Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000842180-25-000010
Chunk: 241

Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 241
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 endeavor to establish an annual calendar of meetings, considering the amount of time to be devoted to its different tasks. During 2024, the Audit Committee met thirteen (13) times.
Executives responsible for the areas that manage matters within the Committee’s remit may be called to meetings, in particular, Accounting and Internal Audit areas 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. In any event, the Committee will endeavor to hold private meetings with the head of Internal Audit and with the external auditor, without the attendance of other persons and at appropriate intervals. 
The Committee may, through its Secretary, engage external advisory services for relevant issues when it considers that these cannot be provided by experts or technical staff within the Group on grounds of specialization or independence.
Furthermore, the Committee may solicit personal cooperation and reports from any employee or member of the Senior Management if deemed necessary in order to comply with its functions in relevant matters.
Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee 
The Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee assists the Board of Directors in matters relating to the selection and appointment of members of the Board of Directors; the assessment of performance; the drafting of succession plans; the Bank’s corporate governance system; and the supervision of the conduct of directors and any conflicts of interest that may affect them.
In compliance with the Board of Directors Regulations, this Committee will be composed of a minimum of three directors who must be non-executive directors appointed by the Board of Directors, which will also appoint its Chair. The Chair and the majority of its members must be independent directors.
As of the date of this Annual Report, the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee is composed of three independent directors, including its Chair, and of two external directors, who are the following:

Position (type of directorship)        Name                                      
Chair (Independent)                    Mr. José Miguel Andrés Torrecillas        
Member (Independent)                   Mr. Jaime Félix Caruana Lacorte           
Member (Independent)                   Mr. Raúl Catarino Galamba de Oliveira