCompany in the Group. A) Authorize, pursuant to Articles 75 and following of current Corporations Act, the acquisition, at any time and as many times and deemed advisable, by Telefonica Moviles, S.A.-either directly, or through any of the affiliated corporations of which it is the controlling corporation of its own shares, through purchase-sale agreements or under any other legal onerous form. The minimum price or consideration for acquisition shall be equivalent to the par value of its own shares that are being acquired, and the maximum price or consideration shall be equivalent to the quoted value of the own shares acquired on an official secondary market at the time of acquisition Said authorization shall be granted for a period of 18 months reckoned as of the date that the present Meeting is held, and it is expressly subject to the restriction that the par value of the own shares acquired in the exercise of this authorization, together with the par value of those already possessed by "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." and any of the affiliated corporations controlled by it, may not at any time exceed 5%of its capital stock at the time of acquisition. Furthermore, the restrictions stipulated for share buybacks by the regulatory authorities of the markets where "Telefonica Moviles, S.A." shares are traded must be observed. It is expressly stated for the record that the authorization granted to acquire own shares may be used in full or in part for the acquisition of shares of "Telefonica Moviles, S.A.", which the latter must deliver or transfer to directors or to employees of the company or of corporations within the Group, directly or as a result of the exercise of stock options by the latter, all within the framework of compensation systems benchmarked to the quoted value of the Company's shares as approved in due form. B) Empower the Board of Directors in the widest terms to exercise the authorization that is the subject of this resolution and to carry out the rest of the provisions contained herein, with said powers being delegable by the Board of Directors upon the Delegated Committee, the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors or on any other person that the Board of Directors expressly empowers for this purpose. C) Void, to the extent that it has not been executed, the resolution adopted in this regard by the Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting of the corporation held on April 16st, 2004, regarding Item IV of the Agenda thereof. VI) Delegation of faculties to formalize, interpret, correct and execute theresolutions adopted by the General Shareholders Meeting. To severally and jointly empower the Executive Chairman of the Board ofDirectors, the Secretary-Director of the Board of Directors, and theVice-secretary non Director of the Board of Directors, in order for any of themto formalize and execute the preceding resolutions, being able for said purposeto execute the public or private instruments that may be necessary or convenient(including those for interpretation, clarification, rectification of errors orcuring of defects) for their most exact compliance and for the recordingthereof, insofar as mandatory, in the Mercantile Registry or in any otherPublic Registry. *** This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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