OREANDA-NEWS. Today, Bashneft's Board of Directors has decided to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company in Ufa on March 11, 2015, approved its agenda and set the date for compiling a list of eligible participants for December 22, 2014.

The agenda of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will include the following items:

Establishing the procedure for holding the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of JSOC Bashneft;

Early resignation of members of JSOC Bashneft's Board of Directors;

Approval of the number of members of JSOC Bashneft's Board of Directors;

Election to JSOC Bashneft's Board of Directors;

Early resignation of members of JSOC Bashneft's Audit Commission;

Election to JSOC Bashneft's Audit Commission.

In accordance with the Law on Joint-Stock Companies, candidates to be elected to the new Board of Directors should be nominated no later than 30 days before the date of the meeting.