Board of Directors reviews issues pertaining to annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom

The Gazprom Board of Directors addressed issues associated with arranging and holding the Company's annual General Shareholders Meeting.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors, it was resolved to hold the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom in the form of absentee voting and to set the deadline for ballot submission as June 30, 2023. The Meeting quorum and the voting results will be determined on the basis of votes represented by voting ballots and declarations of intention received before 06:00 pm (Moscow time) on June 29, 2023.

Electronic ballots can be filled out at the elgol.draga.ru website in the period from June 9, 2023, to 6:00 pm (Moscow Time) on June 29, 2023. There is also an option to fill out the ballots in hard copy and send them by mail to the address: Gazprom, BOX 1255, St. Petersburg, 190900, or deliver them in person to the address: 2/3 Lakhtinsky Ave., Bldg. 1, St. Petersburg.

The Board of Directors approved the agenda of Gazprom's annual General Shareholders Meeting consisting of the following items:

• on the approval of the Company's Annual Report;
• on the approval of the Company's Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements;
• on the approval of the distribution of the Company's profit based on the results of 2022;
• on the amount, period and form of the dividend payout based on the results of 2022, as well as on the date when a list of persons entitled to receive dividends is drawn up;
• on the appointment of the Company's Auditor;
• on the remuneration for the Board of Directors Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;
• on the remuneration for the Audit Commission Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;
• on the amendments to the Articles of Association of Gazprom;
• on the amendments to the Regulation on the General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom;
• on the amendments to the Regulation on the Board of Directors of Gazprom;
• on the amendments to the Regulation on the Management Committee of Gazprom;
• on the election of the Company's Board of Directors Members;
• on the election of the Company's Audit Commission Members.

The Board of Directors formed the Shareholders Meeting Presidium made up of the Gazprom Board of Directors Members and approved the Company's Board of Directors Chairman Viktor Zubkov as the Chairman of the Shareholders Meeting.

The Board of Directors recommended that the Shareholders Meeting approve the distribution of Gazprom's profit based on the results of 2022.

The Board of Directors recommended that the Shareholders Meeting neither declare nor pay out dividends based on Gazprom's performance in 2022, taking into account the interim dividends payout based on the Company's performance in the first half of 2022.

A total of RUB 1.2 trillion was allocated for the interim dividend payout based on the results of the first half of 2022, which is an all-time high in the history of Gazprom and Russia's stock market alike.

The meeting resolved to provisionally endorse and submit to the Shareholders Meeting for consideration the 2022 Annual Report of Gazprom and the 2022 Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements of Gazprom prepared in accordance with the Russian legislation.

The meeting approved the proposals on the amounts of remuneration for the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission Members of Gazprom.

The Board of Directors reviewed the results of the open tender held in electronic form to select an auditing company responsible for performing the statutory annual audit of Gazprom for the years 2023–2025 and nominated FBK for appointment as the Company's Auditor by the General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom.

The Board of Directors endorsed the Report on related-party transactions executed by Gazprom in 2022.

The Board of Directors approved and submitted to the Shareholders Meeting for consideration the draft amendments to Gazprom's Articles of Association, as well as to the regulations on the General Shareholders Meeting, the Board of Directors, and the Management Committee of the Company. The amendments had been made mainly in line with the changes in the Federal Law on Joint Stock Companies.

In addition, the Board of Directors adopted decisions on other issues associated with arranging and holding the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom.