In its meeting held on 27 February 2024, the Board of Directors approved the amendment of the Company’s By-laws pursuant to the authority delegated by the stockholders of the Company to the Board at the stockholders’ meeting held on 28 June 2017. The amendments consisted of clauses to align with the provisions of the Revised Corporation Code and conducting stockholders’ and directors’ meetings through remote communication and allowing stockholders and directors to vote in the said meetings in absentia or electronically, to wit: 1. Article II, Sec. 4 – to update the applicable legal provision in the Revised Corporation Code for the issuance of new stock certificates in lieu of lost, mutilated and destroyed stock certificates; 2. Art. III, Sec. 1 – to allow the conduct of stockholders’ meetings through remote communication; 3. Art. III, Sec. 3 – Inclusion of the provision on the right of stockholders holding at least ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation to call a special stockholders’ meeting; 4. Art. III, Sec. 4 – to authorize the sending out of notices of stockholders’ meetings through publication or through remote communication and and inclusion of the twenty-one-day notice rule for stockholders’ meetings; 5. Art. III, Sec. 5 – to allow participation and voting in stockholders’ meetings through remote communication or in absentia or electronically to be counted for purposes of determining the quorum; 6. Art. III, Sec. 6 – to allow stockholders attending through remote communication to participate in choosing a Chairman of the meeting in the absence of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman; 7. Art. III, Sec. 7 – to allow stockholders to vote in absentia or electronically or by other means as may be authorized by the Board of Directors, and to correct minor typographical errors in the provision; 8. Art. III, Sec. 8 – to allow stockholders to vote in absentia or electronically or by other means as may be authorized by the Board of Directors; 9. Art. IV, Sec. 6 – to allow directors attending meetings through remote communication to be counted for purposes of determining the quorum, and to authorize voting through remote communication or in absentia or electronically or other means as may be allowed by law; 10. Art. IV, Sec. 7 – to authorize the conduct of directors’ meetings through remote communication; 11. Art. IV, Sec. 10 – to allow the sending out of notices of special meetings of the Board of Directors through electronic mail, digital messaging or other forms of remote communication, and to correct minor typographical errors in the provision; and, 12. Art. VI, Sec. 1 – to include Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Corporate Secretary in the list of officers of the Company. |