Information relating to the total number of shares and voting rights which form the share capital as at 31 August 2009
The total number of voting rights attached to the 317,391,548 ordinary shares is 12,706,974,160 voting rights*, the following being deducted:
- 666,073,880 voting rights corresponding (i) to 16,412,608 shares held by GET SA, (ii) to 239,239 shares held as at 31st August 2009 through Exane BNP Paribas under the liquidity agreement and for which voting rights are withheld in accordance with article L. 225-210 of the French Commercial Code;
- 58,520 voting rights attached to 1,463 shares held by the subsidiaries of GET SA which cannot be exercised in general meeting in accordance with article L. 233-31 of the French Commercial Code.
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(1) The share capital is set at an amount of one hundred twenty six million nine hundred and fifty six thousand six hundred and nineteen euros and twenty one cent (€126,956,619.21). The share capital is divided into 317,391,548 ordinary shares of a nominal value of €0.40 each (A Shares), fully paid up and one B preference share, fully paid up of a nominal value of €0.01 (B Share).
(2) In accordance with article 27-8° of the Company’s constitutional document, “Each member has the same number of votes as the number of shares in the Company that he holds and represents, whether in his name or by proxy, without limit. Until the expiry of a two-year period starting on 12th November 2007, being the start of the consolidation operations as stated in the Consolidation Notice published by the Company in the “Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires” in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Extraordinary General Meeting of 20th June 2007, any A Share which has not been consolidated will result in its holder having one (1) vote and any consolidated A Share in forty (40) votes, so that the number of votes attached to the Company’s A Shares is proportional to the part of the capital represented by it”.
(3) A double voting right is set out under Article 11 of the Company’s constitutional document “As from the date of admission of the Company’s shares to trading on a regulated market, a voting right double that which is conferred on other A Shares, by reference to the fraction of share capital they represent, is attributed, under the conditions provided by applicable law and regulations, to all fully paid-up A Shares which can be shown to have been held by the same shareholder in registered form for two years (such two year period running from the date of admission of the Company’s shares to trading on a regulated market).”
