Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000842180-25-000010
Chunk: 243

Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 243
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, integrating for the latter the assessment made in this regard by the Executive Committee, for the purpose of the periodic assessment of both by the Board of Directors.
•Examine and organize the succession of the Chair of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and, where applicable, the Deputy Chair, in coordination with the Lead Director in the case of the Chair of the Board and, where appropriate, submit proposals to the Board of Directors to ensure that the succession takes place in an orderly and planned manner.
•Review the Board of Directors’ policy on the selection and appointment of members of the Senior Management, and submit recommendations to the Board when applicable.
•Report on proposals for the appointment and removal of senior managers.
•Regularly review and assess the Company’s corporate governance system and, where applicable, submit proposals to the Board of Directors, for approval or subsequent submission to the General Shareholders’ Meeting, on any amendments and updates that would contribute to its implementation and continuous improvement.
•Ensure compliance with the provisions applicable to directors contained in the Board of Directors Regulations or in the applicable legislation, as well as with the rules relating to conduct on the securities markets, and inform the Board of Directors of these if it deems it necessary.
•Report, prior to any decisions that may be made by the Board of Directors, on all matters within its remit as provided for in the law, the Bylaws, the Board of Directors Regulations and the Regulations of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee, and in particular on situations of conflict of interest of the directors.
In the performance of its duties, the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee, through its chair, will consult with the Chair of the Board of Directors, particularly with respect to matters relating to executive directors and senior managers.
In accordance with the Regulations of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee, executives responsible for the areas that manage matters within the Committee’s remit may be called to meetings, as well as, 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 may,