Company: AWX
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-008670
Chunk: 19

Company: AVALON HOLDINGS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 for “All other fees” consists of fees relating to agreed-upon procedures performed.

PRE-APPROVAL POLICY REGARDING INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

It is the Audit Committee’s policy to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services performed by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. All services provided by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm were pre-approved by the Audit Committee in 2024.

COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the Company’s directors, its executive officers and persons holding more than 10 percent of a class of the Company’s equity securities, to file with the Commission, the NYSE Amex and the Company, initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of Common Stock and other equity securities of the Company. These officers, directors and greater than 10 percent shareholders are required by the Commission’s regulations to furnish the Company with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file.

To the Company’s knowledge, based solely on review of any such reports furnished to the Company, no such Section 16(a) reports were delinquent in 2024.

HEDGING POLICY

The Company has not adopted any practices or policies regarding the ability of employees (including officers) or directors of the Company, or any of their designees, to purchase financial instruments (including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars, and exchange funds), or otherwise engage in transactions, that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of Common Stock of the Company held by any such person, or Common Stock subject to options granted by the Company to any such person, other than the Company’s insider trading policy, which is intended to prohibit both transactions in Company securities while in possession of material non-public information and short selling of Company securities.

ANNUAL REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS

The Notice of Internet Availability provides instructions for assessing our Annual Report to Shareholders for the Company and its subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2024, including financial statements reflecting the financial position and results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries for that year. The Annual Report is not deemed to have been filed with the Commission and such report is not incorporated in this Proxy Statement nor is it part of this proxy solicitation.

SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS

Any shareholder proposals which are intended to be