Every shareholder has the right to participate in the Shareholers' Meeting and holds as many votes as the number of voting shares that he or she owns or represents: 1 share = 1 vote.
Since 3 April 2016, fully paid-up shares that have been registered for at least two years in the name of the same shareholder are automatically entitled to double voting rights.
To personally attend the Shareholders’ Meeting, or to be represented or vote, you must own securities registered in your name, up to the second business day before the Shareholders’ Meeting at midnight, Paris time.
Regardless of how you hold your shares, you can exercise your shareholder rights online or by mail in order to:
- request an admission card;
- vote;
- grant power to the Chairman;
- grant power to any other person.
Exercise your rights via the Internet
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You can use the VOTACCESS platform if your financial intermediary offers you this service:
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To note:
- The VOTACCESS platform is open 2-3 weeks prior the Shareholders’ Meeting.
- If you use the VOTACCESS platform, you must not use the postal voting form.
Exercise your rights by postal mail
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Uptevia *Uptevia is a joint venture owned equally by BNP Paribas and CACEIS, combining both banks’ issuer services divisions. |
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How to fill in the form?
You are a registered shareholder (issuer or bank-managed)
Fill in, date and sign the enclosed form. Return it to Uptevia using the post-paid ”T” envelope provided.
You are a holder of bearer shares
Ask your financial intermediary to send you the postal voting form. It must be filled in, dated, signed and returned to your financial intermediary, who will be responsible for sending it to Uptevia and will enclose a certificate of holding with it.
Asking questions
Written questions, prior to the Shareholders’ Meeting: every shareholder has the right to send his or her written questions to the Board of Directors, in accordance with the French Commercial Code, detailed in the convening notice published in the BALO or in the convening notice for the Sareholders’ Meeting.
AMF Guides / Documents

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