Shareholder's guide:
how can I participate in the General Meeting?




Eligibility to participate in the General Meeting

All shareholders can attend the General Meeting and can be represented by another shareholder or their partner, can vote remotely or can authorise the President of the General Meeting.

 

To personally attend the General Meeting or to be represented or to vote remotely, you must prove you are a shareholder.

Procedures to take part in ordinary or extraordinary general meetings

In accordance with Article R-225-85 of the French Code of Commerce, all shareholders are entitled to take part in ordinary or extraordinary general meetings subject to account postings of the securities in the name of the shareholder or the intermediary registered on the account on the third business day preceding the meeting at midnight Paris time, either in the accounts of registered securities held by the Company (or by the representative) or in accounts for bearer shares held by the official intermediary. Accounting registration of securities in bearer share accounts held by the official intermediary is recorded by an attestation provided by the intermediary, as an attachment to the form for remote voting or voting by proxy or to the official admission drawn up in the name of the shareholder or to the account of the shareholder represented by the intermediary registered.

How to attend the general meeting

If you wish to physically attend the General Meeting, you just need to make a request by returning the voting form: - this can be either to the UPTEVIA for registered shareholders, - or to the financial intermediary for bearer shareholders.

You will then receive your admission card. Requests should be sent to: How to attend the General Meeting UPTEVIA - CTO 9 rue du débarcadère 93 761 Pantin Cedex. If you have not requested your admission card, you can still participate in the General Meeting by presenting a participation certificate drawn up by your financial intermediary, proving the accounting record of your shares and a piece of identification.

If you would like to vote remotely, resolution by resolution

To vote vote by post or represented at the General Meeting: click here
To vote online or appoint/revoke a proxy electronically: click here

If you wish to be represented at the General Meeting

Simply complete the voting form and return it to BNP Paribas Securities Services using the prepaid envelope (for registered shares) or to the intermediary who manages your securities account (for bearer shares) who will forward the document along with a participation certificate evidencing the accounting registration of your shares
This form allows you to:
either you submit it to Chairman of the Meeting by signing the voting form, who shall then issue a vote on your behalf in favour of adopting the draft resolutions presented or approved by the Board of Directors and a vote against in the opposite case,
or you can be represented by another shareholder or by your partner by checking box B and the corresponding box in the section "I hereby appoint" and providing the necessary information.

Under no circumstance can the shareholder return the voting form specifying both a proxy vote and a remote vote.
The voting form must be signed and dated.
All shareholders that have already voted, requested their admission card or requested a participation certificate can sell all or part of their shares at any time. If the transfer occurs before the third business day preceding the General Meeting, it is the account holder's duty to notify the company or its representative of the sale.