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58. The Remunerations Committee should consult the company’s Chairman and chief executive, especially on
matters related to executive directors and senior executives.
Compliant
G - Other Information of interest
If you think that there is any relevant principle or aspect in relation to the corporate governance practices applied by
your company which has not been dealt with in this report, mention it and give an explanation below.
A table detailing the individual remuneration of directors is attached hereto as complementary information to
section B.1.11 and following.
Remuneration of Directors – 2008
(in thousand euros)
Concept Felipe Benjumea Llorente:
Javier Benjumea Llorente:
Miguel A. Jiménez-Velasco Mazario:
José Luis Aya Abaurre:
José Joaquín Abaurre Llorente:
José B. Terceiro Lomba:
Aplidig, S.L. (1):
Carlos Sebastián Gascón:
Daniel Villalba Vilá:
Mercedes Gracia Díez:
Miguel Martín Fernández:
Alicia Valiente Velarde:
Maria Teresa Benjumea Llorente:
Ignacio Solís Guardiola:
Fernando Solís Martínez-Campos:
Carlos Sundhein Losada:
Total:
Allowances for Attendance and other Remunerations as Director
93
78
0
110
110
0
200
166
166
110
99
92
78
78
78
78
1,536
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Concept Remuneration for membership of Board Committees
Felipe Benjumea Llorente:
0
Javier Benjumea Llorente:
0
Miguel A. Jiménez-Velasco Mazario:
0
José Luis Aya Abaurre:
55
José Joaquín Abaurre Llorente:
55
José B. Terceiro Lomba:
0
Aplidig, S.L. (1):
0
Carlos Sebastián Gascón:
83
Daniel Villalba Vilá:
138
Mercedes Gracia Díez:
55
Miguel Martín Fernández:
55
Alicia Valiente Velarde:
33
Maria Teresa Benjumea Llorente:
0
Ignacio Solís Guardiola:
0
Fernando Solís Martínez-Campos:
0
Carlos Sundhein Losada:
0
Total:
474
Concept Remuneration as a Director in other Group Companies
Felipe Benjumea Llorente:
Javier Benjumea Llorente:
Miguel A. Jiménez-Velasco Mazario:
José Luis Aya Abaurre:
José Joaquín Abaurre Llorente:
José B. Terceiro Lomba:
Aplidig, S.L. (1):
Carlos Sebastián Gascón:
Daniel Villalba Vilá:
Mercedes Gracia Díez:
Miguel Martín Fernández:
Alicia Valiente Velarde:
Maria Teresa Benjumea Llorente:
Ignacio Solís Guardiola:
Fernando Solis Martínez-Campos:
Carlos Sundhein Losada:
Total:
224
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0
0
0
0
0
21
0
26
26
0
0
0
24
0
0
0
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ConceptRemuneration for Senior Management functions – Executive Directors
Felipe Benjumea Llorente:
3,407
Javier Benjumea Llorente:
672
Miguel A. Jiménez-Velasco Mazario:
204
José Luis Aya Abaurre:
0
José Joaquín Abaurre Llorente:
0
José B. Terceiro Lomba:
0
Aplidig, S.L. (1):
2,756
Carlos Sebastián Gascón:
0
Daniel Villalba Vilá:
0
Mercedes Gracia Díez:
0
Miguel Martín Fernández:
0
Alicia Valiente Velarde:
0
Maria Teresa Benjumea Llorente:
0
Ignacio Solís Guardiola:
0
Fernando Solís Martínez-Campos:
0
Carlos Sundhein Losada:
0
Total:
7,039
Concept
Felipe Benjumea Llorente:
Javier Benjumea Llorente:
Miguel A. Jiménez-Velasco Mazario:
José Luis Aya Abaurre:
José Joaquín Abaurre Llorente:
José B. Terceiro Lomba:
Aplidig, S.L. (1):
Carlos Sebastián Gascón:
Daniel Villalba Vilá:
Mercedes Gracia Díez:
Miguel Martín Fernández:
Alicia Valiente Velarde:
Maria Teresa Benjumea Llorente:
Ignacio Solís Guardiola:
Fernando Solís Martínez-Campos:
Carlos Sundhein Losada:
Total:
Total
3,500
750
204
165
165
21
2,956
275
330
165
154
125
102
78
78
78
9,146
The Board of Directors is currently composed of fifteen members. The Board Regulations govern the composition, functions and
internal organisation of the governing body. In addition, there is an Internal Code of Conduct with regard to the Securities Market,
whose scope of application covers members of the Board of Directors, senior management and all those employees who, due
to their positions or responsibilities, may be affected by its content. The Operational Regulations of the General Shareholders’
Meeting regulate the formal and internal aspects of shareholders’ meetings. Finally, the Board of Directors is assisted by the
Audit Committee and the Appointments and Remuneration Committee, which have their own Internal Regulations. All these
regulations, brought together in a revised text of the Internal Corporate Governance Regulations, are available at the company
website, HYPERLINK “http://www.abengoa.com” www.abengoa.com. Since its inception, the Appointments and Remuneration
Committee has been analysing the structure of the company’s governing bodies and has been working to adapt the structure
to incorporate corporate governance recommendations, paying particular attention to the historic and special configuration of
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these bodies within Abengoa. In accordance with this analysis, in February 2007 the Committee recommended the creation of
the post of coordinating director, coupled with the elimination of the Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors. The first
measure was in order to incorporate the most recent corporate governance recommendations, as created in Spain in 2006;
the second measure was proposed because the Committee considered that the Advisory Committee had already fulfilled the
function for which it was originally created and that its coexistence with the corporate bodies could lead to conflicts of powers.
