Dear ladies and gentlemen, shareholder, as a member of the board of directors and the Chairman, it's a pleasure to welcome you to the AGM. Just like in the previous years, we will hold the AGM both in person and remotely, simultaneously. I would also like to thank the presence remotely of all the members of the board of directors of this company. We therefore open the session. This AGM was called on the 22nd of February this year, both on the website of our company, but also at the CNMV, the National Securities Commission, and in several newspapers. The agenda of today's session is included in those announcements and also in the systems the attendance card that you have with you. I consider it read if you agree with me. Now, the secretary will provide you with the quorum data for the AGM.
The summary of the list of attendees in the AGM of 2023 is present shareholders, 141, owners of 150,388,000, which account for the 67.7% of the share capital. Represented shareholders, a total of 463, that represent 40,000,000 shares that account for 4.13%. In total, we have 604 shareholders, owners of 190,416,500 shares that account for 91.83% of the share capital. Those figures may change depending on the latest shareholders that have recorded in the remote platform, in the online platform, and the final quorum will be published on the website of the company, together with the results of the votes.
According to the Articles 193 and 194 of the Capital Companies Act and Article 9 of the regulation of the AGM, we meet the necessary legal requirements to declare properly, duly established this AGM in a first call. Taking into account the attendance data, I consider that the AGM is duly constituted on a first call. The presiding panel is made up of myself and the board members that have connected remotely or that are personally in person here, as well as the secretary who's on my right. I would also like to inform you that according to Article 203 of the Capital Companies Act, and as it was duly included in the call, we have asked for the presence of public notary, Mr. Fernando de la Cámara, to take minutes of the session. I'll give the floor now to the public notary.
Thank you so much, dear chairman. My name is Fernando de la Cámara. I'm a public notary of Madrid, as the chairman has said, and I've been asked to take minutes of this session. In agreement with what appears on the Commercial Registry regulation, I would like to say that if anyone has any complaints or protests against what has been said regarding the amount of share capital and shareholders represented, please make sure that, please let us know, and we will take note. Thank you very much. I would like to thank the shareholders that would like to take the floor after my report and the report of the secretary to submit right now the attendance card to the staff that's in the room, so that they can.
You can receive the form to fill in. Those who wish to participate remotely can send their questions and ask for the floor using the form that appears on platform. Once all the comments have been made, the secretary and myself will answer all the questions that have been made. If any shareholder wishes for the public notary to take literal note of their presentation, please submit to us your text, or please include this in the form that you sent on the online platform. Once all the comments have been made, we will vote the resolutions proposals. The secretary will now explain how this is going to be done. Just like in previous years, the basic rules are the following. They are also included on the AGM resolution.
All proposed resolutions that are related to the agenda will be termed as it follows. All the shares present or represented shall be deemed in favor of the motions and will subtract all the votes against or abstentions, as well as all the shareholders who wish to leave the room. If you leave the room and you do not exercise your vote before disconnecting. As regard to the proposed resolutions that are not included in the agenda, we will use the following manner. All shares present or represented shall be deemed against the motion, subtracting all the votes in favor and all the abstentions, as well as the people who leave the room. The same will happen to all of those who are attending remotely. If you disconnect before voting, you will be considered to be voting in favor.
I would also like to inform the shareholders or the representatives that are in person that if they want to leave a record that they have left the room after the voting has started, they may say so by going to the room that's been prepared for that, which is at the exit. Is the exit registry, where we will take note of your quorum and of your votes. In the case of the shareholders or representatives that are attending remotely, before they leave the room, they can vote, because they can vote at any time during the session before disconnecting. First we will vote the proposed resolutions by the board. If there are any, we will vote the ones that are proposed by the others. If a resolution is approved, all the others on the same topic and are non-compatible, will be considered dismissed.
Thank you very much, dear secretary. Without further ado, I will now go to the next part of this AGM, which is a brief report by myself about how the activities in our sector have developed as well as those during all the activities how we've carried out in 2022. For that, I will use a presentation. You can follow it in the room, and if you are connected remotely, you can also follow it on our website. We'll talk about four topics, and I'll try to summarize in the end the fifth item, which is what is of importance to us today, which is the proposal of certain resolutions and decisions that will have to be made by the AGM today. We'll talk about
We'll start talking about the scenario, the context where we have held our activities in the year 2022. I'd like to start by saying that we have had, in the year 2022, the main currencies in which the company operates, as well as the euro, which is our, the company's own currency. We can see that all the other currencies have been revalued upwards, mentioning the US dollar, but also the Mexican peso and the Brazilian real, two of the countries where our international operations have a greater weight as a whole. It's also true that we have faced one of the most volatile financial years in history. The energy market had prices that increased as never before, and volatility has been present in all our activities.
As you can see in the graph, the changes of the prices over the year meant that it was not very easy to predict what was gonna happen in following weeks. The most or the best-known topic has been the price hike in electricity prices. Until the Royal Decree 10/2022, in the midst of the year 2022, it didn't change. Not until then. We was only after then that the electricity prices dropped in Spain and in the rest of Europe. As we can see on the graph on the right, until then, the prices had followed the trend of the gas prices and a similar trend to the other European countries with which we can compare ourselves in terms of size and industrial activity and population. The regulatory measures this year have been intense.
Everyone working in the legal departments in our company or in relationships with institutions know that they have had to work a lot on new applications of regulations as never seen before. Over 20 regulatory measures, both nationally and internationally in Europe. The goals were clear: to decouple the electricity prices from the gas prices, to try and mitigate volatility, and therefore, to try and limit the prices with the consequences these had positively in our customers, both industrial customers, but also households. I would like to mention in the Spanish and European legislation that this legislation will continue to increase. There are now some measures being discussed and worked on. Therefore, we cannot give any details on those new regulations since they are part of the daily political agenda.
All of those regulations were taken into consideration in the P&L that you will see in a minute with a clear impact on all the items. I will highlight four. First, cap on electricity price. As you probably remember, Naturgy anticipated this cap with our compromiso tariff, commitment tariff. Over the last year, we also have a decree to reduce the price of electricity that fixes the inframarginal price at a maximum of EUR 66 per megawatt, so we have a clawback. Another important measure was a new tax on energy companies and on the financial sector due to that situation of exception. In Europe, we continue working in many measures. I will highlight two. First, the reform of the electricity market.
There is, today, in fact, a meeting of the EU energy ministers in order to move forward on that new legislative framework, and secondly, to try and reach an agreement on, the joint purchases of gas. A EU-wide joint procurement method, which hasn't been defined yet. In 2022, as well as an important regulatory activity, and despite the changes and volatility in the market, the company has continued to be a benchmark in many important aspects in our industry, and I would like to highlight our key role as a gas supplier to Spain. The energy supply has been one of the most important concerns of our society, and that concern was due to plenty of information, some of it without any reasons to be, on the concerns of whether there would be or not energy scarcity in Europe during the winter.
