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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-36/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-36/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2007/36",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2007/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the exercise of certain rights of shareholders in listed companies",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-36",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Voting by correspondence",
  "text": "Member States shall permit companies to offer their shareholders the possibility to vote by correspondence in advance of the general meeting. Voting by correspondence may be made subject only to such requirements and constraints as are necessary to ensure the identification of shareholders and only to the extent that they are proportionate to achieving that objective.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2007/36/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:27.164053+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}