02.05.2017, 15981 Zeichen





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Flughafen Wien Aktiengesellschaft Schwechat, FN 42984 m ISIN AT00000VIE62

Invitation to the Annual General Meeting
We hereby invite our shareholders to the 29th Annual General Meeting of Flughafen Wien Aktiengesellschaft which will be held on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 10 a.m. in Office Park 3, (Object 682), Towerstrasse, A-1300 Wien-Flughafen (entrance next to the NH Hotel).
I. AGENDA
1. Presentation of the annual financial statements and management report, the corporate governance report, the consolidated financial statements, the Group management report, the resolution on the appropriation of the net profit and the report of the Supervisory Board on the 2016 financial year 2. Resolution on the appropriation of the net profit 3. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Management Board for the 2016 financial year 4. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Supervisory Board for the 2016 financial year 5. Election of the auditor for the annual financial statements and consolidated financial statements for the 2017 financial year 6. Elections to the Supervisory Board 7. Resolution on an amendment to the Articles of Association in Section 12 Para.2 8. Resolution on the renewed authorisation to be granted to the Management Board to buy back the Company's own shares (treasury shares) and to dispose of these shares whilst revoking the corresponding resolution on agenda item 9 passed by the Annual General Meeting held on May 31, 2016 granting such authorisation to the Management Board

II. DOCUMENTS FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING; AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY WEBSITE In particular, the following documents will be available on the Website of the Company at www.viennaairport.com no later than May 10, 2017:
o Annual financial statements and management report,
o Corporate governance report, o Consolidated financial statements and group management report, o Proposal for the appropriation of the net profit, o Report of the Supervisory Board,

all with respect to the 2016 financial year;
o Proposals for resolutions on items 2-8 of the agenda, o Declarations of the candidates to be elected to the Supervisory Board under item 6 of the agenda pursuant to Section 87 Para. 2 Austrian Stock Corporation Act (AktG), and the corresponding curriculum vitae,
o Proxy authorization form, o Form for granting a proxy to an IVA representative, o Revocation of proxy form, o Complete text of this invitation to the Annual General Meeting.

III. RECORD DATE AND PREREQUISITES FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Eligibility to participate in the Annual General Meeting and to exercise voting rights and other shareholder rights that apply to the Annual General Meeting are based on the shareholding at the end of day on May 21, 2017 (record date to provide proof of share-holding).
A person is only eligible to participate in the Annual General Meeting, if he/ she is a shareholder on this record date and is able to supply sufficient proof of this status to the Company.
Proof of the shareholding must be provided by a depository confirmation as stipulated in Section 10a AktG. This confirmation must be sent to the Company in written form no later than May 26, 2017 (12 a.m. midnight) exclusively via one of the following communication channels and addresses:
By mail or messenger:
Flughafen Wien Aktiengesellschaft c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH Köppel 60 A-8242 St. Lorenzen am Wechsel

By e-mail or electronic document in the form of a PDF with a qualified electronic signature: anmeldung.flughafenwien@hauptversammlung.at
By SWIFT: GIBAATWGGMS (message type MT598 or MT599; the text must include ISIN AT00000VIE62)
Gladly by fax in advance: +43 (0)1 8900 500 - 88
Shareholders are requested to contact their depositary bank and arrange for the issuance and transmission of a deposit confirmation.
The record date has no effect on the saleability of the shares and has no bearing on dividend rights.
Depositary confirmation pursuant to Section 10a AktG
The depository confirmation must be issued by a depository institution which maintains its registered offices in a member state of the European Economic Area or in a full member state of the OECD, and must include the following information:
o Information on the issuer: name/company and address or a code commonly used in businesstransactions between financial institutions (BIC), o Information on the shareholder: name/company, address, date of birth for natural persons, and if applicable,register and registration number for legal persons in the legal person's country of origin, o Information on the shares: number of shares held by the shareholder, ISIN AT00000VIE62, o Depository number or other designation, o Period covered by the depository confirmation.
The depository confirmation to verify the shareholding as the basis for participation in the Annual General Meeting must relate to the above-mentioned record date for the proof of shareholding, i.e. May 21, 2017 (12 a.m. midnight, CEST, local Vienna time). Depository confirmations may be submitted in German or English.
Proof of identity
For identification purposes, shareholders and their proxies are asked to be ready to show official photo identification when registering for the Annual General Meeting.
IV. POSSIBILITY TO APPOINT A PROXY AND THE PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED
Every shareholder who is entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting and has provided sufficient proof to the Company as described in point III of this invitation is also entitled to appoint a representative, who will participate in the Annual General Meeting on behalf of the shareholder and who is vested with the same rights as the shareholder who he or she represents.
The proxy must designate a specific person (natural or legal) in text form (Section 13 Para. 2 AktG). It is also possible to appoint several proxy holders.
The proxy can be appointed before or even during the Annual General Meeting.
We offer the following communication channels and addresses as means to convey the appointment of a proxy holder:
By mail or messenger:
Flughafen Wien Aktiengesellschaft c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH Köppel 60 A-8242 St. Lorenzen am Wechsel

