Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
Chunk: 1066

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Chunk 1066
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#### Meetings and voting rights
We hold our annual general shareholders’ meeting during the first six months of each fiscal year on a date set by the board of directors. Extraordinary meetings may be called from time to time by the board of directors whenever the board considers it advisable for corporate interests, and whenever so requested by shareholders representing at least 3% of the outstanding share capital of Banco Santander. Notices of all meetings have to be published at least one month prior to the date set for the meeting, except in those instances in which a different period is established by law, in the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry or in one of the national newspapers with the largest circulation in Spain, on the website of the CNMV and on Banco Santander’s website (www.santander.com). In addition, under Spanish law, the agenda of the meeting must be sent to the CNMV and the Spanish Stock Exchanges and published on the company’s website. We held our annual general shareholder meeting on 22 March 2024. No extraordinary meeting was held.

In accordance with the Rules and regulations for the general shareholders' meeting, from the date when the call of the general shareholders' meeting is published, our corporate website includes the text of all resolutions proposed by the board of directors with respect to the agenda items and the details regarding the manner and procedures for shareholders to follow to confer representation on any individual or legal entity. The manner and procedures for proxy granting, voting prior to

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the meeting, remote attendance and the Electronic Shareholders' Forum are also indicated and published on the corporate website.

Only registered holders of Banco Santander shares on record at least five days prior to the day on which a meeting is scheduled may attend and vote at shareholders’ meetings. As a registered shareholder, the depositary will be entitled to vote the Banco Santander shares underlying the Santander ADSs. The deposit agreement requires the depositary to accept voting instructions from holders of Santander ADSs and to execute such instructions to the extent permitted by law.

In 2004, our shareholders could exercise their voting and representation rights prior to the general shareholder's meeting by electronic means (via the Internet). Since 2005, our shareholders were also able to attend via the Internet (besides attending and voting in person) and were also able to vote in real time on the Internet on