A company which has made an offer and whose employer, or the representative appointed by the employer from among the company’s officers or employees, fails to attend the meeting of the social and economic committee to which he has been invited in accordance with the conditions set out in Articles L. 2312-42 and L. 2312-46, may not exercise the voting rights attached to the securities of the company which is the subject of the offer and which it holds or may come to hold. This prohibition extends to companies that control it or that it controls within the meaning ofArticle L. 233-16 of the Commercial Code.
An identical sanction applies to the offeror, a natural person, who fails to attend the social and economic committee meeting to which he has been invited in accordance with the conditions set out in articles L. 2312-42 and L. 2312-46.
The sanction is lifted the day after the offeror is heard by the social and economic committee of the company that is the subject of the offer.
The sanction is also lifted if the bidder is not invited to a new meeting of the social and economic committee within fifteen days of the meeting to which he was previously invited.