Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee shall comprise five members. The 2009 Annual General Meeting resolved that the Chairman of the Board shall be given a mandate to contact the company´s four largest shareholders and ask them each to appoint one representative to make up the Nominating Committee, together with the Chairman of the Board, for the period until a new Nominating Committee has been appointed in accordance with a mandate from the next Annual General Meeting.
In addition to Conny Karlsson (Chairman of the Board), Andy Brown (Cedar Rock Capital), KG Lindvall (Swedbank Robur Funds), Mads Eg Gensmann (Parvus Asset Management) and William Lock (Morgan Stanley Investment Management) have been appointed members of the Nominating Committee before the Annual General Meeting 2010.
According to the instructions adopted by the Annual General Meeting, the Nominating Committee shall prepare and submit proposals to the Annual General Meeting regarding the election of the Chairman and other Members of the Board, the determination of Directors fees to be divided between the Chairman and other Members of the Board and any remuneration for committee work, the election of and payment of fees to auditors, when applicable, and the election of a Chairman of the Annual General Meeting.
The Nominating Committee meets as often as necessary in order for it to be able to fulfil its obligations, although at least once a year.
Shareholders who wish to submit its opinion, or put forward a proposal, to the Company´s Nominating Committee may do so to:
Nominating Committee
c/o Fredrik Peyron
Swedish Match AB
SE-118 85 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: 
Proposals should be submitted by March 1, 2010 at the latest, so that the Nominating Committee can consider proposals received with due care.