GETLINK SE: 2025 Annual General Meeting: Proposal for a New Board of Statutory Auditors

29 Oct 2024 18:00 CET

Regulatory News:

Following the meeting held on 24 October 2024, the Board of Directors of GETLINK SE (Paris:GET) has decided to submit to the 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting, which will approve the accounts for the financial year 2024:

• the appointment of Deloitte & Associés as Statutory Auditors for a term of 6 years in replacement of KPMG, whose term of office will expire on that date;
• the reappointment of Forvis Mazars as Statutory Auditors for a period of 6 years.

Jean-Marc Janaillac, Chairman of the Audit Committee, said: "GETLINK SE's Audit Committee has decided to select the new board of Statutory Auditors, whose terms of office will begin at the end of the 2025 General Meeting in order to ensure a smooth transition and maintain the high quality of the Group's auditing. The selection process carried out under the supervision of the Audit Committee led the latter to recommend to the Board of Directors the reappointment of Forvis Mazars and the appointment of Deloitte & Associés, whose teams demonstrated, in a call for tenders, their ability to audit the accounts of GETLINK SE and its subsidiaries in accordance with best practice. We would like to thank all the firms that took part in the tender process for the quality of their applications.”

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About Getlink

Getlink SE (Euronext Paris: GET), through its subsidiary Eurotunnel, is the concession holder until 2086 for the Channel Tunnel infrastructure and operates Truck Shuttles and Passenger Shuttles (cars and coaches) between Folkestone (UK) and Calais (France). Since 31 December 2020 Eurotunnel has been developing the smart border to ensure that the Tunnel remains the fastest, most reliable, easiest and most environmentally friendly way to cross the Channel. Since it opened in 1994, more than 500 million people and more than 102 million vehicles have travelled through the Channel Tunnel. This unique land link, which carries a quarter of trade between the Continent and the United Kingdom, has become a vital link, reinforced by the ElecLink electricity interconnector installed in the Tunnel, which helps to balance energy needs between France and the United Kingdom. Getlink completes its sustainable mobility services with its rail freight subsidiary Europorte. Committed to "low-carbon" services that control their impact on the environment (through its activities, the Group avoids the equivalent of 1.9 million tonnes of CO₂ per year), Getlink has made the place of people, nature and territories a central concern.

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