Translation of "Stimmrechte ausüben" in English

The board would not exercise voting rights as they would be exercised by employees in the enterprise where the shares were issued.

Shareholders may exercise their rights and vote at the Annual General Meeting.

Since a particular effort is needed to attract investors from other Member States and third countries, Member States should no longer prevent shareholders, persons exercising voting rights, or holders of financial instruments, from making the required notifications to the issuer in a language that is customary in the sphere of international finance.

However, EU-citizens holding shares in a listed company situated in another Member State often face severe problems when they wish to exercise the voting rights attaching to these shares and sometimes even encounter obstacles that make voting practically impossible.

Whereas the holdings of an individual security holder might not necessarily meet the thresholds provided for, the situation may considerably differ with regard to custodian banks, investment funds, proxies and others who may exercise voting rights on behalf of numerous security holders.

In the circumstances referred to in point (h) of Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC, if a shareholder gives the proxy in relation to one shareholder meeting, notification may be made by means of a single notification at the moment of giving the proxy provided that it is made clear in the notification what the resulting situation in terms of voting rights will be when the proxy may no longer exercise the voting rights at its discretion.

If, in the circumstances referred to in point (h) of Article 10, the proxy holder receives one or several proxies in relation to one shareholder meeting, notification may be made by means of a single notification at the moment of receiving the proxies provided that it is made clear in the notification what the resulting situation in terms of voting rights will be when the proxy may no longer exercise the voting rights at its discretion.

Where financial intermediaries are involved, the effectiveness of voting upon instructions relies, to a great extent, on the efficiency of the chain of intermediaries, given that investors are frequently unable to exercise the voting rights attached to their shares without the cooperation of every intermediary in the chain, who may not have an economic stake in the shares.

In order to enable the investor to exercise his voting rights in cross-border situations, it is therefore important that intermediaries facilitate the exercise of voting rights.

The fact that it takes 30 days before the investor can exercise its voting rights does not stop the investor from having the current ability to direct the relevant activities from the moment the investor acquires the shareholding.

Where in accordance with this Article there is more than one participant from a college member, or there are more college members belonging to the same Member State than number of votes that can be exercised by those college members in accordance with Article 19(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, that college member or those college members shall inform the college which participants shall exercise voting rights.

In this case, in the absence of any additional arrangements that alter decision-making, the assessment of control focuses on which party, if any, is able to exercise voting rights sufficient to determine the investee’s operating and financing policies (see paragraphs B34–B50).

Therefore, institutional investors and asset managers should develop a policy on shareholder engagement, which determines, amongst others, how they integrate shareholder engagement in their investment strategy, monitor investee companies, conduct dialogues with investee companies and exercise voting rights.

By exception to this principle, the Merger Regulation (Article 7(3) allows companies to implement public bids and acquire the shares of the target company even prior to the Commissions final decision provided that the acquirer does not exercise the voting rights attached to the shares without prior Commission approval.

These last two recommendations certainly fall within the second potential subject of company law for harmonisation mentioned by Professor Davies i.e.: the ability of shareholders to effectively exercise their voting rights.

Merger control law in the European Union the acquiring undertaking must not exercise the voting fights with a view to determining the strategic commercial behaviour of the target company or must exercise these rights only with a view to preparing the total or partial disposal of the undertaking, its assets or securities, decisions.

There shall be no control of an undertaking within the meaning of Article 1 where, upon formation of an undertaking or increase of its capital, banks or financial institutions acquire shares in that undertaking with a view to selling them on the market but do not exercise voting rights in respect of those shares.

Persons that wish to exercise voting rights must provide written proof that they are bondholders or authorised to represent a bondholder.

In that Report, it is recommended that the rights and obligations of accountholders and securities intermediaries be regulated at EU level, to ensure that accountholders across the EU can effectively exercise the voting rights on shares they hold.

France Telecom: Employee shareholders want voting rights to be exercised by employee shareholders themselves rather than by employers or by unions.

Voting rights may be exercised by shareholders who are registered in the share register on the record date stated in the invitation to the respective Shareholders' Meeting.

In the context of the current restructuring of Schaltbau, during the last few months several shareholder groups have joined forces to exercise their voting rights in concert.

Where a full member who has the right to vote is absent, his or her substitute may exercise that right.

Within area of its competence, the European Economic Community is entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of its Member States which are Contracting Parties' to the present Convention.

It may exercise its right to vote in cases where the Member States do not exercise theirs.

It shall not exercise its right to vote in cases where the member States exercise theirs and conversely.

How can I exercise my voting rights without attending the annual shareholder meeting?

Shareholders who are unable to attend in person may exercise their voting rights through these representatives.

The Annual General Meeting, in particular, offers shareholders the opportunity to present questions to MTU executives and to exercise their voting rights.

In the absence of any specific provision relating to the situation of the Community, it is understood that, unlike in other environmental agreements, the Community and its Member States are expected to cast a vote.

Such organisations shall not exercise their right to vote if their member States exercise theirs and vice versa.

Such an intergovernmental organisation shall not exercise the rights to vote of its member States if its member States exercise their right to vote, and vice versa.

In my view, on this occasion, for such an important vote, it is all the more vital that we British MEPs exercise our right to vote in the Parliament and express what we judge to be the views of our constituents.

Such an organization shall not exercise its right to vote if any of its Member States exercises its right, and vice-versa;

In today's financial world, investors depend heavily on intermediaries to provide them with information and voting services if they want to exercise their voting rights.

The ECB was not content with merely being the first Community body to break the representativeness rule by not comprising nationals of every Member State, or with its Statute being altered to ensure that members of this committee have permanent voting rights, unlike those on the governing boards of Central Banks, who exercise their right to vote on a rotation basis.

Governors will exercise their voting right with different frequencies depending on the relative size of their NCB 's Member State 's economy within the euro area .

In order to maintain the Governing Council 's capacity for efficient and timely decision-making as its membership increases substantially , the Governing Council agreed that the number of NCB Governors exercising a voting right should not exceed 15 .

All members of the Governing Council will continue to attend meetings in a personal and independent capacity , and the « one member , one vote » principle will continue to apply to NCB Governors exercising a voting right .

Governors will exercise their voting right with different frequencies depending on the relative size of their NCB's Member State's economy within the euro area.