We are now coming into the spring, the winter has gone by. As you have seen, as a country, not as a company, we haven't had to cut the supply of gas to the markets, basically because Spain is located in a very special position versus other countries regarding its the countries where we obtain our gas, which means we are less dependent from natural gas that is imported through the pipelines. Naturgy, in terms of pipeline provisioning or gas supply as LNG, has maintained important market shares. We are the first supplier by pipeline and by tanker in Spain, that means that we are in a better position in order to guarantee the country's supply.
Another important aspect of Naturgy's present work this year has been to provide to households and to customers to make sure that all our CCGTs have been operational. We've had them in operation many of the weeks, and so we have been able to provide electricity supply when other sources have not provided energy, such as hydropower or wind energy. Especially in a situation where exports to France, electricity exports to France have increased significantly and the gap between the production with renewable energies and the export of electricity to France, this gap meant that we needed to use all our gas turbines or our combined-cycle gas turbines. This is not only proven with our presence in electricity generation through CCGT. We have gone from an important presence in 2021, and we've increased it by 50% in 2022.
In the electricity system itself, 15% of the electricity generated in 2021 was done through our CCGTs, and we've gone from that 15% to a 25% in 2022. We have worked not only in technical aspects, but also in commercial aspects. You've probably all seen that in the month of November, December of 2021, but most specifically throughout 2022, Naturgy was pioneer in providing innovative solutions in the market. Those solutions have reached about 60% of a customer base that the company has. How did we do that? Well, we've done that by doing a proper commercial design using what we called commitment or Compromiso tariffs, both for gas and electricity, creating tariffs that gave people visibility with a fixed price for most of our customer base.
In electricity, with a three-year visibility, and in gas, both for condominiums and small companies with a two-year visibility, and for all other industrial customers with a three-year visibility. At the end of 2022, the company also decided to take a step forward, and bearing in mind the price reform for the Last Resort Tariff, what the company did was to find easy digital solutions that could be urgently implemented in order to help people move from less favorable tariffs to other more appropriate tariffs, publishing it in the media to show our commitment with customers in the long term. We wanted to make it easier for them to change tariffs when it helped them personally. Finally, we have continued to provide in the year 2022 a greater amount of funds to the Naturgy Fund, so that
to the Naturgy Foundation, sorry, so that they could continue supporting those people in a vulnerable situation, I will show you the figures later. The company has invested significantly. It has invested 30% more than the previous year, nearly EUR 2 billion. The actual figure is EUR 1.96 billion. It has invested in all its businesses with our renewable fleet, which is one of the key axes for growth part of our strategic plan. Also strengthening our energy distribution networks, both for electricity and gas. Also doing what we called energy management, where the goal is to ensure the supply, and finally, the trading and implementation of those commercial proposals or commitments with the customers that we mentioned before. We can see this, we can consider whether this is growth or not.
Clearly, the company's commitment is to grow, that's why we have that EUR 1.9 billion of investment. Of those, EUR 1.2 were devoted to growth, the growth of our activities. A different way to see this investment must be done in order to make sure that we agree with the EU taxonomy and with our desire to move forward in all the ESG commitments and everything that has to do with the sustainability and environmental goals. Of the EUR 1.9 billion, EUR 1.3 are compatible with that EU taxonomy. This meant that we go into the third chapter, results.
The company's results in the year 2022, just to give you a summary, a very brief summary, you have all the information in detail in the financial and sustainability report that you have available on the website, on our website. We could say that the figures were very robust in a year with a very volatile energy market and a very complex market. Volatile because of what we saw before. There was a price evolution and, in some extent, a cost evolution that was important, bearing in mind the situation of the international markets in terms of raw materials, and also because the daily management, given this volatility, was very difficult, bearing in mind how the energy markets are designed.
Just to mention four figures, allow me to highlight what we called EBITDA in the financial jargon, better known as gross profit from operations. We've had a growth compared to the previous year, we have grown by 40%, reaching nearly EUR 5 billion. In terms of net profit, a growth of 36%, reaching EUR 1.65 billion. Investments that have also increased by 29% versus the previous year, a total of EUR 1.9 billion, and a reduction of the company's net debt by 6%, nearly below EUR 12 billion. If we go into the financial statements, I would like to highlight that all the businesses, without exception, have helped generate this important result, and they have contributed with commitment, with robustness, and with intelligence.
No business stands out more than others, that shows the appropriate distribution of the results and also the commitment of all the company's employees. I would like, in fact, to congratulate the employees, because without them, without each and every single one of them, the results would not have been achievable. Obviously, given the nature of our business and of our operations, about three-fourths of our business are in euros. We will also have business that, because of their location, are being generated in other currencies. I would like to highlight that we continue to work to have a limitation in our costs, cost constraints, even though the situation meant that in some cases we had to increase the costs versus 2021. What's most relevant is what the
has the company done to carry out that cash generation during the year 2022. First and foremost, I would like to highlight the cautious allocation of capital
These are difficult times, troubled times, not just in our sector, but in general in the economy. Therefore, what we must demand from managers is the cautious management of the resources that they have. What have we done with those resources? Well, as you can see, mostly we have devoted or allocated the results or the resources to invest. Secondly, we wanted to give a payout, a dividend, and also to give back to the society. Our level of commitment with shareholders is, we can see, not higher than what we have with the rest of the society. Therefore, we have devoted the same amount of money to pay dividends and to pay taxes and fees. Obviously, the surplus has been used to pay the debt by reducing by 6% the net debt versus the previous year.
The net evolution, as you can see on the right, means that we have 2.4 times EBITDA is our net debt/EBITDA ratio leverage. This is the normal formula used. Thanks to that cautious allocation, we can also say that we have maintained our BBB rating by the rating agencies. This translates, obviously, into healthy financial status of our company as seen from outside. Let me also highlight that we are ready to be able to continue investing and not leaving any opportunity aside because the company has enough liquidity to face that investment were there to be projects in this sense that will be worthwhile investing for the company. Let us now go to another part I believe is important and pertinent for this AGM, which is the remuneration of shareholders. 2022.
For 2022, we propose a total remuneration of EUR 1.2 per share, in line with what we established back in time in the strategic plan 2021-2025, out of which there have been already two payments that add up to EUR 0.70 per share. One was paid in the month of August 2022, the other one in the month of November. As you can see to your right, and bearing in mind that a company such as ours is a long-term investment company, but even thinking in the short term, you see the total yield for a shareholder that had entered the company in the last 4 years. Yes, from 2070 to 2020. Leaving.
