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Fortum Corporation's Board of Directors' proposal to the Annual General Meeting to establish a Shareholders’ Nomination Board

Espoo, Finland, 2013-01-31 08:15 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FORTUM CORPORATION
STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 31 January 2013 at 9.15 EET 

The Board of Directors of Fortum Corporation proposes to the Annual General
Meeting to be held on 9 April 2013 that the General Meeting would resolve to
establish a permanent Shareholders' Nomination Board as follows: 

1 PURPOSE AND TASKS OF THE NOMINATION BOARD

The purpose and task of the Nomination Board is to prepare and present to the
Annual General Meeting, and, if necessary, to an Extraordinary General Meeting,
a proposal on the remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors, a
proposal on the number of the members of the Board of Directors and a proposal
on the members of the Board of Directors. In addition, the task of the
Nomination Board is to seek candidates as potential board members. 

The Nomination Board acts in accordance with applicable laws, the stock
exchange regulations applicable to the Company and the Finnish Corporate
Governance Code. As a board representing the Company's shareholders, the
Nomination Board meets the requirements set out for such a board by the
Corporate Governance Code and does not represent an exception to the Code. 

2 COMPOSITION OF THE NOMINATION BOARD

The Nomination Board shall consist of four (4) members, three of which shall be
appointed by the Company's three largest shareholders, who shall appoint one
member each. The Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors shall serve as
the fourth member. 

The Company's largest shareholders entitled to appoint members to the
Nomination Board shall be determined on the basis of the registered holdings in
the Company's shareholder register held by Euroclear Finland Oy as of the first
working day in September in the year concerned. The Chairman of the Board of
Directors shall request each of the three largest shareholders to appoint one
member to the Nomination Board. In the event that a shareholder presents a
written request to the Chairman of the Board of Directors by 30 August of the
year preceding the Annual General Meeting, into the holdings of the shareholder
shall be calculated also holdings of a person equivalent to the shareholder
that need to be taken into account when evaluating the requirement to flag
changes in the holdings under the Securities Markets Act. In the event that a
shareholder does not wish to exercise his or her right to appoint a
representative, it shall pass to the next-largest shareholder who would not
otherwise be entitled to appoint a member to the Nomination Board. 

The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall convene the first meeting of the
Nomination Board. The Nomination Board shall elect a Chairman from among its
members and the Nomination Board's Chairman shall be responsible for convening
subsequent meetings. When the Nomination Board has been appointed, the Company
will publish the composition by a release. 

The Nomination Board is established to exist and serve until the General
Meeting of the Company decides otherwise. The members shall be nominated
annually and their term of office shall end when new members are nominated to
replace them. 

Shareholders shall be entitled to replace their appointed member in the midst
of his or her term of office by informing it to the Chairman of the Nomination
Board. A member appointed by a shareholder must resign from the Nomination
Board if the shareholder concerned is no longer one of the Company's ten
largest shareholders, unless the other members of the Nomination Board
unanimously decide otherwise. A right to appoint a member to replace the
resigned member shall be offered to the shareholder, who, at the time in
question, is the largest shareholder having not yet appointed a member to the
Nomination Board. 

The members of the Nomination Board appointed by shareholders shall be
independent of the Company and a person belonging to the Company's operative
management cannot be a member of the Nomination Board. 

A review of the activities of the Board shall be presented in the Annual
General Meeting of the Company, after which it will be published on the
Company's website. 

The members of the Nomination Board shall not be entitled to any remuneration
from the Company on the basis of their membership. The travelling costs of the
members shall be reimbursed in accordance with the Company's travel policy. The
Nomination Board can, at the Company's approved expense, make use of outside
experts to identify and evaluate potential new candidate members to the Board
of Directors. 

3 PROPOSALS TO THE GENERAL MEETING

The Nomination Board shall forward its proposals for the Annual General Meeting
to the Company's Board of Directors by 31 January each year. Proposals intended
for an Extraordinary General Meeting shall be forwarded to the Company's Board
of Directors in time for them to be included in the notice to the General
Meeting. 

A person to be proposed as a member of the Board of Directors shall have the
qualifications required for the task and the possibility to devote sufficient
amount of time for the task. 

The Nomination Board shall agree unanimously on the proposals to be made to the
General Meeting. If unanimous decision cannot be reached, the Nomination Board
shall inform the Company's Board of Directors that it is unable to make a
proposal for the General Meeting. 

4 CONFIDENTIALITY

The Nomination Board shall keep the proposals to be made for the General
Meeting confidential until they have been published by the Company. The members
of the Nomination Board shall be responsible to see to that information
concerning the Company shall be kept confidential. In case the Nomination Board
receive any insider information, such information shall be handled in
accordance with the Securities Markets Act. 

In Espoo, 30 January 2013

FORTUM CORPORATION
The Board of Directors

Further information:
Harri Pynnä, General Counsel, Fortum Corporation, tel.  +358 50 45 24825

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