Chilean National Copper Corporation
Headquarters
Orphans 1270
Box 150-D
Santiago, Chile
CODELCO
PE-048/2023
Santiago, May 02, 2023
Mrs. Solange Berstein Jáuregui
President
Financial Market Commission
Av. Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 1449
Present
Ref.: ESSENTIAL FACT. Codelco Chile,
Registration of Securities Registry No. 785.
From our consideration:
In accordance with the provisions of Article 9, the second paragraph of Article 10 of Law No. 18,045 and General Standard No. 30 of the Financial Market Commission, I comply in informing you as an essential fact, that at Codelco’s Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, held on May 2, 2023, with the assistance of the Minister of Finance (s) and the Minister of Mining, as delegates of H.E. the President of the Republic, the following agreements were made:
1.- The Annual Report, Balance Sheet and other financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022, and the report of the external auditors referring to that year were approved.
2.- PwC Chile was appointed as Codelco’s External Auditor for 2023.
3.- Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, FitchRatings and FellerRate were designated as Codelco’s risk rating agencies for 2023.
4.- El Mercurio was designated as the newspaper for the publications that correspond to Codelco by printed media, in accordance with the provisions of the law of corporations and instructions of the CMF.
5.- An account was rendered of the operations that the Corporation has carried out with related entities or persons, in accordance with the provisions of Article 44 of Law No. 18,046 on Corporations.
6.- The activities of the Directors’ Committee were reported, as well as the expenses incurred by the Board of Directors and the Directors’ Committee during 2022.
7.- The progress of the Company was reported and analyzed in general.
Yours faithfully
Christopher F. Eyzaguirre
Executive Chairman
CODELCO
Link to file in CMFChile: https://www.cmfchile.cl/sitio/aplic/serdoc/ver_sgd.php?s567=3d9e8b20a3c96b9cd370c967e5d6b3deVFdwQmVVMTZRVEZOUkVVMFQwUlJNRTlCUFQwPQ==&secuencia=-1&t=1683072841