Good morning, or afternoon, or evening, depending on where you are located. My name is Jon Arnt Jacobsen. I am a member of the board of the company, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this virtual general meeting, where all shareholders have the opportunity to participate digitally. I would like to thank all of you who have logged on today. Some practical information initially. You have four buttons on the top of your screen that you can click on: Home, Messages, Voting, and Documents. By pressing Home, you will find additional technical details about how this works, and I recommend that you read the text entered there. Messages give you the opportunity to see messages sent in from other shareholders, as well as allowing you to enter written questions and comments for the general meeting yourself, if you so desire.
The Document buttons give you a copy of the notice and other associated documents. The Voting button takes you to items to be adopted here today. We have now closed for additional shareholders to log in, and we will move on to the list of represented shares. I will, however, inform you that we will keep the voting open throughout the meeting. Freddy Hermansen from DNB will now present the participants.
Thank you, Jon Arnt. Freddy from DNB represented here today. We have advance votes from 52,604,581 shares. We have proxies to Chair of the Board for 52,991 shares, and we have one shareholder attending and voting online for own shares and proxy shares of a total of 180,000 shares. In total, this is 52,847,572 shares represented, constituting 50.85% of share capital. Thank you.
Thank you, Freddy. Let's now move on to review the first item on the agenda, which is opening of the general meeting and registration of attending shareholders. We have not received any comments regarding this item and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted or wants to change their vote, please do so now. Given proxies and advance votes, this item has now received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. The exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. Next item on the agenda is election of chair of the meeting and one person to co-sign the minutes. We have not received any comments regarding this item. The board has proposed that I be elected as chair of the meeting and that Marit Moen Vik-Langlie , our board secretary, volunteers to co-sign the minutes. We will now proceed to the vote.
If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. The item has received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Again, exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item is approval of notice and agenda. The board's proposal for resolution is the notice of and agenda for the meeting are approved. The nomination committee has issued a revised proposal prior to the meeting regarding election to the nomination committee. The vote on number nine has been updated to reflect this. Again, we have not received any comments regarding this item, and we will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. I'm repeating myself. The item has received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed.
Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item on the agenda is approval of annual financial statements and board of directors report for 2024. The board's proposal for resolution is the general meeting approves the financial statements and the annual report of the board of directors for 2024. We have not received any comments regarding this item, and we will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. This item has also received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. Next item on the agenda is the advisory vote on the board's report on remuneration for leading persons for 2024.
The board's proposal for resolution is general meeting takes note of the report on remuneration on leading persons in OKEA. We have not received any comments regarding this item, and we will proceed to vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. Again, this item has received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. Next item on the agenda is advisory vote on the board statement of corporate governance. The board's proposal for resolution is the general meeting takes note of the statement on corporate governance. We have not received any comments to this item either and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted or wants to change, please do so now. The item has received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed.
Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. Next item on the agenda is approval of auditors' remuneration. The board's proposal for resolution is as follows. The general meeting approves the auditors' remuneration of NOK 3,078,000 for the ordinary audit of the 2024 annual financial statements. We have not received any comments to this item either and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. Again, this item has received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item is election of board members. The board proposes that the general meeting makes a resolution in accordance with the proposal from the nomination committee. The proposal from the nomination committee has been available on OKEA's web page.
We have not received any comments regarding this item either and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, this is the time for doing so. This item has also received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. Next item is election of chair and member of the nomination committee. As mentioned, following the publication of the notice to the annual general meeting, the chair of the nomination committee decided to withdraw from the committee with effect from the annual general meeting. The proposal from the nomination committee has therefore been revised to reflect this change. As a consequence, the advance votes on this matter will not be taken into consideration.
As the board has approved the revised proposal from the nomination committee, the proxy votes to the chair of the board will, on the other hand, be taken into consideration. The board proposes that the general meeting makes a resolution in accordance with the revised proposal from the nomination committee. The revised proposal is as follows. The nomination committee proposed to re-elect Sverre Strandenes for a term of two years. The committee further proposed to elect Finn Haugan as a new chair and Rawee Boonsinsukh as a new member, both for the term of two years. The revised proposal from the nomination committee has also been available on OKEA's web page. We ask you to vote on each of the members individually. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, this is the time.
The item has received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item is approval of the board and the committee remuneration. The board proposes that the general meeting makes a resolution in accordance with the proposal from the nomination committee. The proposal from the nomination committee has been available on OKEA's web page. We have not received any comments to this item either, and we will proceed to vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. The item has received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item is board authorization to issue shares.
The proposal from the board is included in the notice to the general meeting, and I will therefore not read through the proposal here. We have not received any comments to this item either and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted or wants to change their vote, please do so now. This item has also received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The next item is board authorization to distribute dividends. The proposal from the board is included in the notice to the general meeting, and I will therefore not read through the proposal here. We have surprisingly not received any comments to this item either and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now.
The item has received sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. The last item on the agenda is board authorization to acquire treasury shares. The proposal from the board is included in the notice to the annual general meeting, and I will therefore not read through the proposal here. We have not received any comments regarding this item and will proceed to the vote. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their vote, please do so now. The item has received a sufficient majority and has been adopted as proposed. Exact figures will appear in the minutes published after the meeting. As this was the final agenda item on our annual general meeting for this year, I would like to thank all of you for your participation and for following OKEA.
Thank you and have a nice day.