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CHAPTER I
Purpose of the Internal Bylaws
Article 1. This Internal Bylaws (“Internal Bylaws”) regulates the
activities of the Board of Directors, as well as the relationship between the
Board of Directors and the other management bodies, pursuant to the Bylaws
provisions (“Bylaws”) of Ultrapar Participações S.A. (“Ultrapar” or “Company”)
and any shareholders’ agreements eventually filed at the Company’s headquarters.
CHAPTER II
Scope of Work and Objectives
Article 2. The Board
of Directors must establish the general guidance of Ultrapar and its
businesses, aiming at:
a)promoting and observing the business purpose of Ultrapar, with a
long-term vision and discipline in capital allocation, always seeking value creation
for the Company;
b)ensuring the Company’s values, principles and purpose, as well as maintaining
the transparency in the Company’s relationship with all stakeholders;
c)ensuring the interests of shareholders, considering other stakeholders;
d)ensuring the Company’s perpetuity, within a long-term and sustainability
perspective, considering economic, social, environmental and good corporate
governance aspects;
e)the adoption by the Company of an agile management structure with
professionals of excellence and unblemished reputation;
f)periodically developing, approving, and revising corporate governance,
policies and management guidelines of the Company and their respective unfolding
in its subsidiaries;
g)preventing conflicts of interest situations and managing divergence of
opinions, so that the Company's interest always prevails; and
h)ensuring the reliability of financial and strategic information,
assessing the acceptable risk level in business conduct, and evaluating the
effectiveness of the internal control system.
CHAPTER III
Board of Director’s Authority
Article 3. In addition to the responsibilities of the Board of Directors
set forth in the Company’s Bylaws, the Board shall be responsible for defining
the composition of the statutory committees of the Board, as well as their respective
coordinators, in compliance with the legal, the Bylaws and this Internal Bylaws
provisions.
CHAPTER IV
Composition
and Term of Office
Article 4. The Board of Directors shall be composed of the number of
members and term as defined in the Company’s Bylaws.
Paragraph 1. The independent directors must immediately inform the
Chairman of the Board of any circumstances that may compromise their
independence in accordance with the requirements established in the B3 S.A. –
Bolsa, Brasil, Balcão New Market Regulation (“New Market Regulation”),
including so that the Chairman can evaluate the need to replace the director in
order to comply with the minimum percentage/minimum amount of independent directors
set forth in the Company’s Bylaws, which shall comply with the provisions of
the New Market Regulation.
Paragraph 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this
Article, the Directors must keep the Board of Directors duly informed about any
positions they hold on boards of directors
of
the Company’s subsidiaries or in other publicly held companies,
and must report to the body
any changes or new appointments at the first meeting following
their occurrence.
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CHAPTER V
Board of
Directors’ Duties
Article 5. The duties of each Board’s Director, in addition to those set
forth in the Bylaws, applicable
legislation and rules, are:
a)to attend the Board of Directors’ meetings previously prepared,
including the verification of the available documents, on an active and
diligent basis, to ensure depth and quality in the decision-making process;
b)to keep confidentiality to any and all information of the Company to
which they have access due to the exercise of their position, as well as
require the same confidential treatment from professionals who provide them
with advice, using such information only for the exercise of its duties as Director;
c)except with prior and specific approval of the Board, to refrain from
intervening, alone or jointly with a third party, in any business: (1) with the
Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates, or its controlling shareholder (if
any) , and (2) between, on one side, the Company and, on the other side,
subsidiaries or affiliates of the controllers or the controlling shareholder
(if any), or other companies which are members of the same de jure or in fact
group of these subsidiaries or affiliates, controllers or controlling
shareholder (if any);
d)to refrain from accessing information, participating in resolutions and
discussions of the Board of Directors or of any management bodies, vote or, in
any manner, intervene in the matter in which
they are directly or indirectly in conflict
with the Company’s interests, as provided for by law ;
and
e)to ensure that good corporate governance practices are adopted by the
Company.
CHAPTER
VI
Chairman
of the Board of Directors
Article 6. The Chairman of the Board of Directors has the following
responsibilities, without prejudice to others conferred by the Company’s Bylaws
and applicable legislation:
a)to propose to the Board the annual calendar with the dates of ordinary
meetings, which shall not be less than 6 nor more than 12, without prejudice to
extraordinary meetings;
b)to ensure the effectiveness and good performance of the Board of
Directors;
c)to organize and coordinate the agenda of meetings of the body and ensure
that the Directors receive adequate and timely information of the items on the
agenda of the meetings;
d)to organize, together with the Chief Executive Officer, upon the
election of a new member of the Board, an integration program for the new Director;
e)to monitor the Company’s activities, interacting with the managers and
with the business on relevant topics, always acting on behalf of the Board of
Director and ensuring the implementation of the strategic direction approved by
the Board of Directors; and
f)to ensure faithful compliance with this Internal Bylaws.
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CHAPTER
VII
Leadership
of Independent Directors
Article 7. In the event that the Chairman of the Board of Directors is a
non-independent director, the independent members may designate a leader of the
independent directors to support the Chairman of the Board in all matters as a
neutral element, ensuring that the body reflects the vision of the independent
directors.
