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Excerpt
from the UPM-Kymmene web site
Summons
to the Annual General Meeting
[...]
The following
matters will be dealt with at the meeting:
4. On the
basis of Section 7, Chapter 9 of the Companies Act
4.1
The proposal made by the shareholders Otso Ovaskainen, Annina Käppi,
Tuomas Rantanen, Matti Ikonen, Matti Liimatainen, Otto Miettinen
and Olli Turunen that UPM-Kymmene Corporation should reconsider
its wood procurement policy in Finland in such a manner that the
Company discontinues its timber purchases from the forest areas
of the Forest and Park Service of Finland located in Northern and
Eastern Finland which are considered valuable from the point of
view of nature conservation and which have been defined in the map
delivered to the Forest and Park Service by five Finnish organisations
for nature conservation and environmental protection on 26th January,
1998.
4.2
The proposal made by the aforementioned shareholders that UPM-Kymmene
Corporation should reconsider its strategy for biodiversity in such
a manner that the Company undertakes on its own initiative to preserve
the ancient forests owned by the Company and valuable from the point
of view of nature conservation as well as other forest areas which
are considered important for the protection of endangered species
of flora and fauna in Southern Finland.
THE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF UPM-KYMMENE IS ON MARCH 21, 2000
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