Both proposals were approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors in February 2007 and by the General Shareholders’
Meeting of April 15th of that same year.
Finally, in October 2007, the Committee proposed to the Board that it should accept the resignation of Mr. Javier Benjumea
Llorente from his position as Vice-Chairman, with the consequent revocation of his delegated powers and the appointment of
a new natural person to represent Abengoa or the Focus-Abengoa Foundation in those entities or companies in which it has an
appointed position.
The Committee then considered it advisable to recommence its study on the number and the condition of the Vice-Chairman
of the Board of Directors within the current structure of the governing bodies.
As a result of this, the Committee thought it necessary for the Vice-Chairman of Abengoa to have the powers conferred by
the Spanish Public Limited Companies Act (Ley de Sociedades Anónimas) with regard to the organic representation of the
company, on the one hand, and, on the other, as a counterweight to the functions of the Chairman within the
Board of Directors. On this basis, it considered that the coordinating director – with the functions assigned to said
position by the resolutions of the Board of Directors (February 2007) and the General Shareholders’ Meeting (April
2007) – was the ideal figure, given the corporate governance recommendations and the structure of the company,
as well as the composition and diversity of its administrators. The coordinating director has already been entrusted
with the task of coordinating the concerns and motivations of the other Board members, and therefore has the
power to request that a Board meeting be convened and that new items be included on the agenda. In its role
as the visible head of Board members’ interests, it has, more de facto than de jure, a certain representative nature
within the Board, and it therefore seemed appropriate to confirm and expand this representation by making the post both
institutional and organic.
For the reasons outlined above, the Committee proposed Aplicaciones Digitales, S. L. (Aplidig, represented by Mr. José B.
Terceiro Lomba), the current coordinating director, as the new Vice-Chairman to the Board of Directors. In addition, and within
its functions of organic representation, the current Vice-Chairman, jointly with the Chairman of the Board, was put forward as
the physical representative of Abengoa in its capacity as the Chair of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, as well as in any other
foundations and institutions in which the company is or has to be represented.
In view of the above, on December 10th, 2007, the Board of Directors agreed to appoint Aplicaciones Digitales, S. L.
(represented by Mr. José B. Terceiro Lomba), the current coordinating director, as the executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of
Directors, with the express consent of the independent directors for the company to continue acting as coordinating director in
spite of its new appointment as executive Vice-Chairman.
In addition, and within its functions of organic representation (conferred by means of a power of attorney granted by the
Board of Directors on July 23rd, 2007), the Vice-Chairman, jointly with the Chairman of the Board of Directors, has been
put forward as the natural person representative of Abengoa, in its capacity as the Chair of the Board of the Focus-Abengoa
Foundation, as well as in any other foundations and institutions in which the company is or has to be represented.
Within this section, you may include any other information, clarification or detail related to the above sections of the
report, to the extent that they are relevant and not reiterative.
Specifically, indicate whether the company is subject to non-Spanish legislation with regard to corporate governance
and, if so, include the information it is obliged to provide and which is different from that required in this report.
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Binding definition of independent director:
Indicate whether any of the independent directors have or have had any relation with the company, its significant
shareholders or its executives which, had it been sufficiently significant or important, would have meant that the
director could not be considered independent in accordance with the definition given in section 5 of the Unified Good
Governance Code:
No
Date and signature:
This annual corporate governance report was approved by the Board of Directors of the company at its meeting held
on
23/02/2009
Indicate whether there were any directors who voted against or abstained in relation to the approval of this report.
No
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