Insider management
Suominen complies with the EU Market Abuse Regulation (“MAR”), the Finnish Securities Markets Act, the decisions, regulations, guidelines and standards issued by the Finnish Ministry of Finance and the Financial Supervisory Authority, the rules of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd as well as the Guidelines for Insiders issued by Helsinki Exchange in force at any given time. In addition, the Board of Directors of the Company has approved an Insider Policy to inform the governing bodies and employees of Suominen and its affiliated companies of the regulations in force pertaining to insider trading.
Directors required to submit notifications
Based on the MAR, Suominen no longer maintains a public insider register. Instead, Suominen maintains a list of the Company’s directors and persons closely associated with them. Persons on that list have an obligation to notify Suominen and the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority of all transactions made with Suominen’s financial instruments by them or on behalf of them. Suominen will disclose the notifications it has received as stock exchange releases as soon as possible.
At Suominen Corporation, the members of the Board of Directors, the President & CEO and other members of the Executive Team have been defined as subject to the requirement to report their transactions.
Disclosed stock exchange releases on the transaction notifications of directors and persons closely associated with them can be found in the Newsroom.
Closed period
Suominen’s defined directors are subject to comply with the so-called closed period. The closed period begins 30 calendar days before the publication of an interim report, half-year report or financial statements release and ends at the end of the day of publication of such a report or release. During the closed period, Suominen’s defined directors may not trade with the share or another financial instrument of the Company. Core persons preparing financial reports, among others, are also subject to a similar 30-day closed period. The times of the closed periods are disclosed in the IR calendar.
During a closed period, trading with Suominen’s financial instruments by defined directors and core persons is possible only in certain very exceptional situations. An example of such an exceptional situation is a transaction conducted by a director or core person to participate in a share-saving scheme for Suominen employees which is a prerequisite of a director’s or a core person’s position. Any exceptions to the closed period requires the Company’s approval of the transaction in question. The exception cannot be applied if a director or a core person has inside information.
Trading by directors and core persons
Directors and core persons must, in addition to abiding by the closed period and other trade restrictions, time their trading so that it does not weaken the general trust in the securities market. Suominen recommends that directors and core persons make long-term investments in the Company’s shares and other financial instruments.
Further, it is also recommendable to time the trading to a point in time when the market has as complete knowledge of the factors affecting the value of the share or the financial instrument as possible.
Monitoring and control
The Insider Officer of Suominen is the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. The Insider Officer is generally responsible for the administration of the Company’s insider matters.
Without limiting the obligations arising from MAR, the Securities Markets Act or other applicable regulations, the Company’s insider administration assumes responsibility for internal communications concerning insider issues, training in insider issues within the Company, preparing and maintaining lists of directors and their closely associated persons, receiving notifications concerning the transactions of directors and their closely associated persons, going through the notifications and forwarding them to the Financial Supervisory Authority (if the director/closely associated person has authorized the Company to do so) and publishing the related stock exchange release, preparing and maintaining project-specific insider lists, preparing lists of personnel who are defined as core persons, monitoring insider issues, and administering the information to be published on the internet, if needed.
Updated on March 10, 2023