By fax: +43 (1) 8900 500 - 88
By e-mail: anmeldung.flughafenwien@hauptversammlung.at, (whereby the written proxy authorization may be attached to the e-mail as a PDF file).
The appointment of a proxy holder must be received by the Company no later than May 30, 2017 at 4:00 p.m., exclusively at one of the previously listed addresses, unless they are submitted at the entry or exits check at the Annual General Meeting.
A form for the appointment (or revocation) of a proxy holder can be downloaded from the Company's Website at www.viennaairport.com. In order to ensure problem- free processing, we request that you only use the forms which have been made available. Details on appointing a proxy, especially the text form and contents of the proxy, are derived from the proxy authorization form made available to shareholders.
If the shareholder has appointed the depositary bank (Section 10a AktG) as her or his proxy, it will suffice if the shareholder submits a declaration, via the communication channels stipulated for this purpose, stating that the depositary bank was appointed to serve as the proxy.
Even after appointing a proxy, shareholders may still personally attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their shareholder rights. Personal attendance is considered to serve as a revocation of the proxy authorisation. The aforementioned instructions concerning the granting of proxy authorisation also apply analogously to the revocation of proxy.
Independent voting representative
As a special service, a representative of the Austrian Shareholder Association IVA (Interessenverband für Anleger) Feldmühlgasse 22, 1130 Vienna, will be available as an independent representative to exercise voting rights on behalf of shareholders at the Annual General Meeting and to comply with instructions from the shareholder in exercising these rights. A special form for the designation of IVA as a shareholder representative is available on the Company's Website at www.viennaairport.com. In addition, Mr. Wilhelm Rasinger from IVA may be directly contacted by the shareholder
at +43 1 8763343/42,
per fax at +43 1 8763343/49
or via
e-mail at wilhelm.rasinger@iva.or.at.
V. INFORMATION ON THE RIGHTS OF SHAREHOLDERS AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS 109, 110, 118 AND 119 AUSTRIAN STOCK CORPORATION ACT (AKTG)
1. Additions to the agenda pursuant to Section 109 AktG Shareholders whose total shareholding equals 5% or more of the Company's share capital and who have held these shares for at least three months prior to the filing of their proposal can request in writing that additional items be put on the agenda of this Annual General Meeting, if this request is submitted to the Company in writing no later than May 10, 2017 (12 a.m. midnight) at the address Mr. Wolfgang Köberl, General Secretariat, A-1300 Wien-Flughafen. Each item submitted for the agenda in this manner must include a proposed resolution together with a statement explaining the reasons for such a proposal. Proof of the status as a shareholder must be provided by depository confirmation as stipulated in Section 10a AktG. This confirmation must verify that the shareholder(s) filing the motion has (have) held these shares for at least three months prior to the proposal and may not be older than seven days when it is submitted to the Company. Further requirements for depository confirmation are listed under the section on the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting (point III).
2. Draft resolutions on agenda items submitted by shareholders pursuant to Section 110 AktG Shareholders whose total shareholding equals 1% or more of the Company's share capital may submit written proposals for resolutions including a statement explaining the reasons for any item on the agenda of this Annual General Meeting and require that these proposals, together with the statement explaining the reasons and any statement by the Management Board or Supervisory Board, be published on the Website of the Company as entered into the Commercial Register, if this request is submitted to the Company in writing no later than May 19, 2017 (12 a.m. midnight) either by fax at +43(0)1-7007/23622 or per mail to the address Mr. Wolfgang Köberl, General Secretariat, A-1300 Wien-Flughafen, or per e-mail at fwag-hauptversammlung@viennaairport.com, whereby the written request must be attached to the e-mail, e.g. as a PDF file. In the case of a proposal for the election of a Supervisory Board member, the declaration of the proposed candidate pursuant to Section 87 Para. 2 AktG is to be included instead of the statement explaining the reasons.