Deciding to exit in the last four years is a positive result, calculating the yield, and the depreciation of the share, plus the dividend payouts that which proves the robustness of the company when proposing to its shareholders a reasonable yield in an economic scenario, which is the one we're living. As our report says, not only has the company is focusing on the industrial management and the financial management, but we're also focusing on all those aspects that are related to what is simplified in ASG and ESG, which is sustainability, environmental sustainability and decarbonization. We have advanced towards everything that has to do with decarbonization, both by reducing our CO2 emissions and also in greater environmental investment and spending in the generation emission factors, but also in the free emissions installed capacity.
You have all the data in the report, let me highlight out of all these ratio that you can see since 2018 when we defined a clear track to committed to all these aspects. We have advanced from the standpoint of focusing on investment, focusing on the management of all the equipments and business lines, that represents that commitment we have towards a track, a clear track to improve in everything that has to do with the decarbonization of the company. Another important aspect of the ESG is the social contribution. You know that that social contribution can be seen from different approaches. One that is that the company's commitment towards a more affordable tariffs, which is the Tarifa Compromiso tariff. 1.5 million clients benefited from these new tariffs.
Also everything that has to do with facilitating the new regulated tariffs, the Last Resort Tariff included for gas. With the systems that we have implemented for the clients, we have facilitated the transfer of more than 350,000 contracts towards this Last Resort Tariff. Also in the procurement decisions to have the adequate providers fabric revolving around our activities, local activities, I mean. We can say that 80% of the providers are local providers. We continue with our program of energy volunteering, and that has allowed for all these programs that have made a reference in difference in terms of ESGs, they have distributed among all our interest in target public, more than EUR 34 billion euros, as said by international metrics of these measurement standards.
Inside our decision lines, we have included some issues that represent the social trend, for example, diversity. We can already say that we continue evolving in our commitments set a few years ago, and 30% of our staff in management positions are women. Let me highlight another ratio, new generations. We are 180 years old as a company, and we have to manage all our track record and history, and you have seen as citizens of this country, the transformation that is taking place in gender equality. Within this transformation, we are clearly committed as a company towards, for example, young youths. 77% of our employees are younger than 30 years, and they are women.
In terms of a payment to the management, we have included 10% of the remuneration to our managers in our remunerations, variable remunerations plan to everything that has to do with the metrics of ESGs, and that little by little is something which is becoming one of the key indicators to be followed by the board members of the group. The taxonomy, the reporting of the taxonomy has been implemented at 90%. Let me highlight that more than 83% of our providers are already audited on our side in the same using the same terms that we are audited, we are ourselves being audited. All our value change is following the same ESGs objectives.
Our foundation also participates, and it's a fundamental part, in our activity and our ESG commitments, both in the vulnerability plans, but also in the training plans. For the vulnerability plans, let me highlight four figures. The first one is social programs, where we have more 200,000 families that benefit. We have our school for energy with 30,000 students that have benefited from those recommendations and information provided to improve their energy consumption, and therefore reduce their energy bill. All that, and let me please highlight and thank the task carried out of more than 600 volunteers in our company that, in a volunteer basis and allow for these programs to be carried out.
We have every year more volunteers. That is a proof that our employees are also committed towards the policies the company implements. Another action arena of the foundation is training programs, education programs for more than 1 million families that have benefited. Also our own internal training so that we can provide a part of the company to be able to carry out any kind of technical activity in the energy sector. Professional training. If you will allow me, let me now start ending and talk about the future.
We have lived a 2020 year, where despite all the turbulences we've flown through, we have kept the storm in a reasonable way with many achievements in many elements, not only financially speaking, but as you have seen, we have also devoted certain time to other achievements that are equally important that make the company to be what we want it to be, a social reference and not only a figures reference. We have to look to the future. Let me highlight how we see the most immediate future for 2023, and how we approach this general situation in the world with regards to the world of energy, which is so much in the mouth of everyone. If we talk about 2023, we expect again, and not an easy year and not a calm year.
A month ago, we presented the results of 2022. We told the financial community, which was focusing on knowing our perspectives for the yields for 2023, that we were taking into account the circumstances and the energy scenario we had a month ago, that we were having ideas of having the same results as in 2022. We still have that viewpoint with that scenario, which I stress is going to be a difficult scenario. Were the conditions of the scenario to remain, we could say that 2023 will not go backwards versus 2022. More specifically, the actions that the company aims at doing to be able to achieve these objectives are the following. I will make a difference between the markets, businesses, and the grid.
In the grid in Spain, we see a moderate growth and the network also where we will insist on investing and digitalizing both processes and the operations that can increase their digitalization level. In LatAm, apart from a major action towards the inflation of the countries where we operate in the tariff system, LatAm, unfortunately speaking, is suffering huge levels of inflation in some of the countries where we're present. We also see a growth of the demand that is coming with certain delay versus the European demand because they entered later in the impacts of the pandemics. For the markets environment, let me highlight four aspects. First, we have an uncertainty scenario above us. Uncertainty is ahead, coming ahead because let's say that many of the variables that were stable before all the last years and events we've lived, well, they are no longer stable.
Let me highlight some fundamental aspects now. For example, the gas provisioning. We want to intensely work on stabilizing these supply conditions and adapt that to the market. You may imagine that is not easy. You know, it's not an easy task because the situation of the market is constantly changes and changing. You've seen that in 2022, our agreement with Algeria for price gases for 2022 was not closed until in, somewhat already in the year. Another aspect that we're working on is to providing the company with flexibility and diversification in everything that has to do to the supply to guarantee our supply. This wouldn't be possible without a diversified portfolio, which is one of our competitive advantages.
For renewable energies and for electricity renewable energies, we have an ambition, sorry, an ambitious investment plan that you are aware of. For 2023, we will carry out and we will finish many investment projects in Spain, Australia, and in the USA. Another aspect of renewables, but regarding the side of renewable gas, Naturgy is better positioned than any other competitor to be able to make this renewable gas and biomethane becoming one of the strategic axis for growth for the short and mid-term. Finally, we're going to be working on the trading and commercialization, highlighting the fact that all the actions that may consolidate the yield achieved with a constant improvement in the offer design and the customer satisfaction rating on the customer experience, we want to improve.
We want them to be more appreciated by our customers. In general, it's going to be a year for investment, major investments in 2023. The main destination of our cash generation will be to make the company grow and invest. We will continue to work to have financial caution so we can have a solid balance sheet, and it's going to be a year where we commit ourselves with you, dear shareholders, to pay out a dividend of at least the same, similar to the one of 2022. Let me go further, and we talk about the energy sector and its challenges. Let me summarize this in a very simple way. Three challenges.
