Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001193125-25-027348
Chunk: 71

Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 6-K
Chunk 71
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 financial year, as well as the Skills and Diversity Matrix of the Board. As part of this process, the Committee carries out director selection processes, seeking to promote diversity and making sure that they do not suffer from implicit biases that could generate any kind of discrimination. The Committee promotes the selection of female directors in a number that allows for a balanced presence of women and men, ensuring also that women who meet the desired professional profile are included among the potential candidates. In performing its duties, the Committee may engage external services for the selection of potential candidates when it considers this necessary or otherwise desirable. When drafting proposals for the appointment of directors, the Committee will take into consideration, when it considers them suitable, any requests drafted by any member of the Board of Directors regarding potential candidates to fill vacancies. In this regard, in the framework of the Board assessment for 2023, the Committee analyzed the structure, size and composition of the Bank’s corporate bodies, and its conclusions were taken into account as part of the progressive refreshment process of the corporate bodies when assessing the proposals for re-electionand appointment of directors submitted to the 2024 General Shareholders’ Meeting. Thus, as part of this progressive refreshment process, the Committee carried out a director selection process, supported by an independent external expert, and which resulted in the proposals submitted to the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting held in 2024, for the re-electionof four independent directors and one external director, as well as the appointment of one independent director and one external director, thus reinforcing the diversity of knowledge, skills, experience and gender represented on the Board. On the other hand, the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee, as part of the annual assessment process of the Board, conducted its regular analysis of the structure, size and composition of the Board of Directors, as well as its functioning, in accordance with the provisions and objectives set out in the Regulations of the Board and the Selection Policy. As a result of this process, proposals for the re-electionof two executive directors and one independent director were submitted to the 2025 Annual General Meeting. For these purposes, the Committee verified that the Board composition, as a whole, is appropriate, that all of candidates for reelection possessed the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to perform the duties of director; that they had the dedication available and independent judgement, that they were aligned with the culture and values of the Bank, that they met the other suitability requirements required of them, and that they were not subject to any restrictions or incompatibilities for the position;