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Article R228-3 of the French Commercial code

I.-The information referred to in I and II of Article L. 228-2 and in Article L. 228-3 is, for each security owner, as follows: 1° Those listed in items 1 (a) to 11 of Table 2 of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 of 3 September 2018; 2° If expressly requested by the issuing company or its authorised representative, the information set out in item 12 of C…

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Article R228-6 of the French Commercial code

A registered intermediary who is the beneficiary of a mandate referred to in Article L. 228-3-2 may transmit or issue under his signature the votes of the owners of shares or bonds. The mandates and proxies are kept for a period of three years from the General Meeting at which the voting rights were exercised. .

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Article R228-8 of the French Commercial code

Registers of registered securities issued by a company shall be drawn up by that company or by a person authorised by it for that purpose. These registers may be kept chronologically on paper or on any other durable medium, in particular by means of a shared electronic recording device. In addition, files may be kept containing, in alphabetical order, the names and addresses of the holders of securities, together with…

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Article R228-9 of the French Commercial code

The registers referred to in article R. 228-8 shall contain details of securities transfer and conversion transactions, and in particular: 1° The date of the transaction; 2° The surname, first names and domicile of the former and new holders of the securities, in the event of a transfer; 3° The surname, first names and domicile of the holder of the securities, in the event of the conversion of bearer securities…

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Article R228-10 of the French Commercial code

For the application of the last sentence of the ninth paragraph of Article L. 228-1, the entry in the buyer’s account or in a shared electronic recording device is made on the date set by agreement between the parties and notified to the issuing company.

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Article R228-11 of the French Commercial code

The sale by the company of shares that could not be allocated individually, as provided for in article L. 228-6, is preceded by the publication of a notice in two newspapers with national circulation; this notice gives notice to the holders of the rights to assert their rights within a period of one year and informs them that the company will proceed with the sale on expiry of this period….

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Article R228-12 of the French Commercial code

The sale provided for in Article L. 228-6-1 of the equity securities that could not be allocated individually and corresponding to the rights forming fractional shares, as well as the distribution of the sums from this sale to the holders of the rights, shall take place within thirty days of the latest of the dates on which the whole number of equity securities allocated is recorded in the account of…

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