Try to be the engine towards bringing solutions that will not put at risk any of the three axes that are to be the positioning of the countries and the companies before the challenges that this sector faces. First, to work in all the initiatives to improve and not put at risk the supply security for gas and electricity supplies. The security of supply can not be questioned, cannot be put at risk whenever other initiatives may come to the company, and that's for the coming years. Sustainability will be the second axis. Energy solutions must advance in terms of sustainability, and as you have been able to see previously, Naturgy has proven that it evolves in advances in this direction.
Any company that will be created tomorrow will have an advantage versus the companies that are older, such as us that we're almost 180 years, because we've got a legacy and society has changed greatly, and the society is requesting for commitments that were not envisaged 80 years ago. We must have those agents, those actors that yesterday, today and tomorrow will want to continue to be part, a relevant part of the energy sector. We are fully committed towards sustainability firmly, but also for the truth. You can see it in our figures, and you will see the year-on-year in these shareholders' meetings. We must do all this with a third axis, which is the axis of providing to our clients, individual clients, households, but also industrial agents, providing them with energy at affordable prices.
No solution will have a meaning if it doesn't take into account this third axis. In this third axis, we're working, as we have proven, we have worked through the commitments towards the tariffs, the Tarifa Compromiso, as a voluntary effort coming from the company to contribute to the energy trilemma with feasible solutions and real solutions. Naturgy not only believes that we'll be part, but wants to proactively find solutions, solving these three problems and trying to solve these problems by not reducing advances in the other two. We're facing not only Naturgy, but the sector is facing the energy world the world energy sector is facing this dilemma and these challenges, the major challenges that each company will face the best way possible. This takes us to the company finding opportunities stemming from different axes.
Furthermore, I'd like to highlight again, that this company is positioned and positioning itself to be able to take an active role in this energy transition. First, with everything that has to do with the infrastructures. Infrastructures will continue to have a major role in the energy sector of the future. Gas infrastructures and electricity infrastructures allow to take energy to your homes, to your companies, to your offices. We have to continue thinking about infrastructures and see them as a competitive advantage because these infrastructures have to be able to be supported by investments in renewable gases, as we're doing, to be supported by a bigger presence of electricity generation of renewable sources, a greater efficient electrification in those specific industrial activities allowing it.
Also committed towards those complementary services for final consumers that will allow us to little by little adapt the products and services we can offer and provide to our clients, being the client the core of our objectives always. We're convinced that the combination of gas and electricity is the most efficient way towards energy transition. Gas is not part of the problem, it's part of the solution. As a solution, we will advance in taking decisions with renewable gases, hydrogen, for example, that will allow to substitute efficiently and safely all those parts of the value chain that cannot be substituted and replaced today. We will grow our renewable generation part because, and fleet, because the coexistence of gas and electricity are compatible in these energy transition vectors.
Electrification is something that will increase and that Naturgy cannot be left aside. As I said before, safety and security, the security of supply must be part of all this transition. Traditional gas has its place there. Gas is necessary because it has an essential role, which it still has and will have, but also to continue to provide diversification of sources of supply so that we can have a peace of mind, so we have enough storage, so that the situations that we may have to face won't make us be wary, us and the society as a whole.
That's why I wanted to say as the end of my intervention, before summarizing the proposals for resolutions, let me say that the company is following all its plans, focusing on achieving the best possibilities in the energy sectors that is we, because we want to be, because it's crucial for the households, the companies, but also the development of the society. Let me now very briefly explain the, and summarize the fundamental part of today's session, which is the proposals and approvals of the resolutions that we ask for shareholders to vote. The proposals for resolutions, I will explain later on, will be classified into 4 blocks. 1 to 4, everything that has to do with the annual financial statements of 2022.
Chapters or proposals 5 and 6 are for the management of the board of the administration, board of administration. Proposal 7, it's mandatory by law. We will do that one by one. The proposal to reelect and appoint 4 members of the board of directors, and then 8-10 other resolutions necessary legally speaking. We hope that with my presentation and with the Q&A session that is now for you to take the floor, we will better understand what Naturgy is, and I thank you for having listened, and I hope I wasn't too long and that I was clear enough so that you shareholders see that you own a company with a brilliant future ahead. Thank you very much. Let me now give the floor to you. We now open the Q&A session.
Dear President, we have three requests to take the floor in the room and five in written. Let us now go to the people present in the room, please. First, shareholder Daniel Lopez Perez, delegating in Maria Campuzano Guerra.
Buenos dias. Good morning. My name is Maria Campuzano. I take the floor in the AGM as a spokesperson of the Alliance Against Energy Poverty, a social movement of with more than 10 years fighting against energy poverty and abuse of major energy companies. This is our fourth participation in the annual AGM of Naturgy. The last two ones were done in written. This year we decided to come in person before the context of uncertainty, where millions of people in Spain live with anguish their relationship with power companies. Three years ago, there's a moratorium of supply shortages.
The government has extended these. Thanks to these measures, many homes guarantee their electricity and gas supply, though they cannot pay their invoices. Reality tells us that many families are accumulating huge debt that won't be assumed. That's why we wanted to ask, first of all, have you quantified the number of households that your company has not cut electricity? Have you quantified the debt generated by these families that cannot pay? The Alliance Against Energy Poverty understands that out of your direct responsibility in this sense, and taking into account the profits of EUR 2.6 billion, your companies should assume those non-payments of those vulnerable households. That's we want to ask you, if you are ready, apart from your agreements with your regional governments
Can you sit with the government in order to to condone the debt of these vulnerable families? Despite the good words and initiatives that you have been able to share with the shareholders regarding energy vulnerability, there's no better measure that allowing for millions of households that are vulnerable to live without that burden of that debt and physical, psychological, and emotional impacts generated. Some of you may know that the Alliance Against Energy Poverty is in Catalonia, apart from having a national presence, but in that region, on the 29th of March 2021, the Generalitat signed an agreement with Endesa after many years of pressures of citizen, a historical agreement to condone the debt of 35,000 families, allowing these families to start from scratch and with their anguish.
The company assumed EUR 28 million, which was 73% of the total of the debt between 2015 and 2020, sorry. A few months ago, they condoned the debt of 2021 to 41,000 families, Endesa assumed EUR 9 million. Thanks to the citizens' pressure, more than EUR 37 million were paid between 2015 and 2021. We know that the Generalitat wants to sign similar agreements with other companies, and we were asking ourselves if finally Naturgy will be proactive in this sense to solve this situation. If Naturgy is really committed against energy poverty, are you ready to negotiate with the Generalitat? Do you commit to do that this same year? Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mrs. Campuzano. We will now give the floor to Mrs. Mónica Quiteras Blaya, delegating to Mr. Juan Carlos Laye-Laje Lopez.
