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20-12-01 Pressrelease

Rules on Remuneration of the Board and Executive Management and on Incentive Programmes

On 1 December 2020 The Swedish Corporate Governance Board has published its Rules on Remuneration of the Board and Executive Management and on Incentive Programmes (“the Remuneration Rules”). The Remuneration Rules replace the previous self-regulation rules on remuneration to senior executives and on share and share price-related incentive programmes. The rules also contain certain provisions that supplement the rules in the Swedish Companies Act on remuneration guidelines and remuneration reports.

In the new Remuneration Rules, the Swedish Corporate Governance Board, which is to promote good practice in the Swedish securities market, has assembled the rulings of the Swedish Securities Council and the Swedish Corporate Governance Code’s rules on remuneration into a comprehensive regulatory framework that stipulates what is good practice in the Swedish securities market with regard to remuneration to a company's senior executives and with regard to shares and share price related incentive programmes.

Through this work, the existing rules on remuneration, remuneration principles and remuneration reports contained in the Swedish Corporate Governance Code (“the Code”), have been moved to the Remuneration Rules, with some changes. This means that the Code's rules on these matters will no longer apply. A table has been drawn up to show the moves and the changes. With regard to incentive programmes, the Remuneration Rules entail a codification of current generally accepted practice. Any changes to these rules will take place in a future revision of the Remuneration Rules.

The new rules come into force on 1 January 2021.

 Press release Remuneration rules (2020-12-01)

 Remuneration rules

 Table of comparison

 Code Instruction 2020:1

The responsibility for the Rules on Remuneration of the Board and Executive Management and on Incentive Programmes as well as the Recommendation on private placements was taken over by the Swedish Securities Market Self-Regulation Committee, (Sw. Aktiemarknadens Självregleringskommitté, ASK), on 1 July 2021. The rules are available at the Committee’s website, regelkommitten.se