(Ecopetrol S.A., 28.Mar.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A. hereby reports that, at the shareholders’ meeting held on March 26, 2015 , the following amendments to the rules and procedures governing our shareholders’ meetings were approved in order to implement the corporate governance practices recommended by the Superintendence of Finance in the New Code of Corporate Best Practices of Colombia.
The approved amendments are the following:
Voting on amendments to the bylaws: a new paragraph has been adopted providing that, in the event of a proposed amendment to the bylaws, there shall be a separate vote on any specific article being amended whenever such a vote is requested by a shareholder or group of shareholders representing at least 5% of the share capital during a shareholders’ meeting (Article 3, paragraph 1).
Increase of the advance notice time for convening ordinary and extraordinary meetings: the required advance notice for convening ordinary meetings has been increased from twenty (20) business days to thirty (30) calendar days and the required advance notice for convening extraordinary meetings has been increased from eight (8) calendar days to fifteen (15) calendar days (Article 4).
Dispensing with advanced submission of proxies: repeal of Article 7 section 4, which related to the previous proxy review stage.
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