Good morning, everyone. My name is Juan Carlos Laje. I come representing the platform Luz Ya in Cañada Real, with more than 50 social organizations of neighbors committed to reestablish light in Cañada Real. The Ombudsman has three times expressed through resolutions explained the need and feasibility of reestablishing the electricity supply at Cañada Real light. In its last communication, he highlights the shortage of light. It goes against human decency that alters social peace in the terms expressed in Article 10 of the Constitution. The damages to the population are irreplaceable, especially for the more than 1,800 boys and girls and teenagers that have to face a third winter without gas and electricity.
How come since October 2020, light has not come back to the affected sectors in La Cañada Real? Having had statements from the Ombudsman requesting even by the Council of Europe for the population. Some say that all this is due to real estate, image, interests that want to force these people to leave their homes. We would like to know what Naturgy thinks about this situation. Thank you very much.
Now we give the floor to Milagros Barrero Arroyo, who's delegated on María del Carmen Gómez Pérez.
Good morning. I address the AGM and the Chairman, Mr. Francisco Reynés. As a former customer affected by the bad operation of your company towards me, in 2016, your company, Mr. Reynés, with whom I had gas and electricity, deprived me of a right such as energy. They cut my supply, my electricity supply, because of an unpaid bill. At the time, my financial situation was very precarious. I only received 400 EUR per month from a disability allowance. With 400 EUR, as you can imagine, it was impossible to pay my bills, as well as eating, et cetera. I survived rather than lived.
When the electricity cut took place, I called the company to explain my situation, and in good faith, I wanted to let them know that I couldn't pay because at the moment I had no money, not because I didn't want to pay. Naturgy treated me very badly, and at no point did they inform me of the Law 24/2015 that protects vulnerable families in Catalonia of supply cuts. It was only when I went to talk to some associations where I discovered my rights. In 2022, I terminated my contract with the company, and now I have a debt of about EUR 3,000 for gas and electricity, a debt that Naturgy, Mr. Reynés, I hope you're listening to me, right?
Yes, I am.
Well, I received 10 calls per day and letters threatening me to take me to court.
Many times I have spoken to the company to explain to me my situation, that I couldn't pay those bills. They have treated me really badly, even though they knew I had been identified as vulnerable, in a very terrible manner, as if I was a criminal taking profit of the company. Quite different from the reality. You've been cruel and inhuman, both Naturgy and the collection companies that you hired. I know that there are many families that are suffering this harassment and that have had to choose between feeding themselves or paying the bills, and we know that thanks to the association of Alianza contra la Pobreza Energética. Families that are in a terrible situation. Naturgy says and appraises itself for supporting the families in risk. Maybe you should condone our debt.
You can afford that, it would be a great relief for us. I would like to ask you two questions. Have you ever thought about signing the co- agreement with the regional government of Catalonia to condone the debt of vulnerable customers? What's gonna happen with the debt that is applied or that is growing due to the energy moratorium? I think we should and deserve starting without that debt, a burden that we have carried for a long time. Don' t you think we deserve a second opportunity? Thank you.
Many thanks. Now we move on to the questions in writing. First of all, Francisco Javier de Ana Goval, holder of 100 shares, and that asks for the publication of certain documents that have been put at the disposal. In the year 2020, you presented the Lean project.
You said that it was gonna be a cost saving of EUR 500 million. Since then, you have never explained to us how the plan is evolved and the savings achieved, if any. I would like the Chairman to detail and quantify in the results of 2022 how much is due to the Lean project. In line with that, in the documents presented, we cannot see the value given to the 15% of the share capital that Naturgy has on Lean organizations in Spain. I would like to know if in 2022 we maintained the 15% of share capital and a breakdown for each Lean corporation. We know that dismisses and layoffs have taken place in 2022, and the code of ethics and corporate social responsibility has been breached, such as NTT DATA and in the company Everis, two Lean companies.
Any comments you can make about those two companies and their layoffs? Fifthly, Shareholder Sonia Prieto Jiménez asks the following question. In the last few months, we start to hear biomethane as an energy that could help in energy transition. Bear in mind that through Nedgia, Naturgy has the main distribution network in Spain. What is the company doing to invest in biomethane, and what do you expect for the following years, and how many gigawatts hour are you gonna inject over the next few years? Shareholder Belén Pérez Morales. Regarding the energy prices, what can we expect? What's the environment we'll have over the next few months globally? Shareholder Joaquín Aguirre González. In the year 2022, we've seen how sometimes either the politicians or some companies and industrial companies referred to energy supply security.
However, the sector has been able to respond, and we haven't had any cuts. I would like to know how Naturgy has contributed to the supply security and in which percentage. Shareholder Miguel González Ferreira. What are the advancements made by the company in terms of renewables? What are the estimates that you have for growth in Spain and globally? There are no further questions.
Okay. Given that there are no further questions, if it's okay with the shareholders that have asked the questions, as well as the answers that the secretary and myself may give to some of the questions that you have raised, we ask you, and we urge you, so that if the response doesn't meet your requirements, we can respond after the AGM and provide you more information over the next five days. We don't
In order for us not to go into too much detail, we can go in depth over the next five days. Due to the nature of the countries that have been asked by Mr. Campuzano, I'm gonna ask the secretary to help me with regard to the legal explanation. I would like to say, Ms. Campuzano, three key things. As you've probably seen in our presentation, and as I have reiterated, in terms of our foundation's approach and activities, energy poverty is something we are working on. Fortunately or unfortunately, our approach to the problem in individual cases may not be the same or may not be what you would do, but it's something that is part of our commitments and our goals. You also need to understand, and I would like all the shareholders to understand, that a company, above anything else, is...
has to fulfill and comply with the law, and the law regulates energy poverty, as the secretary will tell us in detail and due to his legal knowledge. All the agreements that have been signed, and we have signed many agreements with autonomous regions and city councils. I don't want to focus just on Catalonia, but in the rest of Spain, all the agreements that we have signed are being fulfilled to the detail. The question is, yes, we are committed to fight energy poverty, but we'll do that in accordance with the law. I would like for the secretary to give us a greater clarification on this. I'm sure it will be good for everyone that's connected and that is in the room. Ms. Campuzano.
I think that you also participated in the last AGM in person that we held in IFEMA. From then until now, some new things have happened, but not as many as we wished. I remember the evening before that AGM, it was a public consultation, the National Vulnerability Plan, we thought that the plan would help clarify how we needed to treat vulnerable people. One of the problems that we still have, and we have it because that national plan hasn't been able to achieve it, the goal that we wanted was to homogenize the different treatments in the different autonomous regions. At the time, there were 400,000 customers that had the right to a social bond, as we call it. A total cost of EUR 30 million.
We only have 170,000 with a total cost of EUR 59 million. Those 170,000 compared to the 130,000 that were real vulnerable people at the time, because we had 400,000, because The plan included some second homes, some holiday homes. If you had a second homes under 3,000 watts, then you could have access to the social bond. That has been improved and corrected, and that's why the figure has changed from 400,000 to 170,000. The company... The actual families that have needed real help have gone from 130,000 to 170,000, and the cost has also increased.
We complied with the legislation at the time, and since then, the legislation has been developed, as you said, with Royal Decree-Law 6/2022, that it has been extended, that limits the possibilities of cutting supply. With regards to the regional government of Catalonia, the Law 24/2015, well, we're still waiting for it to be fully implemented. You probably remember that the regional government in Catalonia published a document on the website. However, not at our request, but the request of another company. It was considered not applicable because it hadn't been approved in the official gazette of the regional government. It would have been great if we could have that legislation in detail because sometimes interpretations are difficult. The old regulation that disappeared at least took a position. However, there were interpretation problems.
However, it's been replaced with the national plans and the national decrees. It's true that when those national decrees expire, because they are temporary, it'll be good to have an appropriate regulation in Catalonia. The main difficulty, just like back then, is the heterogeneity. As I've said, of the 170,000 people, sometimes we make mistakes, and that is the truth. There are different situations that we need to analyze, and therefore we apologize. It would be really helpful if the local authorities also complied with the law. One of the main problems that we have is that not all of them, but many local authorities in Catalonia do not fulfill the Law 24/2015. We ask them, and they do not respond to us. We've taken them to court.
We've asked them to stop being passive. It has reached the Supreme Court. It's taking so long that in the meantime, the councils have decided to ask the local courts to act. They haven't been diligent enough in their operations. How do we overcome that? With the agreements with the local authorities, and it's something that we work. We had 300 at the time. Now we have nearly 400 local agreements, and through our foundation, o ur foundation devotes most of its funds to help the society. The funds have increased for that foundation. Nearly 30,000 people have received employability training in the sector of energy.
The home renovations that we do with Cáritas, Red Cross, and 12 other charities in the sector meant that we have renovated a total of 1,100 homes. At the time we had the last AGM in IFEMA, it was only 400. We fulfill and comply with the legislation that exists. It will be great if all the local authorities also fulfill the law, not just some of them, and make sure that everyone that deserves it is protected, and we overcome this with the agreements with the local authorities. Ms. Campuzano, you probably require more information, so over the next few days, if you wish, we can go more in detail about this topic. I'll give the floor to Juan Carlos Lage. Or rather respond to Juan Carlos Lage about Cañada Real.
I'm gonna give you my opinion. First, I'm gonna tell you what the company, and this is the company's opinion, what we did during the famous winter of the cold snap that we had and the actions that we carried out in Cañada Real to prove what we wanted to do there. We took three initiatives during that cold snap. First, to put at everyone's disposal thermal and electricity energy at a time when, because of technical problems, there was no supply in any of the sectors of Cañada Real. There was an old factory that was abandoned, that was provided for them to go to. However, not many of them went, and we wanted to overcome the cold problems at the time.
Despite that, the company has a university in Puente Nuevo in Ávila that we put at the disposal of all families, and we provided them with transport to get there so that they could stay there during the cold snap. Despite the fact that the buses were there at Cañada Real, no one went on them. The company also provided heaters at our cost to be used if there were supply cuts at the time, electricity cuts. Those heaters were another demonstration that for us, energy cost was not important. What mattered to us were the people. Unfortunately, most of the heaters were resold and not used by the people in Cañada Real. This is the company's opinion.
The company is head by people with a heart and a soul. We want what's best for everyone, and we'll do whatever we can so that everyone gets what they deserve. In Cañada Real, there are sectors. Four of them have electricity supply. There's a fifth one that sometimes has some technical cuts, and a sixth section where electricity doesn't get to. It doesn't get to because of protection. Protection that has been regulated by the National Grid, the Spanish National Grid, and our electricity distribution in Cañada must comply with all the technical legislation in force. It's the protections that safeguard the supply that trip. Just like in our homes, if we are consuming more than what we have, it trips or if we have something connected that has a defect, it will trip. Well, it happens the same there.
We want the trips not to happen, but we have to comply with the current legislation in terms of electricity lines protections, because not only would we put us at risk that sector, but the whole of Cañada Real, which is not just a single sector. I agree with you. That the people who live in Cañada Real, some of them, those who are in sector six, do not have electricity. It's true, but I would like you to know why. This is not the will of companies, not the company's wish for them not to have electricity. These are technical restrictions that do not allow electricity to get there in order to protect the other inhabitants. If you allow me, Mr.
Chairman, in March, 7th of March 2022, finally, court number 10 of Madrid, the senior judge there accepted something that we have been asking for ages. It asked the city council of Rivas-Vaciamadrid to identify the people that are responsible for caring for those vulnerable people. I have to highlight the work of the mayor of Rivas-Vaciamadrid. We went during the cold snap to try and help those people because sector 6, there are only 2 customers, but there are 2 customers with a contract there. Those two customers are not being able to receive electricity because the protections keep tripping. With the legal support and with the help of the police, we disconnected all the connections that were putting at risk the network. We did this fulfilling the duty of the mayor of Rivas-Vaciamadrid.
A few days later, after the cold snap, all the illegal connections were made again. María del Carmen Gómez Pérez, the first thing I would like to say to you, and in honestly, is to apologize on behalf of the company if we've mistreated you. You laugh, but you need to understand that people can make mistakes. Whoever responded to your call shouldn't have harassed you. I apologize on behalf of the company because no customer of the company, whether they're vulnerable or not, in households, industrial in Catalonia or in Galicia, no customer should be mistreated by any of the staff that we have in customer support. The next thing I would like to say to you is that it's true, we have analyzed your dossier.
Is very specific because it wasn't considered vulnerable when the cut took place, as it's included in our files, and the secretary can give you more details about that. We are aware also because you were kind enough to say that if you were going to take the floor and we've been able to analyze your case in advance. In Catalonia, like in the other autonomous regions, we have agreements. Agreements that we fulfill. No autonomous region or city council has been able to complain to us or to state that we haven't fulfilled our commitments and agreements. We have fulfilled those agreements. If there are more to come, we will do so.
What the company wants is to have bilateral agreements with the local authorities, and it has to be done that way because we have to do it according to the law in common agreement with the autonomous regions and the town councils and city councils, right? Yes, it has to be done through agreements. That's what the regional government of Catalonia actually proposed. Unfortunately, Ms. Gómez Pérez, what we cannot do is to do specific solutions for specific cases because we have 11 million customers, each of them with their specificities, not because of vulnerability, but because of other issues. We would have a management problem, and we would be bad managers if we do not have standards or a standardized way of treating customers.
