delegates its authority to the Board of Directors, for a period of twenty-six months following the date of this Shareholders’ Meeting, with right to sub-delegate, in accordance with legal provisions in force and the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, the authority to increase the share capital, on one or more oc-casions, in the conditions laid down in articles L. 3332-18 et seq. of the French Labor Code, by issuing ordinary shares and/ or securities, against payment or free of charge, governed by Articles L. 228-92 paragraph 1 or L. 228-93 paragraphs 1 and 3 of the French Commercial Code, and that confer or may confer by any means, immediately or in the future, at any time or at a predetermined date, access, by subscription, conversion, exchange, redemption, presentation of a warrant or by any other means, to ordinary shares in the Company or in one of its direct or indirect subsidiaries as the case may be, in favor of members of a Company savings plan (or any other plan to members of which or which articles L. 3332-1 et seq. of the Labor Code or any similar law or regulation would make it possible to reserve a capital increase under equivalent conditions) and in French or foreign companies affiliated therewith under the conditions of Article L. 225-180 of the French Commercial Code and of Article L. 3344-1 et seq. of the French Labor Code. It should be noted that systems with a leverage effect could be implemented under the terms and conditions of this resolution.
It is specified that the issue of preferred shares as well as the issue of securities giving access to preferred shares is not allowed.
It should be noted that: