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ETAG
Eurotunnel Foundation Sharholders' Action Group

This is only relevant to members of
TNU PLC & TNU SA, formerly Eurotunnel
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Eurotunnel Foundation Shareholders' travel rights
     
Latest Postings
Posted 25th Sepember 2008 Tunnel fire consequences
TNU AGMs 27th June 2008 - ETAG report Posted 27th June 2008 Travel rights - Annual fee planned
TNU AGMs 27th June 2008 Agenda commentary Posted 23rd June 2008 No action required
ETAG Annual Accounts to 31st March 2008 Posted 8th May 2008 Adequate resources in hand
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Etag recption 2007
Informal ETAG reception at The Grand Folkestone 14th July 2007

Having successfully dealt with their assorted bondholders as part of its reorganisation, Eurotunnel at the last moment attempted to abolish the Foundation Shareholders' travel rights, even though they were contractual obligations granted to secure a critical portion of its original equity finance. ETAG was founded to oppose this iniquity, as a result of which those shareholders who retained the necessary qualifying 'stapled Units' in the former Eurotunnel PLC & Eurotunnel SA (now TNU PLC & TNU SA) continue to benefit from their travel rights.

However, their qualifying shares are now a tiny minority in a subsidiary of the new holding company, Groupe Eurotunnel SA (GET SA), and ETAG continues to monitor its members' interests. It maintains a Defence Fund in readiness for any eventuality; a substantial proportion of those who use the travel rights have subscribed to this fund, and the weight of numbers and resources, supplemented by insurance cover, has amply demonstrated its worth hitherto.

Email: ETAG@grand-uk.com

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The Eurotunnel Foundation Shareholders’ Action Group (ETAG)
is directed by a Steering Committee consisting of:

Michael Stainer FCA – Member of Eurotunnel Shareholder Consultative Committee
Paul Fox FCA – Member of Eurotunnel Shareholder Consultative Committee
Michael Spencer QC – Crown Office Chambers, expert in Group litigation
John Webley  FCA – a former Morgan Stanley Managing Director

     

For those who are yet to join:

The requested Defence Fund contribution is

Offer Year
All these categories have travel rights to the end of the concession in 2086
1st  payment
2nd payment
1987
1500 + units with unlimited 'free' return journeys
£150
£150
1987
1000-1499 units with two 'free' return journeys per annum
£40
£40
1990
1500 + units with unlimited return journeys @50% discount
£75
£75
1990
700-1499 units with one return journey per annum @50% discount
£25
£25
 

Over 1200 Unitholders have joined ETAG, their first payments having produced over £130,000, of which nearly £75,000 remains in the kitty.
Members' available insurance cover amounts to a sum well into seven figures.

If you wish to be a party to ETAG's continuing action to safeguard the Foundation Shareholders' travel rights you should register with us and send your first payment to the Defence Fund; the second payment is not required at the moment, and will only be requested, should it be necessary, to ward off any further attacks on our rights.

Please click here for ETAG's Defence Fund Contribution Form to download, and return it with your cheque or credit card details,
and also please confirm your are joining ETAG by Email with the subject - Confirmation of Defence Fund Contribution
.
For ETAG email updates please sign up here.

Please notify us, and Eurotunnel, of any change in your contact details - click here for details of what to do.

If and when we are satisfied that there is no further danger to our travel rights, any balance of funds will be returned, pro rata, to contributions.

Our email address is  ETAG@grand-uk.com  - it would be appreciated if you would email rather than phone, or write to:

ETAG   The Grand   The Leas   Folkestone  CT20 2XL

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Progress Reports
Special Bulletins
Other
TNU AGMs 27th June 2008 - ETAG report
Travel rights - Annual fee planned

Temporary Suspension of Travel Rights & their Renewa
Tunnel fire consequences
(Posted 29th Sepember 2008)

ETAG Annual Accounts to 31st March 2008

EGMs 21st Dec 2007 Agenda commentary (posted 20th Nov 2007)

Progress Report 12th Oct 2007
Renewal of travel rights from 1st Nov 2007

Insurance Details 15th May 2007
requested from those ETAG members whose household insurance policies cover contractual disputes

Questionnaire Results 10th May 2007
Evidence that Foundation Shareholders were being misled by Offer documents & information centres
Progress Report 30th June 2007
Confirmation that travel rights continue
A Thank You note 10th June 2007
Your ETAG team and their supporters
Eurotunnel Press Release 31st May 2007
Analysis of initial Offer result
Additional Acceptance Period 1st to 14th June 2007
Offer result 25th May 2007
87% acceptances - sit tight!
The Takeover Panel ruling 23rd May 2007
Reasons for dismissing ETAG’s ‘separate class of shares’ case (40 pages)
Other aspects of ETAG's approaches to The Takeover Panel, its French Equivalent the AMF, the Paris Commercial Court and its proposed Injunction have not resulted in rulings as either Eurotunnel has taken appropriate action to satisfy our complaints or matters are ongoing.

Linklaters’ review
ETAG's action has become a leading case, and Linklaters' review is a very much more digestible summary
 
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Press Coverage
April
May
June
BBC Blogs - to date
Times Online 1st June 2007
Share price commentary
 
November
BBC 2  Working Lunch c12.55 15th May 2007
(5 mins)
The Goun on Show
ou Le OuiOuiOuiNon Spectacle

Near the end he’s tamely asked about travel rights – he implies for about 150 out of 150,000 UK shareholders
‘which the company can’t afford’.
(Fortunately it’s what his lawyers make him write that counts.)
 
 

Sunday Telegraph 15th April 2007

Reuters (Paris) 16th May 2007
Round up & History
 
 

 

Thomson Financial (London) 18th May 2007
The continuation of existing travel rights is not affected – see Daily Mail 19th May below

 
 

The Sunday Telegraph 20th May 2007
The vultures are hovering

 

Thomson Financial (Paris) 21st May 2007
Confirms continuation of
Foundation Shareholders' travel rights

 
   
     
Daily Telegraph 30.3.07
Daily Telegraph 30.3.2007
Daily Mail 31.3.2007
     
     
     
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