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Annual Shareholders meeting

Voting in shareholders' meetings

If you are unable to attend shareholders’ meeting in person, you can vote in one of 3 ways as stipulated in the notice of meeting:

• By correspondence. To do so, fill in the box next to “I wish to vote by correspondence” then fill in the boxes next to any resolutions you disagree with.

• Give your proxy to the Chairman. As a shareholder, simply date and sign at the bottom of the form, leaving the rest blank. That means you cast your vote in favor of all the draft resolutions submitted or approved by the Board of Directors, and against any draft resolutions hostile to the Board.

• Give you proxy to your spouse or to another shareholder. Tick the corresponding box, indicating the family name and first name, or registered name of the proxy holder.

Whatever you decide to do, and whatever the form in which you hold your shares (registered or bearer), you should date and sign your completed form, and send it to:

Société Générale

Département des titres et Bourse
Service des Assemblées
32, rue du Champ-de-Tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 3 

The foregoing instructions are valid solely if the corresponding shares have been registered with the financial institution that manages your securities account and  proof of share ownership has been submitted to Société Générale by the required deadline.

 

Voting rules for shareholders’ meetings

 

• Quorum

A minimum number of persons or shares represented must be present at the meeting for its decisions to be deemed valid:

For an ordinary shareholders’ meeting :
- 1/5 of shares outstanding at the first meeting called
- No quorum is required for the second meeting (called if a quorum is not found for the first meeting).

For an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting :
- 1/4 of shares outstanding at the first meeting called
- 1/5 of shares for the second meeting called

 

• Rules for determining the majority

These differ according to whether the meeting is an ordinary or an extraordinary one.
In an ordinary shareholders’ meeting, resolutions are passed by straight majority (50%) of shares present or represented.
In an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, resolutions require a 2/3 majority of shares present or represented.