The Articles of Association must provide for an age limit for the performance of the duties of Supervisory Board member applying either to all Supervisory Board members or to a specified percentage of them.
In the absence of an express provision in the Articles of Association, the number of Supervisory Board members who have reached the age of seventy may not exceed one third of the Supervisory Board members in office.
Any appointment made in breach of the provisions of the previous paragraph shall be null and void.
In the absence of an express provision in the Articles of Association providing for another procedure, when the statutory or legal limit set for the age of Supervisory Board members is exceeded, the oldest Supervisory Board member shall be deemed to have resigned automatically.
A Supervisory Board member placed under guardianship shall also be deemed to have resigned automatically.
The nullity provided for in the third paragraph and the compulsory resignation provided for in the fourth and penultimate paragraphs shall not entail the nullity of the deliberations in which the member of the Supervisory Board who was improperly appointed or deemed to have compulsorily resigned took part.