The formalities for shareholders to participate in the Shareholders’ General Meeting are described in Article 17 of the Company’s Articles of Association reproduced below:
“Shareholders’ General Meetings are convened and make decisions in accordance with the conditions provided for by law and the regulations in force.
“Meetings take place either at the registered office or at any other place specified in the convening notice.
“All shareholders, regardless of the number of shares that they own, may participate in Meetings either personally or through an agent, subject to providing proof of their identity and ownership of their shares:
“These formalities must be completed at the latest by the second working day prior to the meeting in question, at midnight Paris time. Shareholders wishing to physically participate in meetings that have not received their admission card by the second business day prior to the meeting at midnight, Paris time, will have an attestation of participation issued to them. However, the Board of Directors may shorten or eliminate this timeframe, provided that this is done to the benefit of all the shareholders.
“All shareholders may also, if the Board of Directors permits this when convening a Shareholders’ General Meeting, participate in the meeting in question by means of videoconferencing, or vote by any means of telecommunication or remote transmission, including via the Internet, in accordance with the conditions provided for in the applicable regulations at the time of its use. This decision is communicated in both the meeting and convening notices.
“Voting by correspondence is carried out in accordance with the conditions and terms set by the legislative and regulatory provisions. Shareholders may, under the conditions stipulated by the laws and regulations, send their proxy forms or postal voting forms for any Shareholders’ General Meeting either on paper or, if a decision authorising this is made by the Board of Directors, by remote transmission, including via the Internet. Shareholders using the electronic voting form made available on the website set in place for the meeting by the meeting's centralising agent for this purpose, within the required timeframes will be considered to be present or represented at the meeting. Said electronic form may be directly filled in and signed on this website by any process established by the Board of Directors that meets the conditions defined in the first sentence of the second paragraph of Article 1316-4 of the Civil Code and complies with Articles R.225-77 2° and R.225-79 of the Commercial Code and, more generally, complies with the legislative and regulatory provisions in force, which may notably consist of a login and a password.
“The proxy given or the vote thus cast before the meeting by such electronic means, and the corresponding acknowledgement of receipt, will be considered as irrevocable documents, enforceable on all, with it being specified that if a share transfer takes place before the second business day prior to the meeting at midnight, Paris time, the Company will either invalidate or modify accordingly, as the case may be, the proxy given or the vote expressed before this date and time.
“Shareholders’ General Meetings are chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or, in his absence, by the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors if one has been appointed, or if not, by a member of the Board of Directors specially authorised for this purpose by the Board. Failing this, the Meeting shall elect its own Chairman.
“The minutes of Shareholders’ General Meetings are drawn up, and copies thereof are certified and issued, in accordance with the regulatory provisions in force.”
At the next Shareholders’ General Meeting, in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of French Decree 2026-24 of 13 February 2026 relating to the modernisation of communication methods with shareholders of certain commercial companies, a resolution will be put to shareholders to replace the fourth paragraph above with the following: “These formalities must be completed within the period specified by applicable legal and regulatory provisions. Shareholders wishing to physically participate in meetings that have not received their admission card within the period specified by applicable legal and regulatory provisions will have an attestation of participation issued to them. However, the Board of Directors may shorten or eliminate this timeframe, provided that this is done to the benefit of all the shareholders.”
