7.2 General Meeting of the Shareholders

The meeting's sovereignty: the general meeting as the shareholders' assembly — the capital's democracy (the one-share-one-vote's world, the proxies' accommodation, the modern e-voting faces). The types: the annual general meeting (AGM) — the year's statutory assembly (the accounts' approval, the dividends' declaration, the directors'-and-auditors' elections, the board's report's consideration); the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) — the special business's assembly (the urgent-and-fundamental matters: the capital's changes, the memorandum's amendment, the merger faces); the first/general meeting faces (the statutory first meeting's discipline where prescribed); the class meetings (the class rights' separate consents). The formalities: the convening's discipline (the notice's period-and-content; the authority's call — the board, the requisitionists' minority power, the court's faces); the quorum (the minimum attendance); the agenda's-and-proxies' machinery; the resolutions' grades — the ordinary resolution (the simple majority) vs the special resolution (the higher threshold — the fundamental matters' class); the poll-vs-show-of-hands' faces; the minutes' record; the meeting's defects (the notice's invalidity, the quorum's failure — the resolutions' challenge).