Article 8. The director appointed as leader of the independents shall:
(a) assist the Chairman of the Board of Directors in formulating the
agendas and calendars of the body’s meetings, based on the collection of
perceptions from other members, shareholders, and other stakeholders; and
(b) act, together with the Chairman and/or other directors, when the
Board of Directors or the Company goes through an atypical stress period due to
relevant issues involving the Board of Directors or its members.
CHAPTER VIII
Board of
Directors’ Functioning Rules
Article 9. The Board of Directors shall meet in accordance with the
rules set forth in the Company’s Bylaws and this Internal Bylaws, whenever
meetings are convened by its Chairman or by any 2 directors.
Paragraph 1. The meetings of the Board of Directors shall be called in
writing, by e-mail or other means that allow proof of receipt of the call
notice by the recipient, and must contain, in addition to the place, date and
time of the meeting, the agenda.
Paragraph 2. The meetings of the Board of Directors shall be called at
least 3 days in advance. Regardless of the formalities observed in calling the
meeting, a meeting shall be deemed to be duly called if attended by all the
members of the Board of Directors.
Paragraph 3. To ensure equality of information among all directors,
documents and information provided to one member must be equally made available
to all other members of the Board of Directors, through the governance portal
adopted by the Company.
Paragraph 4. In case of urgency, the Chairman of the Board of Directors
(or a third party he or she may appoint) may call a meeting of the Board of
Directors with a short notice than that provided in Paragraph 2 of this
article, provided that in this case the meeting will only be installed with the
presence of at least 2/3 of the elected.
Paragraph 5. The directors may attend the meetings of the Board of
Directors by any other means of communication that allows the identification of
the director and simultaneous communication with all other persons present at
the meeting. In this case, directors shall be considered present at the meeting
and must sign the corresponding minutes.
Article 10. The meetings of the Board of Directors shall preferably be
held at the Company’s headquarter and, except as provided in Article 9,
Paragraph 4 above, shall be installed with the presence of the majority of the directors,
one of whom must be the Chairman or Vice-Chairman and the deliberations shall
be taken by majority vote, and the Chairman, or in their absence, the
Vice-Chairman, in addition to their vote, shall issue the tie-breaker.
Sole paragraph. In case of absence or temporary impediment of the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, their duties will be exercised, on a
temporary basis, by the Vice-Chairman or another member of the Board of
Directors nominated by the Chairman.
Article 11. The minutes of the meetings of the Board of Directors must
be summarized and recorded clearly, recording all decisions taken, abstention
of votes, conflicts of interest, dissenting votes (if so requested), and must
be signed by all attendees. Whenever they contain deliberations intended to produce
effects before third parties, their summary shall be filed at the Board of
Trade and published.
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Article 12. Whenever necessary, the Chairman of the Board, on their own
initiative or at the request of any director, may convene directors, officers
or employees of the Company, as well as any persons who may contribute to the
discussion, to attend meetings and provide clarifications or information on the
matters to be discussed.
Article 13. The Board of Directors shall adopt, as a practice, at the
end of all ordinary meetings of the body, the holding of an executive session,
without the presence of Company executives.
Article 14. The Board shall conduct at least once per mandate an
assessment of the Board, its members, and the statutory advisory committees in
accordance with the assessment procedures structured by the Company.
Article 15. Whenever there are Shareholders’ Meeting for election of
managers, the Board shall include, in the respective management proposal, its
opinion including: (i) confirmation regarding the adherence of each candidate for
the position of member of the Board of Directors to the Policy of Nomination
and Assessment of the Company Managers; and (ii) the reasons, considering the
provisions of the New Market Regulation and the declaration of independence
submitted by the applicant, by which the qualification of each applicant as
independent director is verified.
Article 16. The Board of Directors' new integration program must include:
(i) presentation meetings with the members of the Board of Executive Officers;
and (ii) discussion of essential topics to the proper understanding of Ultra's
businesses, including the availability of all documents deemed reasonably
required by the new director.
CHAPTER
IX
Support
Committees of the Board of Directors
Article 17. The Board of Directors shall be assisted by the statutory
advisory committees, and may create additional committees with specific
purposes and must designate their members.
Paragraph 1. The committees referred to in the caput, ex officio or at
request of the Board, shall analyze and discuss the matters within their competence
referred to them, and shall present their recommendations to the Board with the
necessary substantiation.
Paragraph 2. The coordinator of each committee shall provide
clarifications on matters within their competence and report the progress of
the work carried out at each Board meeting.
CHAPTER X
General
Provisions
Article 18. The members of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to a
fixed compensation, with the purpose of remunerating them according to the responsibility
and complexity inherent in the position of director. The participation of the director
in statutory committees shall be compensated according to the Policy of
Corporate Compensation of the Company.
Article 19. Omissions of this Internal Bylaws, doubts interpretation and
possible amendments to its provisions shall be decided at a meeting of the
Board of Directors, as provided in the Bylaws of the Company and in this
Internal Bylaws.
Article 20. This Internal Bylaws is effective on the date of its
approval by the Board of Directors and shall be filed at the Company’s
headquarters, on the CVM website and on the Company’s Investors Relations
website.