BOOK II: Commercial companies and economic interest groupings.

The annual financial statements, the management report, the text of the proposed resolutions and, where applicable, the consolidated financial statements, the Group management report and the statutory auditor’s reports on the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements shall be sent to the shareholders at least fifteen days before the date of the meeting provided for in Article L. 223-26. For a period of fifteen days prior to the…

The six-month period provided for the shareholders’ meeting by article L. 223-26 may be extended, at the request of the manager, by order of the president of the commercial court, ruling on a petition.

The reports mentioned in article L. 223-26-1 shall be made available to the public on the company’s website within eight months of the end of the financial year and for a period of five years.

If a meeting other than that provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 223-26, the text of the proposed resolutions, the managers’ report and, where applicable, the statutory auditors’ report are sent to the shareholders at least fifteen days before the date of the meeting. In addition, during the fifteen-day period preceding the meeting, the same documents are made available to members at the registered office, who may…

Partners are convened by registered letter at least fifteen days before the meeting. The letter shall indicate the agenda. However, when the meeting is convened, due to the death of the sole manager, by the statutory auditor or a member, in accordance with the provisions of the eighth paragraph of Article L. 223-27, the time limit is reduced to eight days. A company that intends to use electronic communication instead…

When a shareholder wishes to make use of the option to request that items or draft resolutions be included on the agenda of a meeting, pursuant to the fifth paragraph of Article L. 223-27, he may ask the company, by simple or registered letter or by electronic mail, to notify him, using one of these methods, of the date scheduled for the meeting. The company is required to send this…

A request for items or draft resolutions to be included on the agenda of the meeting by one or more shareholders holding at least one-twentieth of the shares on the day the request is sent must be sent to the company by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by e-mail with acknowledgement of receipt, at least twenty-five days before the date of the meeting. The request for the inclusion…

In order to guarantee, with a view to the application of the third paragraph of Article L. 223-27, the identification and effective participation in the meeting of shareholders attending by videoconference or telecommunication means, these means transmit at least the voice of the participants and comply with technical characteristics allowing continuous and simultaneous retransmission of the deliberations. Companies whose articles of association allow members to vote at meetings by electronic…

A shareholder’s proxy is given for a single meeting. It may, however, be given for two meetings held on the same day or within a period of seven days. A mandate given for one meeting is valid for successive meetings convened with the same agenda.

In the event of a written consultation, the text of the proposed resolutions and the documents required to inform the members shall be sent to each member by registered letter. The members shall have a minimum period of fifteen days, from the date of receipt of the draft resolutions, to cast their vote in writing.