Preliminary Formalities
You may choose to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting in person, to vote by mail or by proxy.
Regardless of how you choose to participate, your shares must be recorded on the third trading day preceeding the meeting at 00.00 a.m., Paris time. Since January 1st, 2007, you are no longer required to block your shares to participate in the meeting. After your shares have been recorded, you can sell all or part of them and nevertheless participate in the meeting.
If you own registered shares:
Sociéte Générale, our stock account holder, will send you a notice of meeting and a form enabling you to ask for an admission card, vote by mail or by proxy.
You have no formalities to complete, ownership of your shares is evidenced by their entry on the register.
If you own bearer shares:
You should request a notice of meeting and the above mentioned form from your financial intermediary managing your share account.
Your financial intermediary will provide evidence of your ownership of the shares directly to Société Générale, the bank organizing the Shareholders’ Meeting, by attaching a certificate of participation (attestation de participation) to the form you have sent to your financial intermediary.
To attend the shareholders’ meeting in person:
You should request an admission card.
If you own registered shares
You only need to send the form duly signed and dated in the prepaid envelope you received with the notice of meeting or send the form to:
Société Générale
Service des assemblées
32, rue du Champ de tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 03
France
If you own bearer shares:
You should apply for your admission card directly to the financial intermediary managing your share account, who will transmit your request to Société Générale; the latter will then send you your admission card. If you have not received your admission card on the third day preceeding the meeting, you must ask your financial intermediary to send you a certificate of participation.
You should send back your application for an admission card as early as possible in order to receive the card in due time.
To vote by mail or by proxy:
You have 3 options:
- vote by mail
- give your proxy to the Chairman of the Meeting (in this case, the Chairman will vote in favor of the adoption of the proposed resolutions presented by the Board of Directors)
- give your proxy to your spouse or another shareholder who will attend the meeting
If you own registered shares
You only need to send the form duly signed and dated in the prepaid envelope you received with the notice of meeting or send the form to:
Société Générale
Service des assemblées
32, rue du Champ de tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 03
France
If you own bearer shares:
You should send back the form duly completed to the financial intermediary managing your share account, who will send the form to Société Générale with a certificate of participation.
Important: once you have asked for an admission card, voted by mail, or sent a proxy, you cannot opt to participate in another way
