The Finnish Nature League FNL

Excerpt from the UPM-Kymmene web site

Summons to the Annual General Meeting

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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