Combined Shareholders' Meeting of April 28, 2016
8.2 Draft resolutions presented at the Shareholders' Meeting
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transaction relating to the share capital, the price indicated
above will be adjusted by a multiplying factor equal to the ratio
between the number of shares comprising the share capital
before the transaction and the number of shares comprising
the share capital after the transaction.
4.
Acknowledges that the maximum number of shares that may be
purchased under this authorization may not, at any time, exceed
10% of the total number of shares comprising the share capital
(
i.e.
, on an indicative basis, 65,495,120 shares as of December 31,
2015, without taking into account the shares already held by the
Company, representing a maximum theoretical purchase amount
(excluding acquisition costs) of €4,912,134,000), it being specified
that (i) this limit applies to an amount of the Company's capital
that will be, if necessary, adjusted to take into account the tran-
sactions affecting the share capital following this Meeting and (ii)
in accordance with Article L.225-209 of the French commercial
code, when shares are repurchased to enhance liquidity under
the conditions set out in the general regulations of the French
Financial Markets Authority, the number of shares taken into
account for the calculation of the above-mentioned 10% limit
corresponds to the number of shares purchased, minus the
number of shares resold during the authorization. The acquisi-
tions made by the Company may not under any circumstances
result in the Company holding more than 10% of its share capital,
either directly or indirectly through subsidiaries.
Furthermore, the number of shares acquired by the Company
to be retained and later delivered for payment or exchange in
the context of an external growth transactions may not exceed
5% of its share capital.
5.
Delegates full powers to the Board of Directors with the ability to
sub-delegate in accordance with the conditions set out by law, to:
•
place all orders on any market or carry out any transaction
over the counter;
•
enter into any agreements for, among other purposes, the
maintenance of the shares purchase and sale registries;
•
allocate or re-allocate the shares acquired to the various
objectives under the applicable legal and regulatory conditions;
•
prepare all documents, file all declarations, issue all statements
and carry out all formalities with the French Financial Markets
Authority or any other authority regarding the transactions
carried out pursuant to this resolution;
•
define the terms and conditions under which, where appli-
cable, the rights of holders of securities giving access to the
Company's share capital will be preserved in accordance
with regulatory provisions; and
•
carry out all other formalities and, generally, take any nec-
essary measures.
The Board of Directors will inform the Shareholders' Meeting of the
transactions carried out pursuant to this resolution.
This authorization is granted for an 18-month period as from the
date of this Meeting and supersedes with effect from this day the
authorization granted by the Shareholders' Meeting of April 29, 2015
in its 19
th
resolution.
Resolutions within the authority of the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting
Seventeenth resolution
(Authorization granted to the Board of Directors
to allocate existing or newly issued shares of the
Company, without preferential subscription right
of the shareholders)
The Shareholders' Meeting, acting under the conditions of quorum
and majority required for extraordinary shareholders' meetings,
having reviewed the Board of Directors' report and the special report
of the Statutory auditors, in accordance with Articles L.225-197-1
et seq. of the French commercial code:
1.
Authorizes the Board of Directors to freely allocate, on one or
more occasions, shares of the Company, existing or to be issued,
to members of staff or to certain categories thereof that it shall
select among eligible employees and corporate officers of the
Company and of affiliates of the Company within the meaning of
Article L.225-197-2 of the French commercial code. If the shares
allocated are to be issued, this authorization will result, after the
expiration of the vesting period(s), in a capital increase through
the incorporation of reserves, earnings or premiums in favor of
the beneficiaries of said shares.
2.
Decides that the Board of Directors will proceed with the alloca-
tions and will determine the identity of the beneficiaries of said
allocations.
3.
Decides that the allocation of shares in accordance with this
authorization may not represent a number of existing or newly
issued shares exceeding 0.2% of the Company's share capital
at the end of this Meeting; this percentage shall be calculated
without taking into account the adjustments that may be made
in accordance with any applicable legal and regulatory require-
ments or any contractual provisions providing for any other ad-
justments as the case may be, to protect the rights of the holders
of securities or other rights giving access to the share capital. It
is noted that the nominal amount of the existing or newly issued
shares allocated pursuant to this authorization shall be deducted
from the limits provided for in paragraph (a) of the 20
th
and 21
st
resolutions submitted to the Shareholders' Meeting of April 29,
2015.
4.
Decides that the existing or newly issued shares allocated pur-
suant to this authorization may be allocated, in accordance with
legal requirements, to corporate officers of the Company, provi-
ded that the total thereof does not represent more than 0.03% of
the Company's share capital at the end of this Meeting (subject to
any adjustment mentioned in the preceding paragraph).
5.
Decides that the allocation of shares to their beneficiaries will
become final after a vesting period, the duration of which will
be set by the Board of Directors and shall not be less than three
years. The beneficiaries must hold said shares for a duration set
by the Board of Directors and the holding period may not be less
than two years after the final allocation of such shares. However,
if the vesting period for all or a part of one or more allocations is
a minimum of four years, the Shareholders' Meeting authorizes
the Board of Directors not to impose any holding period for the
shares in question. It is reminded that the Board of Directors may
provide for longer vesting and holding periods than the afore-
mentioned minimum durations.
6.
Expressly subjects the final allocation of all existing or newly
issued shares under this resolution to the achievement of the
performance conditions determined by the Board of Directors
and presented in the Board of Directors' report.
7.
Decides, moreover, that, in the event that the disability of the
beneficiary corresponds to a classification in the second or third




