UNITED STATES
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JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC
JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC
ONE ALBERT QUAY
CORK, IRELAND

Meeting Information
Meeting Type: Annual General Meeting
For holders as of: January 3, 2018
Date: March 7, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM, Local Time
Location: The Merrion Hotel
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| | The Board of Directors recommends you vote FORproposals one through eight: | | |
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| | 1. | | By separate resolutions, to elect the following individuals as Directors for a period of one year, expiring at the end of the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2019: | | |
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| | | | 1a. | | Michael E. Daniels | | |
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| | | | 1b. | | W. Roy Dunbar | | |
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| | | | 1c. | | Brian Duperreault | | |
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| | | | 1d. | | Gretchen R. Haggerty | | |
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| | | | 1e. | | Simone Menne | | |
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| | | | 1f. | | George R. Oliver | | |
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| | | | 1g. | | Juan Pablo del Valle Perochena | | |
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| | | | 1h. | | Jürgen Tinggren | | |
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| | | | 1i. | | Mark Vergnano | | |
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| | | | 1j. | | R. David Yost | | |
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| | | | 1k. | | John D. Young | | |
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| 2.a | | To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent auditors of the Company. | | |
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| 2.b | | To authorize the Audit Committee of the Board of | | |
| | | Directors to set the auditors’ remuneration. | | |
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| | 3. | | To authorize the Company and/or any subsidiary of the Company to make market purchases of Company shares. |
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| | 4. | | To determine the price range at which the Company can re-allot shares that it holds as treasury shares (Special Resolution). |
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| | 5. | | To approve, in a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of the named executive officers. |
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| | 6. | | To approve the Directors' authority to allot shares up to approximately 33% of issued share capital. |
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| | 7. | | To approve the waiver of statutory pre-emption rights with respect to up to 5% of issued share capital (Special Resolution). |
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| | 8.a | | To approve the reduction of Company capital (Special Resolution). |
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| | 8.b | | To approve a clarifying amendment to the Company's Articles of Association to facilitate the capital reduction (Special Resolution). |