I.-The Company’s Articles of Association must specify an age limit for directors or Supervisory Board members, applying either to all directors or 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 directors or Supervisory Board members over the age of seventy may not exceed one third of the directors or 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 age limit set for directors or Supervisory Board members is exceeded, the oldest director or Supervisory Board member is deemed to have resigned automatically.
II – The Articles of Association must specify an age limit for the positions of Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board which, in the absence of an express provision, is set at sixty-five years.
Any appointment made in breach of the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be null and void.
When a Chairman of the Board of Directors or a Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board reaches the age limit, he shall be deemed to have resigned automatically.
III – The Articles of Association must provide for an age limit for the exercise of the functions of Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Executive Officer or member of the Management Board which, in the absence of an express provision, is set at sixty-five years.
Any appointment made in breach of the provisions of the previous paragraph shall be null and void.
When a Managing Director, a Deputy Managing Director or a member of the Management Board reaches the age limit, he shall be deemed to have resigned automatically, at the latest at the General Meeting called to approve the accounts for the financial year.