Proof of the status as a shareholder must be provided by depository confirmation as stipulated in Section 10a AktG provided that this confirmation is not more than seven days old when it is submitted to the Company. Further requirements for depository confirmation are listed under the section on the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting (point III).
3. The right of shareholders to obtain information pursuant to Section 118 AktG On request, every shareholder must be provided with information concerning the business matters of the Company at the Annual General Meeting, if this information is necessary to enable the shareholder to properly evaluate any item on the agenda. This obligation to provide information also covers the Company's legal relations with an associated company as well as the status of the Group and companies included in the consolidated financial statements.

This request for information may be refused if by the Company, according to sound business judgment, it could result in significant damage to the Company or a subsidiary, or if the provision of this information would comprise a criminal offense punishable under law.
In accordance with Section 14 of the Articles of Association, the chairperson of the Annual General Meeting may set appropriate limits for the time allotted to speakers and the time allotted for questions. He or she may set general and individual limitations, especially at the beginning of but also during the Annual General Meeting, for speaking time and time for posing questions.
Generally, the request for information on the part of shareholders at the Annual General Meeting is to be submitted orally, but may also be submitted in written form.
Any questions whose responses require lengthy preparation should, in the interest of holding an efficient meeting, be submitted in written form to the Management Board in due time prior to the Annual General Meeting. Questions may be submitted by fax to +43 (0) 7007-23622 or via e-mail to fwag- hauptversammlung@viennaairport.com.
4. Proposing motions at the Annual General Meeting pursuant to Section 199 AktG Every shareholder, regardless of the extent of shareholding, is entitled to bring forward motions in respect to each item on the agenda at the Annual General Meeting. This right to bring forward a motion is contingent upon proof of the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting as stipulated in the invitation.

If several motions have been proposed for one item on the agenda, the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting determines the order of voting pursuant to Section 119 Para. 2 AktG.
However, a shareholder proposal pertaining to the election of a Supervisory Board member requires the timely transmission of a proposed resolution pursuant to Section 110 AktG. Persons may only be proposed as candidates for election to the Supervisory Board (item 6 of the agenda) by shareholders whose total shareholding equals 1% of more of the Company's share capital. Such election nominations must be received by the Company no later than May 19, 2017 in the aforementioned manner (point V Para. 2). Every nomination for election to the Supervisory Board must be accompanied by a statement of the proposed person pursuant to Section 87 Para. 2 AktG with respect to his or her professional qualifications, professional or comparable positions and all the circumstances that may give rise to concerns of partiality. Otherwise, the shareholder proposal for the election of a Supervisory Board member will not be taken into consideration at voting time.
5. Information on the Website Additional information on shareholder rights as stipulated in Sections 109, 110, 118 and 119 AktG is available on the Company's Website at www.viennaairport.com.

VI. FURTHER DICSLOSURES AND INFORMATION
Total number of shares and voting rights
The share capital of the company totalled EUR 152,670,000 at the time this invitation to the Annual General Meeting was issued. The share capital was divided into 84,000,000 non-par value bearer shares. Each share carries one voting right. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights amounted to 84,000,000 voting rights at the time the invitation to the Annual General Meeting was issued. The company held no treasury shares, either directly or indirectly, at the time the invitation to the Annual General Meeting was issued.
The Management Board
Schwechat, April 2017


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issuer: Flughafen Wien AG Postfach 1 A-1300 Wien-Flughafen phone: +43 1 7007 - 22826 FAX: +43 1 7007 - 23806

mail: investor-relations@viennaairport.com WWW: http://viennaairport.com/unternehmen/investor_relations
sector: Transport ISIN: AT00000VIE62 indexes: ATX Prime stockmarkets: official market: Wien language: English

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