How to attend the general meetings ?
All shareholders whose shares have been registered in a share account 3 trading days prior to the date of the Meeting may attend on the following express condition:
- for shareholders owning bearer shares: they must present an admittance card or, alternatively, a certificate stating the ownership of their shares (in order to obtain the admittance card at the entrance to the Meeting),
- for shareholders owning registered shares: they may attend the Meeting without completing any formalities in particular. However, in order to facilitate their admission and avoid waiting in the reception area outside the meeting room, it is preferable that they complete and return the application form for an admittance card enclosed with their notice to attend the meeting.
How to vote ?
If they are unable to attend the Meeting, shareholders should complete the form enclosed with the notice to attend and return it to the Company. This document will enable them:
- either to vote by mail,
- or to be represented by their spouse or another shareholder, an individual or a legal entity,
- or to give the Chairman of the Meeting power to vote on their behalf, giving the name of no other representative or proxy.
If they attend the Meeting, they will be given, as appropriate:
- a ballot paper,
- an electronic device along with its instructions for use. