EANS-General Meeting: Palfinger AG / Invitation to the General Meeting

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PALFINGER AG

Salzburg, FN 33393 h
ISIN AT0000758305

INVITATION

We hereby invite our shareholders to the

Annual General Meeting of PALFINGER AG

to be held on Thursday, 8 March 2012, at 11.00 a.m.,
at the PALFINGER Service- und Democenter,
5020 Salzburg, F.-W.-Scherer-Strasse 24.

1. Presentation of the financial statements, including the
management report and the corporate governance report, the
consolidated financial statements, including the consolidated
management report, the Management Board´s proposal with
respect to the distribution of profits and the report of the
Supervisory Board for the 2011 financial year

2. Resolution on the distribution of the net profit for the year

3. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Management
Board from their responsibility for the 2011 financial year

4. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Supervisory
Board from their responsibility for the 2011 financial year

5. Election of the auditor for the financial statements and the
consolidated financial statements for the 2012 financial year

AGM DOCUMENTS

The following documents will be available at the
Company´s website www.palfinger.com no later than 16 February 2012:

financial statements, including management report

corporate governance report

consolidated financial statements, including consolidated management
report

proposal with respect to the distribution of profits

report of the Supervisory Board

each for the 2011 financial year;

proposals for resolution on agenda items 2-5

form for granting a proxy

form for granting a proxy to a representative of IVA

form for revoking a proxy

complete text of this invitation

INFORMATION ON SHAREHOLDERS´ RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECS. 109, 110 AND
118 OF THE COMPANIES ACT

Shareholders who jointly hold at least 5 per cent of the share
capital and who have been the holders of these shares for at least
three months prior to making such request are entitled to request in
writing that additional items be put on the agenda of this AGM and
be published provided that such written request is delivered to
the Company no later than 16 February 2012 exclusively at the
address 5020 Salzburg, F.-W.-Scherer-Strasse 24, Corporate
Communications department, attn. Mr Hannes Roither. Shareholders must
also indicate proposals for resolutions regarding each item on the
agenda so requested, including a statement of grounds. If bearer
shares have been deposited, a certificate of deposit
(Depotbestätigung) pursuant to sec. 10a of the Companies Act
stating that the shareholders making such requests have held their
shares for at least three months prior to making such requests
shall be sufficient to evidence shareholder status; this
certificate shall not be older than seven days at the time of it
being submitted to the Company. As regards the other requirements of
the certificate of deposit, please refer to the information on the
right to attend the Annual General Meeting.

Shareholders holding jointly at least 1 per cent of the share
capital are entitled to submit proposals for resolution on any
item of the agenda, including a statement of grounds, in text form
and demand that such proposals, including the grounds therefor, be
made available on the website of the Company together with a
statement by the Management or Supervisory Board, if
applicable. Such request must be delivered to the Company in text
form no later than 28 February 2012 either by telefax at +43 662 46
84-2280 or at the address 5020 Salzburg, F.-W.-Scherer-Strasse 24,
Corporate Communications department, attn. Mr Hannes Roither, or by
e-mail to h.roither@palfinger.com, in which case such request must
be attached to the e-mail in text form, such as a PDF file. If
bearer shares have been deposited, a certificate of deposit
pursuant to sec. 10a of the Companies Act shall be sufficient
to evidence that the shareholders are entitled to exercise
their shareholders´ rights; this certificate shall not be older
than seven days at the time of it being submitted to the
Company. As regards the other requirements of the certificate of
deposit, please refer to the information on the right to attend the
AGM.

Each shareholder has the right to be informed on any matters
pertaining to the Company if so requested provided that such
information is necessary for a proper opinion regarding a particular
agenda item.

Additional information on such rights of shareholders pursuant to
secs. 109, 110 and 118 of the Companies Act is available as of now at
the Company´s website www.palfinger.com.

QUALIFYING DATE AND RIGHT TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The shareholders´ rights to attend the Annual General Meeting and to
exercise the voting right and the other shareholder rights to be
asserted in the course of the Annual General Meeting are governed by
their shareholdings as of the close of 27 February 2012 (Qualifying
date).

The Annual General Meeting may only be attended by persons who are
shareholders at such Qualifying Date and who provide evidence thereof
to the Company.

In the case of deposited bearer shares a certificate of deposit
pursuant to sec. 10a of the Companies Act shall be sufficient to
evidence a shareholder´s shareholding as of the Qualifying Date,
which shall be delivered to the Company no later than 5 March 2012
exclusively at one of the addresses indicated below.

By post or

courier: PALFINGER AG
Corporate Communications
Attn. Hannes Roither
F.-W.-Scherer-Strasse 24
5020 Salzburg

By telefax: +43 (0)1 8900 500 78

By e-mail: anmeldung.palfinger@hauptversammlung.at, the certificate
of deposit

must be attached to the e-mail in text form such as a PDF file

PALFINGER AG no longer accepts deposit certificates and statements
pursuant to sec. 114 para. 1, sentence four of the Companies
Act transferred via an international, particularly secure
communications network of banks (SWIFT) as other electronic
communication channels (telefax and e-mail) are instead made
available. This is due to the fact that, for the two previous AGMs,
PALFINGER AG offered SWIFT as an electronic form of communication
of which custodian banks did not make use.

Certificates of deposit pursuant to sec. 10a of the Companies Act

The certificate of deposit is to be issued by the relevant custodian
bank with its headquarters in a member state of the European
Economic Area or in a full member state of the OECD and must
include the following information: • information on the issuer:
(corporate) name and address or any code that is customarily used
among credit institutions, • information on the shareholder:
(corporate) name, address, date of birth for natural persons, and
register and register number, if applicable, for legal entities,
• information on the shares: number of the shares held by the
shareholder, ISIN AT0000758305, deposit number and/or other
designation, • date to which the certificate of deposit refers.

The certificate of deposit as evidence of the shareholding must
refer to the above-mentioned Qualifying Date 27 February 2012.

The certificate of deposit may be delivered in German or English.

Shareholders will not be blocked by registering for the AGM
and/or by submitting a certificate of deposit, which is why they may
continue to freely dispose of their shares also after registering
for the AGM and/or submitting a certificate of deposit.

REPRESENTATION BY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES

Shareholders entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting
may appoint representatives who will take part in the meeting on
behalf of such shareholder and have the same rights as the
shareholders whom they represent.

Proxy must be given to a specific person (natural person or legal
entity) in text form; also several persons may be authorized.

Such proxy must be delivered to the Company exclusively at one of the
addresses indicated below:

Corporate Communications

By post: PALFINGER AG
Corporate Communications
Attn. Mr Hannes Roither
F.-W.-Scherer-Strasse 24
5020 Salzburg

By telefax: +43 (0)1 8900 500 78

By e-mail: anmeldung.palfinger@hauptversammlung.at,
the proxy must be attached to the e-mail in text form such as a PDF
file

At the date of the General Meeting exclusively:
In person: when registering for the AGM at the venue

A proxy form and a form for revoking the proxy will be sent to
shareholders

upon request and may be downloaded from the Company´s website at
www.palfinger.com.

If such proxy is not personally delivered at the date of the AGM upon
registration, it must be delivered to the Company no later than 7 March 2012 at
4 p.m.

The rules indicated above regarding the granting of proxy apply mutatis
mutandis to its revocation.

In case shareholders have granted proxy to their custodian bank, it is

sufficient if the latter declares, in addition to delivery of the
certificate of deposit, that it has been given proxy. With regard to
the delivery of such authorization sec. 10a para. 3 of the
Companies Act applies mutatis mutandis.

As a special service a representative of the "Interessenverband
für Anleger" (IVA, Austrian Association of Investors), 1130
Vienna, Feldmühlgasse 22, is available to shareholders as an
independent proxy bound by the shareholders´ instructions for
exercising their voting rights at the Annual General Meeting. A
special proxy form may be downloaded at the Company´s
website at www.palfinger.com/Hauptversammlung. Shareholders may
also contact Michael Knap of the IVA directly by calling +43 1
8763343-0, by fax at +43 1 8763343-49 or by e-mail
michael.knap@iva.or.at.

TOTAL NUMBER OF SHARES AND VOTING RIGHTS

At the date of convening the AGM the share capital of the Company
is divided into 35,730,000 no-par-value shares. Each share grants
one vote. At the date of convening the AGM the Company holds 369,340
own shares that do not confer any rights. The total number of
shares giving their holders the right to attend and vote at the AGM
amounts to 35,360,660 at the date of convening the Meeting.

In order to avoid delays at the entrance checks, shareholders are
asked to present themselves in due time before the start of the
Annual General Meeting. Voting cards may be collected from 10.30
a.m. onwards.

Salzburg, February 2012

The Management Board

Further inquiry note:
Hannes Roither, PALFINGER AG
Unternehmenssprecher
Tel.: +43 662 46 84-2260
mailto: h.roither@palfinger.com
www.palfinger.com

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issuer: Palfinger AG
F.-W.-Schererstraße 24
A-5020 Salzburg
phone: 0662/4684 2261
FAX: 0662/4684 2280
mail: c.rendl@palfinger.com
WWW: www.palfinger.com
sector: Machine Manufacturing
ISIN: AT0000758305
indexes: ATX Prime, Prime Market
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English