Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000842180-25-000010
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Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 Control area and Risks area, and, at the request thereof, those persons within the Group who have knowledge of or responsibility for the matters covered by the agenda, when their presence at the meeting is deemed convenient. The Committee may also call any other Group employee or manager, and even arrange for them to attend without the presence of any other manager.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it will seek to ensure that the presence of non-Committee members during these meetings, such as Bank managers and employees, be limited to those cases where it is necessary and to the items on the agenda for which they are called.
The Committee will meet whenever it is convened by its Chair, who is empowered to call the Committee meetings and to set their agendas. The Committee will endeavor to establish an annual calendar of meetings, considering the amount of time to be devoted to its different tasks. In 2024, it held twenty-three (23) meetings.
Technology and Cybersecurity Committee
The Technology and Cybersecurity Committee’s essential function is to assist the Board of Directors in the oversight of technological risk and cybersecurity management and in monitoring the Group’s technology strategy.
The Technology and Cybersecurity Committee will consist of a minimum of three directors appointed by the Board of Directors, which will also appoint its Chair. The Board of Directors will endeavor to ensure that the members of the Committee have the knowledge and experience appropriate to the duties they are called upon to perform.
As of the date of this Annual Report, the Technology and Cybersecurity Committee is composed of one executive director, three independent directors and one external director, who are the following:

Position (type of directorship)        Name                                      
Chair (Executive)                      Mr. Carlos Torres Vila                    
Member (Independent)                   Mr. Raúl Catarino Galamba de Oliveira     
Member (External)                      Mrs. Cristina de Parias Halcón            
Member (Independent)                   Mrs. Ana Leonor Revenga Shanklin          
Member (Independent)                   Mr. Jan Paul Marie Francis Verplancke     
Under its regulations, the Technology and Cybersecurity Committee has the following functions:
- Oversight of technological risk and cybersecurity management:
•Review the Group’s exposures to the main technological risks, including the risks related to information security and cybersecurity, as well as the procedures adopted by the executive area to monitor and control such exposures.
•Review the policies and systems for the assessment, control and management of the Group’s technological infrastructures and risks, including the response and recovery plans in the event of cyber-attacks.
•Be informed of business continuity