Article 32 - Crossing of thresholds
Any private individual or legal entity referred to in Articles L. 233-7, L. 233-9, and L. 223-10 of the French Commercial Code who comes to directly or
indirectly hold a number of shares representing a percentage of the Companys share capital or voting rights higher than or equal to 2.5% or a multiple of that percentage, either on a stand-alone basis or in concert, must inform the Company of
the total number of shares, voting rights, and securities granting access to the share capital or to voting rights immediately or in the future that they hold, via registered letter with a request for an acknowledgment of receipt sent to the
registered office within a period of four trading days, prior to the market close as from the point when they crossed said percentage threshold(s).
The
disclosure obligation provided for above also applies under the same conditions when each threshold mentioned above is crossed downwards.
If they have
not been reported under the conditions specified above, shares or voting rights that exceed the percentage that should have been reported will be stripped of their voting rights at General Meetings of Shareholders at any Meeting that may be held
until the expiry of a two-year period following the date when the notice of interest was made compliant, in accordance with Article L. 233-14 of the French Commercial Code, if a failure to report has been observed, and if one or several shareholders
holding an interest of at least 2.5% have made a request recorded in the minutes of the General Meeting of Shareholders.
The above reports will apply
notwithstanding the reports on the crossing of thresholds provided for by the legal or regulatory provisions in effect.
Article 33 - Rights and
obligations attached to the shares
Each share entitles the holder to a share in the Companys profits and assets, in proportion to the amount of
capital that it represents.
Furthermore, each share entitles the holder to vote and be represented at General Meetings of Shareholders under legal and
statutory provisions.
Shareholders will only be liable up to the amount of the par value of the shares that they hold; any calls for funds above that
amount are prohibited.
Ownership of a share automatically entails adherence to the Companys By-Laws and to the decisions of the General Meeting of
Shareholders.
Heirs, creditors, assigns, or other representatives of a shareholder will not be entitled to request seizure of the Companys assets
or securities, or ask for them to be shared out or sold at auction, nor interfere in administrative acts relating to the Company in order to exercise their rights; they must refer to the company records and to the resolutions of the General Meeting
of Shareholders.
Whenever it is necessary to hold several shares in order to exercise a given right, such as in the case of an exchange, reverse share
split or allotment of shares, or an increase or decrease in the share capital, or a merger or other corporate transaction, the holders of single shares, or of a lower number of shares than required, may only exercise these rights if they personally
arrange for the consolidation, and potentially the purchase or sale of the shares required.
However, in the event of the exchange of securities following
a merger or demerger transaction, a capital decrease, a reverse share split or share split, and the mandatory conversion of bearer shares to registered shares, or of the distribution of securities charged to the reserves relating to a capital
decrease, or the distribution or allotment of bonus shares, based solely on a decision by the Board of Directors, the Company may sell securities that the beneficiaries have requested to be delivered to them, as long as it has carried out the
publication formalities provided for in the regulations at least two years beforehand.
As from the sale, the old securities or the old rights to
distributions or allotments will be canceled, as and when required, and their holders will only be able to claim the cash allocation of the net proceeds of the sale of the unclaimed securities.
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