We'd like to apologize because 170,000 customers, and also at the time it was something new, and I am sure it didn't work properly. The details that we have are that you had a supply cut because of non-payment of a bill. I was informed that the milestones or that the regulation milestones were fulfilled, the deadlines and the notices. As soon as you presented the documents, I think it was the month after, the electricity supply was resumed in agreement with Law 24/2015. Since March 2016, a few weeks later, a month later, supply was resumed as soon as you provided us with all the documents. It was activated until recently, and I understand you've changed operator or the contract has a new holder. We apologize.
I am sure that we were not diligent enough in February, March 2016. I have to say it was all of this was very new at the time. We apologize, hopefully. It was solved in just a few weeks. To Mr. Carvallo, he explained in detail, he wanted more detailed information about the Lean project. I would like to start with initial statement that you made. We never said that we're gonna save EUR 500 million with the Lean project. We said in 2018 that we had a plan to save EUR 500 million in company's expenses in a 5-year period through many actions, one of which was the outsourcing of our services, and we did that. Dear shareholders, you probably remember it.
We wanted to do so because we wanted to be more competitive to face what was coming our way. We didn't know at the time what was coming our way, as it happened in 2020, if you remember. The value of the Lean societies in our books is intangible because the assets were transferred to other companies. However, Lean has continued to provide services to the company in the year 2022 with a total of EUR 140 million. Well, the company has still requested the services of the Lean companies, and we continue to do so based on the contracts that were signed in the year 2019. Obviously, since the split, the company has, we have our own life, and we cannot be held responsible for the daily management of that company.
With regard to what you were saying on some of the contracts terminations in Lean, we haven't received any complaint about our code of ethics, so we have no further details to give you. There haven't been any investigations into any breach of compliance. No, I am in charge of the code of ethics, and if there were any complaints, we would look into it, obviously, but we haven't received any complaints. With regard to the question of Miss Sonia Prieto about what we can expect from biomethane and what can we expect from Naturgy's evolution in the gas business as a consequence of our desires and objectives for biomethane, I would like to say two things. Biomethane is clearly part of the solution and is compatible with the company's long-term strategy.
The gas will continue to play a key role in the long term, and so will the gas distribution infrastructures in the long term. Also the biomethane's ability to replace a traditional fossil gas, and biomethane is the alternative that offers lower emissions and more environmentally friendly. We wish, and our desires are very high, we want to keep at least our the gas, but market share that we have with biomethane. Thanks to biomethane, we hope to be able to increase our share in that sector. For that, we need several things. First, investment. We need to invest a lot. Also because we need to you know, to treat the waste and inject biomethane in the networks.
We need to find locations for the investment because as you all know, in this country, everyone wants solutions, but no one wants it in their backyard. No one wants to provide the locations. The time. I ask for patience because investments in an industrial world do not happen overnight. Probably in the next AGM, we'll be able to explain to you the advancements made in terms of biomethane because it's one of our growth axes for the future. Ms. Belén Pérez, about the energy prices. As I said before, when we talked about the future outlook, the energy prices in 2023 will continue, like in 2022, they'll continue to be volatile and uncertain. Talking about prices for the year 23 would be premature.
If you invest five minutes of your time on the Internet to analyze the evolution or the performance of the features on oil, gas, et cetera, you will see how much they change on a daily basis. Having said that, the company is now better prepared than we were in the past to face the volatility and uncertainty. Secondly, the work of all the professionals, especially those that work on energy management, well, what they want is to make sure that the energy volatility doesn't translate into results volatility. We can work on that. We can work on international pricing.
In this pricing is intangible. There's not much we can do about it.
To Mr. Aguirre, talking about gas. I do apologize, give me a second. Supply security. You said it in a slot, let me recall a major data. More than 30% of the gas used in Spain has come through the contracts that Naturgy has, both with providers, that in this case it's Sonatrach, which provides gas through the pipelines, also with many other providers that provide gas by means of tankers, liquefied natural gas, LNG. With both groups, what we do amongst other things is we keep contracts that are long, long-term take-or-pay contracts. What are they? They financially compel the company, oblige the company to whether we buy or not buy, we pay.
Just as any other contract which is relevant and complicated that compels to, for a gas supplier to be paid no matter the, if the, gas contracted is used or not. This is what companies such as Naturgy do to secure supply. We commit our financial balance to whether we buy or we don't buy, we have to pay. Let me highlight the value of these kind of contracts that we have for 2030, 2040, which entail financial commitments that are relevant, that are part of our commitments, for the future of the company, and they're part of the essence of these companies.
Measuring the health of the company and qualifying the results of the company without having in mind all these commitments that we have on the long run would be just having a biased approach of the company and seeing just one side of the coin. What we do to ensure the gas supply is long-term contracts with major financial commitments. What we do to guarantee electricity is we maintain installations such as combined cycles that are facilities of gas turbines that are dispersed around Spain. We've got 17 operational stations that have operated for certain months of 2022. In the month of October, they were up for many days at 100% power and running.
What the company does is they're fully maintained so that they can be started as soon as when needed. This is not normal because these are complex facilities, expensive, with a very expensive maintenance. As we have requested to the ministry, oftentimes they would need to be paid per capacity to make sure that this availability is really there for any situation at long term. What Naturgy is doing there to guarantee electricity supply is to have these equipments available at any times, and that has a risk that we undertake because sometimes they are used, sometimes they're not used. In 2022, we had to use them. In 2021, they were used just at 50% of what was used in 2022. To Mr.
González and his request about knowing if there are advances in the renewable generation investments. As you've seen, yes, renewable investments are renewable generation is part of the strategic objective to make the company growth with grow with investments at around 60%. Slightly above 60%, 60% of the investment in 2022 were devoted to increase the wind and photovoltaic renewable generation fleets. In the future, we will continue in that track because this is one of the clear strategic lines for growth for the company. It is true that you can read a lot and hear a lot about renewable generation. What we do rather than writing is investing, and that investment is committed, and that commitment is seen in the figures.
We've got a plan for that in the coming years, investments go above EUR 8 billion. These investments have an origin because the company has to generate the results that will allow us to carry out these investments. Let me relate this question on how we are advancing in investment to generation, enough generation of treasury, allowing us to, with that treasury generation, to have money to invest in what will provide us on the long run with a competitive position in the world of the energy supply, which is changing greatly. Mr. Secretary, I think all questions have been addressed, right? Secretary will explain how we're meeting the recommendations of CNMV in terms of corporate governance.
Yes, one of the recommendations is precisely to present the follow-up of the 64 recommendations published by the CNMV.
six of them are not to be applied to Naturgy. For example, having a listed subsidiary. Out of the 58, the company meets, at 31st December 2022, fully 46 of them. Out of the rest, nine were partially met, and three we have an explanation issued. I will refer to these last two groups. As for the 3 recommendations with an explanation, the board considers that is not adequate to Naturgy because recommendation 17 on the number of independent board members, because if we were to complete that, which is more than half of the independent board members, we will not be meeting the law of capital share, Capital Companies Act.
