Ecopetrol Reports on the Decisions Adopted at the Shareholders' Meeting on March 22, 2024.
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. ((BVC: ECOPETROL, NYSE:EC) informs that during the ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting held on March 22, 2024, after giving notice to its shareholders and complying with the legal requirements to carry out the session, the shareholders cast their votes on each of the items on the agenda as follows:
Matter Submitted for Consideration of the Shareholders' Meeting | Voting for the first proposal to approve the agenda included in the call | Voting for the second proposal to remove item 16 (Election of members of the Board of Directors for the remainder of the 2021-2025 period) and item 17 (Presentation and approval of statutory reforms – modification of the corporate purpose) from the agenda | Vote for the third proposal to include the disclosure of the Control Risk Report on the agenda | Voting for the fourth proposal to (i) remove item 16 (Election of members of the Board of Directors for the remainder of the 2021-2025 period) and item 17 (Presentation and approval of statutory reforms – modification of the corporate purpose) from the agenda and (ii) include in the agenda the discussion of the performance of the President of Ecopetrol |
Approval of the agenda | 99.28% in favor | 0.001% in favor | 0.0008% in favor | 0.0043% in favor |
Matter Submitted for Consideration of the Shareholders' Meeting | Votes in favor | Votes against | Blank votes |
Appointment of the President of the General Shareholder´s meeting | 99.84 % | 0.002 % | 0.14 % |
Appointment of the Election and Reviewing Commission of the General Shareholder´s meeting | 99.94 % | 0.0006 % | 0.05 % |
Appointment of the Commission for the Review and Approval of the General Shareholder´s meeting Minutes | 99.99 % | 0.001 % | 0.0002 % |
Approval of the Report of the Board of Directors on its operation, development and compliance with the Code of Good Governance. | 99.96 % | 0.004 % | 0.034 % |
Approval of the integrated management report for the year 2023 | 99.05 % | 0.01 % | 0.93 % |
Approval of the audited, individual and consolidated Financial Statements | 99.05 % | 0.01 % | 0.93 % |
Note: The figures included in the table do not include all decimals, which will be included in the final text of the minutes of the assembly. Once all formal legal requirements are met and the minutes are registered in the commercial registry, Ecopetrol will inform the market about such process through these same means.
Matter Submitted for Consideration of the Shareholders' Meeting | Voting for the first proposal: to approve the payment of dividends to minority shareholders in 3 equal installments: April 25; September 26 and December 19. For the majority shareholder, payment is proposed to be made no later than December 31, 2024. | Voting for the second proposal: to approve the payment of dividends to minority shareholders in 2 equal installments payable on April 3 and June 26, 2024. For the majority shareholder, it is proposed to pay no later than December 31, 2024. |
Distribution of Dividends Project | 5.41% in favor | 94.54% in favor |
Note: The blank vote corresponded to 0.034%.
Matter Submitted for Consideration by the Shareholders' Meeting | Votes in favor | Votes against | Blank Votes |
Election of the members of the Board of Directors for the remainder of the period 2021-2025 | 98.94 % | 1.05 % | 0.00006 % |
Reform of the Company's corporate purpose | 99.38 % | 0.10 % | 0.50 % |
Matter Submitted for Consideration by the Shareholders' Meeting | Voting for the first proposal, which corresponds to the one presented by Ecopetrol's management. | Voting for the second proposal: The number of members of the Board of Directors is changed from 9 to 11; the term of office is changed from 4 to 2 years and the possibility of indefinite reelection is changed and (i) a line item for an employee of Ecopetrol S.A. and (ii) a line item for a minority shareholder (not included among the 10 largest shareholders) is included. |
Other bylaw reforms | 99.77% in favor Nota: The blank vote corresponded to 0.06%. | 0.35% in favor Nota: The blank vote corresponded to 5.44%. |
Matter Submitted for Consideration by the Shareholders' Meeting | Vote on the proposal to file a social action for liability against Mr. Ricardo Roa Barragan. |
Proposals and Miscellaneous | 1.04% in favor Nota: The blank vote corresponded to 4.81%. |
The election of the members of the Board of Directors for the remainder of the 2021-2025 period and the statutory reforms approved by the General Assembly of Shareholders are detailed below:
i) Appointment of Members of the Board of Directors
The names of the members of the Board of Directors elected, for the remainder of the period 2021 – 2025, and the people they replaced are detailed below:
Line | Name | Permanence | Replaced by (if applicable) | Quality |
First | Saúl Kattan | NO | Ángela María Robledo Gómez | Independent |
Second | Mónica De Greiff | YES, but change line | Lilian Tatiana Roa Avendaño | Not independent |
Third | Gonzalo Hernandez | YES, but change line | Mónica De Greiff Lindo | Independent |
Fourth | Claudia González | NO | Gonzalo Hernandez Jiménez | Not independent |
Fifth | Mauricio Cabrera | NO | Luis Alberto Zuleta Jaramillo | Independent |
Sixth | Luis Alberto Zuleta | YES, but change line | Edwin Palma Egea | Not independent |
Seventh | Esteban Piedrahita Uribe | NO | Guillermo García Realpe | Independent |
Eighth | Sandra Ospina | NO | Álvaro Torres Macías | Independent |
Ninth | Juan José Echavarría | YES | Juan José Echavarría Soto | Independent |
ii) The text of the approved amendment can be accessed through the following link: https://www.ecopetrol.com.co/wps/wcm/connect/0cae1d90-7809-4adc-88dd-fa4a1376c5be/Bylaws+Admenment+Proposal.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=oUZHIKc
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Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the main integrated energy companies in the American continent with more than 18,000 employees. In Colombia, it is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production of most transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and it holds leading positions in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segments. With the acquisition of 51.4% of ISA's shares, the company participates in energy transmission, the management of real-time systems (XM), and the Barranquilla - Cartagena coastal highway concession. At the international level, Ecopetrol has a stake in strategic basins in the American continent, with Drilling and Exploration operations in the United States (Permian basin and the Gulf of Mexico), Brazil, and Mexico, and, through ISA and its subsidiaries, Ecopetrol holds leading positions in the power transmission business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, road concessions in Chile, and the telecommunications sector.
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For more information, please contact:
Head of Capital Markets
Carolina Tovar Aragón
Email: investors@ecopetrol.com.co
Head of Corporate Communications (Colombia)
Marcela Ulloa
Email: marcela.ulloa@ecopetrol.com.co
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