BOOK II: Commercial companies and economic interest groupings.

Shareholders who have held registered shares for at least one month on the date of insertion of the notice of meeting provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 225-67 are convened to all meetings by ordinary letter. Shareholders may ask to be convened by registered letter, provided that they send the company the amount of the cost of the recommendation. This notice may also be sent by electronic…

The period between the date either of the insertion or of the last of the insertions containing a notice of meeting, or of the dispatch of the letters, or of the transmission of the notice of meeting by electronic telecommunication, and the date of the meeting shall be at least fifteen days on first notice and ten days on subsequent notice. When the meeting is convened pursuant to the provisions…

When a meeting is unable to deliberate regularly due to a lack of the required quorum, a second meeting is convened in the manner provided for in articles R. 225-67 and R. 22-10-20 and the notice of meeting states the date of the first meeting. The same applies to the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting or a Special Meeting extended under the conditions provided for in the second paragraph…

A request for items or draft resolutions to be included on the agenda of the meeting, by shareholders representing at least 5% of the share capital, shall be sent to the registered office by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by electronic telecommunication. However, where the company’s capital exceeds 750,000 euros, the amount of capital to be represented pursuant to the previous paragraph is, depending on the size of…

Any shareholder of a company whose shares are all in registered form and who wishes to make use of the option to request the inclusion of items or draft resolutions on the agenda of a meeting may ask the company to notify him, by registered letter or by an electronic means of telecommunication implemented under the conditions mentioned in Article R. 225-63, at the address indicated by him, of the…

I.-When the company’s shares are not all in registered form, the notice referred to in article R. 225-66 is preceded by a notice published in the Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires, at least thirty-five days before the general meeting is held. This period is reduced to fifteen days when the general meeting is convened pursuant to the provisions of article L. 233-32. The notice referred to in the previous paragraph…

The Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Management Board shall acknowledge receipt of requests to include items or draft resolutions on the agenda, by registered letter, within five days of such receipt. This acknowledgement of receipt may also be sent by electronic means of telecommunication implemented under the conditions mentioned in Article R. 225-63, to the address indicated by the shareholder. Items and draft resolutions are included on…

As from the date on which the meeting is convened, any shareholder may request in writing that the company send him a remote voting form, by electronic means if necessary, under the conditions defined in Article R. 225-61. This request must be handed in or received at the registered office no later than six days before the date of the meeting.

The postal voting form allows a vote on each of the resolutions, in the order in which they are presented at the meeting; it offers the shareholder the possibility of expressing on each resolution a vote in favour or against its adoption or his wish to abstain from voting. It informs the shareholder in a very conspicuous manner that any abstention expressed in the form or resulting from the absence…

The date after which voting forms received by the Company will no longer be taken into account may not be more than three days before the date of the General Meeting, unless a shorter period is provided for in the Articles of Association. However, electronic remote voting forms may be received by the Company up to 3 p.m. Paris time at the latest on the day before the General Meeting….