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The paper aims to determine the legal conditions for the use of remote access information and communication technologies in decision-making at general meetings of shareholders of corporations, ensuring the implementation of the rights of the participants of the corporation and impeccable will element of decisions. The methodological apparatus of the research includes methods of classification, expert evaluation, comparative analysis, formal–legal method, and the analysis of scientific publications and court and arbitration practice. The authors formulated conclusions on the legal conditions for the application of information and communication technologies of remote access in the decision-making at general meetings. The paper determined legal meaning of regulatory requirements for information and communication technologies of remote access as procedural requirements, the implementation of which ensures the implementation of the right to manage and impeccable will element of decisions by the participants of the corporation. The consequences of violations of the regulatory requirements for information and communication technologies of remote access for the validity of the decision made at the general meeting of members of the corporation were determined. Moreover, the authors substantiated the admissibility of application of identification/authentication of persons during remote general meetings based on the use of human biometric data and AI technologies. The research novelty lies in the approach to the legal conditions of application of information and communication technologies as procedural elements of the legal forms of decision-making at general meetings of shareholders of corporations, ensuring the implementation of the right to management and impeccable will element of the decision by the participants of the corporation. The proposed conclusions are of practical value for optimizing the rule-making and law enforcement activities in the field of corporate governance in the context of digital transformation.
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The research was prepared as part of the state research task 5.4. “Current legal model of decentralized regulation of corporate relations in a digitalized economy.” (2022)
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Vanin, V.V., Mogilevsky, S.D., Leskova, Y.G., Shmaliy, O.V., Dushakova, L.A. (2023). Legal Problems in the Application of Distance Technology at General Meetings of Members of Corporations. In: Makarenko, E.N., Vovchenko, N.G., Tishchenko, E.N. (eds) Technological Trends in the AI Economy. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 625. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7411-3_16
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