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Article L225-18-1 of the French Commercial code

The proportion of directors of each sex may not be less than 40% at the end of the next general meeting called to vote on appointments, in companies which, for the third consecutive financial year, employ an average number of at least two hundred and fifty permanent employees and have net sales or a balance sheet total of at least 50 million euros. In these same companies, where the board of directors is made up of no more than eight members, the difference between the number of directors of each sex may not exceed two.

Any appointment made in breach of the first paragraph and which does not have the effect of remedying the irregularity in the composition of the board is null and void.

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Article L225-18-1

La proportion des administrateurs de chaque sexe ne peut être inférieure à 40 % à l’issue de la plus prochaine assemblée générale ayant à statuer sur des nominations, dans les sociétés qui, pour le troisième exercice consécutif, emploient un nombre moyen d’au moins deux cent cinquante salariés permanents et présentent un montant net de chiffre d’affaires ou un total de bilan d’au moins 50 millions d’euros. Dans ces mêmes sociétés, lorsque le conseil d’administration est composé au plus de huit membres, l’écart entre le nombre des administrateurs de chaque sexe ne peut être supérieur à deux.

Toute nomination intervenue en violation du premier alinéa et n’ayant pas pour effet de remédier à l’irrégularité de la composition du conseil est nulle.

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