The Nomination Committee has prepared a proposal for composition of the Nokia Board of Directors, which it will make to the Annual General Meeting on March 22, 2000. According to the proposal the number of the Board members be eight and the following persons be re-elected until the closing of the following Annual General Meeting: Paul J. Collins, Bengt Holmström, Jouko K. Leskinen, Jorma Ollila, Robert F.W. van Oordt, Vesa Vainio and Iiro Viinanen. Moreover, the Committee proposes that Georg Ehrnrooth be elected as a new member of the Nokia Board for the next one-year term. Mr Ehrnrooth is President and CEO of Metra Corporation.