Where there are securities giving access to the capital, the company purchasing its shares admitted to trading on a regulated market shall, where the purchase price is higher than the stock market price, adjust the number of shares that these securities make it possible to obtain.
This adjustment guarantees, to the nearest hundredth of a share, that the value of the shares that are obtained in the event of the exercise of the rights attached to the securities giving access to the capital after the completion of the transaction is identical to the value of those that would have been obtained in the event of the exercise of the rights prior to this transaction.
To this end, the new bases for exercising rights are calculated by taking into account the ratio between, on the one hand, the product of the percentage of capital bought back by the difference between the buyback price and a weighted average of the prices for at least the last three trading sessions preceding the buyback or buyback option and, on the other hand, this average. Any successive adjustments are made on the basis of the immediately preceding parity, rounded off as described in the previous paragraph.
The Board of Directors or the Executive Board shall report on the elements of the calculation and the results of the adjustment in the following annual report
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