Recommendation 48, which it says to separate the appointments committee from the remunerations committee, separating that will be against the objective of simplifying Naturgy. For the partially met recommendations, some are, the objectives are made by other ways. For example, the long-term incentive approved in 2019, then later modified in 2022 with a timeframe, which is bigger than what's recommended. They recommend 3 years, and we have 8 years. As we have 8 years, that doesn't match with the models that are established in recommendations 58 or 62. Another recommendation is for the internal working of the board of directors. It is not necessary to do any modifications, such as 25, to establish a maximum number of board of directors that they.
limiting the board, the companies that they can assist the board of directors. We have had 22 meetings with the full commitment of our board of directors, this recommendation is not applicable to our company.
Thank you very much. Sorry, no microphone being used. The president is not using microphone. Let me now read the proposals to be approved by the shareholders. The resolutions. If there are sufficient majority, we will just say if each proposal has been approved, depending on the votes that we have on the table without having to counting on all the votings that we're already aware of. We won't explain which favors are in favor, against, or abstentions. If there were tied voting, we will have to give all these details.
I propose that if the people present in the room wanting to vote against or to abstain, just raise your hand before the reading of any proposal and after reading of each proposal. Then please, after, come with me and approach the notary public to this table to give the details of your number, your name, and the number of shares that you present, and in which sense you want to vote, so that this is recorded in the minutes of the AGM. If you want to vote remotely, you will be do it through the voting form, and that is available, so your votes will be counted and will be communicated to the notary public, and they will be registered in the minutes. You can vote at any time. You don't need to wait for the proposals to be read.
The result will be examined by you as of tomorrow in the website of the company in the section AGM 2022 Quorum, Voting, and Resolutions. Finally, let me inform that the points of the agenda that with there are more extends in its drafting, I will make a summary because this drafting has been available since the call of the board of the AGM. To approve the annual accounts and the management report as corresponding to the year 2022 as figures of 31st December 2022. Is it approved? There's a question? Sorry, no microphone being used. Sorry, The interpreters apologize, but the person taking the floor is not using a microphone. As soon as a microphone is given to this gentleman, the interpreters will be able to hear and then translate what is being said. Thank you for that comment.
We will take note, the president says, and that so shall we do. Out of the nature of this company and its complexity in the number of companies, though the information is available since long, I know it is too tedious, and a good summary will, if it is helpful from next year onwards, we will provide that summary. Thank you for that recommendation. Is it approved? Point, proposal number one? It is approved. Second proposal, to approve the annual accounts consolidated and the management report of the consolidated group, Naturgy Energy Group, corresponding to the fiscal year, 31st December 2022. Is it approved? It is approved. We need to set a norm and to. By norm, we have to put this separately.
Propose the third proposal to approve the consolidated non-financial report consolidated, including the consolidated management report of Naturgy Energy Group. Is it approved? It is approved. Fourth proposal, to approve the following proposal to apply the result of the social business year as of 31st December 2022. EUR 3.75 billion. Distributing a dividend. It's an amount of the addition of the following two calculations. EUR 679 million corresponding to the two dividends already paid by Naturgy that represent EUR 0.07 per share, depending on the number of shares you may have. And a second amount, which is added to 679, which is the complimentary dividend, which was approved by the board over, which is EUR 0.50 by number of shares with a right to be paid, and depending on your...
the amount of shares you have. Out of that dividend, we have already paid EUR 679 million on the 18th of October and the 18th of August 2022. The payment of the complimentary dividend will be done on the next 4th of April. We need to have your authorization for the board with to be able to carry out all the necessary actions to pay this dividend and to appoint the entity that will act as the payment entity. The second figure is the one of the ones to be paid out as a remnant, the pending amount reaching EUR 3.755 billion. To propose, to propose the approval of the management done by the board of directors last year. Is it approved? Approved.
Sixth proposal, to approve the annual accounts on the remunerations of the board's members approved by the board of directors on February 14, 2023. The text is available of the shareholders. Is it approved? It's approved. Re-election and appointment of board members. We have four sections here. First, 7.1, to reappoint for four years Mr. Francisco Reynés Massanet with the same conditions as executive board member. The board member is present at this event, would accept the position. There's no incompatibility registered. Is it approved? Approved. 7.2, re-elect for four years Mr. Claudi Santiago Ponsa with the same position as he's been, independent board member. He would accept this post. There's no legal incompatibility. Is it approved? Approved. Reappoint for four years Mr.
Pedro Sainz de Baranda with the same position as he's had as an independent board member. The board member is present at this event, so he accepts the position, and there's no legal incompatibility. Is it approved? Approved. 7.4, appoint for 4 years since the moment that this agreement is approved by the general shareholders meeting, Mr. José Antonio de Torres-Silva López de Letona, replacing Theatre Directorship Services Beta, which will continue the independent board member. Is it approved? The board member is present, so he takes the position, and there's no legal incompatibility. Eighth proposal, to authorize, approve, according to Article 515 of the Capital Companies Act, that shareholders meetings when extraordinary can be called with a minimum 15-day term with
if the company offers the shareholders the possibility to vote remote, in remote way. This authorization is only punctual and only valid until the next ordinary shareholders meeting. Is it approved? Approved. Proposal nine is not to be approved. It's just as of information. We are informing the shareholders meeting the changes in the bylaws of the board of administrators for 2022. Article 27 with the Sustainability Committee has been changed. We have modified Article 7, regulating the percentage of minimum assistance to the board members and stating them that we're at above 99%, but it's a recommendation, we have included that in the bylaws. A new Article 9 based to establish the different member categories that can be part of the board of directors. The AGM is informed.
10th proposal, 10.1, to delegate in the board of directors the institution, the president, Secretary, or the board members, as widely as possible, as many faculties for complementing, developing, executing, and formalizing any of the agreements adopted by the shareholders meeting and carry out any net modifications and additions necessary or to have a good the term of the agreements. 10.2, to delegate and the Secretary to represent any of them and to underwrite any private documents and public documents necessary to execute the agreements and to register them in the correspondent registries in order to change without altering their scope, nature, or content. Is it approved? It's approved.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Dear ladies and gentlemen, shareholders, we reach the end of this event with
for its 180th shareholders meeting. On behalf of the board of directors, thank you to the shareholders that have come and that are present. Thank you for the support given to the proposals that have been requested to be approved today. We hope to see you in coming shareholder meetings in coming years. As I say, we hope that you will see that the company, Naturgy, has a bright future ahead, with great opportunities, where all the employees in the company, we try to contribute with our best efforts. Thank you for coming