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 You can hold your shares "au nominatif" (i.e registered in the owner's name), as opposed to holding them in bearer form.
The main advantage is that you then are know from the company. Therefore, you can be sure to always have the proper information in time (Shareholder letter, convocation to GA,...). If you so choose, the shares can also be held in "nominatif pur" form, meaning registered directly with the company (which entails transferring the share inscription from your bank to the Société Générale, as the share registar agent of the Company).
In such case, please contact
Nathalie Riou-Sedran at the Société Générale, Service des titres
Tel : +33 (0)1 59 85 50 67
Shareholder's Meeting
Subject to applicable law and these bylaws, every member of the Meeting shall have a number of votes equal to the number of shares that he possesses or represents. However, a double voting right is attributed to all registered, fully paid up shares which have been registered in the name of the same holder for at least three years. This provision of the bylaws was approved by the Combined General Shareholders' Meeting of October 17, 2000. It became applicable from October 17, 2003, for any shareholders that have held their shares for at least three years by this date.
Regardless of the number of shares which it possesses directly and/or indirectly, a shareholder's voting rights with respect to the votes attached to the shares it owns or in respect of which it has a power of representation, is limited to 8% of the votes cast and taken into account with respect to each vote on resolutions at a General Shareholders' Meeting. If a shareholder also possesses double votes either on its own behalf or as a representative, the stated limit may be exceeded taking into account only the additional
voting rights up to the limit of 16% of the votes cast and taken into account with respect to each vote on resolutions at a General Shareholders' Meeting.
Shares which are held indirectly and those which are assimilated as being shares held pursuant to articles L.233-7 and subsequent articles of the New Commercial Code shall be taken into account when determining this limitation. The limitation determined in the above paragraph shall become automatically null and void as soon as an individual or a legal entity holds at least 66.66% of the total number of shares in the Company, whether individually or together with one or more individuals or legal entities, as a result of a takeover bid by way of purchase or exchange of shares for all the Company's shares.
The Board of Directors shall recognize the invalidation of the limitation when the results of the take over procedure are published. The foregoing restriction does not affect the Chairman of the Shareholders' Meeting when voting pursuant to proxies received in accordance with the legal obligations contained in article L.225-106 of the New Commercial Code. The voting right is exercised by the holder of the beneficial right in shares at all ordinary, extraordinary or special
General Shareholders' Meetings.
Managing your shares
Subscription : You can do so through the bank at which your shares are deposited/inscribed.
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