The Annual General Meeting of Patria Oyj

The Annual General Meeting of Patria Oyj was held on 8 April 2009.

At the Annual General Meeting Risto Virrankoski, B.Sc. (Econ.), was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, Anneli Tuominen, former Chief Financial Officer, Paloheimo Companies was elected Vice Chairman and as members of the Board of Directors were elected Hervé Guillou, Chief Executive Officer, EADS Defence and Communications Systems, Ilkka Hollo, Lieutenant General (r.), Arto Honkaniemi, Senior Financial Counsellor, Prime Minister’s Office, Ownership Steering Department (new) and Jussi Itävuori, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Member of the EADS Executive Committee, EADS.

Furthermore, at the Annual General Meeting Mikaela Nylander, M.P., was elected Chairman of the Consultative Committee, Reijo Laitinen, M.P., was elected Vice Chairman and as members were elected Juha Hakola, M.P., Jussi Karimäki, Equipment Assembler, Patria, Markku Koli, Lieutenant General, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Markku Korpela, Work Planner, Patria, Tuija Nurmi, M.P., Eero Reijonen, M.P., Kari Ruokolahti, Composite Fitter, Patria, Ari Viiala, Real Estate Manager, Patria and Eeva-Liisa Virkkunen, Industrial Counsellor, Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Karimäki, Koli, Korpela, Ruokolahti and Viiala are new members.

The Annual General Meeting adopted the Financial Statements and the Consolidated Financial Statements for the financial period 1 January to 31 December 2008. It was also decided to discharge the members of the Board of Directors and the President from liability for the financial period 1 January to 31 December 2008.
 
Furthermore, the Annual General Meeting decided according to the Board of Directors’ proposal not to pay any dividend from the distributable funds at the disposal of the Annual General Meeting, but to place the distributable funds in the retained earnings.

Ernst & Young Oy, Authorised Public Accountants, will continue as Auditors. Mr Harri Pärssinen, APA, will be the partner in charge of the audit.

Patria is a defence and aerospace group with international operations delivering its customers competitive solutions based on own specialist know-how and partnerships. Patria is owned by the State of Finland and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V.

Further information:

Mr Heikki Allonen, President and CEO  
Phone: +358 20 469 2002

Mr Olli Happonen, Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Mobile: +358 40 869 2006