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Article L228-33 of the French Commercial code

In the event of a free distribution of shares, new preference shares without voting rights and with the same rights as the investment certificates must be created and delivered free of charge to the owners of the old certificates, in the proportion of the number of new shares allocated to the old shares, unless they waive their right in favour of all or some of the holders.

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Article L228-33

En cas de distribution gratuite d’actions, de nouvelles actions de préférence sans droit de vote et assorties des mêmes droits que les certificats d’investissement doivent être créées et remises gratuitement aux propriétaires des certificats anciens, dans la proportion du nombre des actions nouvelles attribuées aux actions anciennes, sauf renonciation de leur part au profit de l’ensemble des porteurs ou de certains d’entre eux.

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