Regular meeting of Gazprom Board of Directors to take place May 18 

 

RELEASE

A regular meeting of the Gazprom Board of Directors will take place on May 18, at 9:30am Moscow time. The meeting agenda is scheduled to include the following items:

• Identification of the Gazprom annual General Shareholders Meeting time, venue and postal address for filled out voting ballots;
• Approval of the Gazprom annual General Shareholders Meeting agenda;
• the Gazprom annual General Shareholders Meeting Presidium and Chairman;
• List of information (materials) distributed among shareholders in the course of preparation for the Gazprom annual General Shareholders Meeting and disclosure rules;
• Rules of shareholders notification of the annual General Shareholders Meeting;
• Ballot format and wording for voting on the agenda items of the Gazprom annual General Shareholders Meeting;
• Gazprom draft Annual Report for 2008;
• Distribution of Gazprom net profit arisen within 2008;
• Recommendations on the amount of, time for and the form of payment of annual dividends on the Company’s shares ;
• Gazprom (parent company) annual financial accounts for 2008 filed in accordance with the Russian legislation;
• Gazprom Board of Directors and Audit Commission’s remuneration;
• Results of the open tender among auditors to perform statutory annual audit of Gazprom in 2009;
• Progress in Gazprom’s strategy for liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and supply;
• Efficiency of Gazprom’s major financial investments in oil business based on the operational results for 2008;
• On Gazprom’s risk management system operation and the major risks faced by the Company under the conditions of the global financial crisis.