Company: TXEMF
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001741773-25-001395
Chunk: 36

Company: TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 matters relating to the Fund; and (ii) the confidential, anonymous submission
by employees of the Fund or Franklin Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries of concerns regarding questionable
accounting or auditing matters.

(c)
The Committee shall have the authority to engage special or independent counsel, experts and other advisers
as and when it determines necessary to carry out its duties.

(d)
The Fund must provide for appropriate funding, as determined by the Committee in its capacity as a Committee
of the Board, for payment of (i) compensation to any auditors engaged for the purpose of preparing or
issuing an audit report or performing other audit, review or attest services for the Fund; (ii) compensation
to any advisers employed by the Committee (under paragraph (c) above); and (iii) ordinary administrative
expenses of the Committee that are necessary or appropriate in carrying out its duties.

(e) The Committee shall have unrestricted access to the Fund’s
management and management of the Fund’s adviser, including, but not limited to, their chief executive
officer(s), chief financial officer(s), internal auditors and any other executives and financial officers.

(f) The Committee shall report its activities
to the Board, including any issues that arise with respect to the quality or integrity of the Fund’s
financial statements, the Fund’s compliance with legal or regulatory requirements, or the qualifications,
performance and independence of the Fund’s auditors, and make such recommendations as the Committee
may deem necessary or appropriate.

(g)
The Committee shall review and assess the adequacy of this Charter annually, or more frequently if it
chooses, and recommend any changes to the Board. The Board shall adopt and approve this Charter and may
amend it on its own motion.

(h) The Committee
shall meet jointly with the Audit Committees of the other Funds within the Franklin Templeton Fund complex
as may be appropriate, including to attend presentations and review proposals and other matters of common
concern to all such Audit Committees.

(i)
Pursuant to delegated authority from the Board, and at the request of the applicable investment manager
of the Fund (the “Investment Manager”), the Committee, or an appointed delegate of the Committee
as

applicable, shall provide proxy voting instructions as a representative of the Fund to the Investment Manager in certain situations where the Investment Manager has identified a material conflict of interest between the Investment Manager or one of its affiliates and an issuer (i.e., the Committee or its appointed delegate will approve or disapprove the Investment Manager’s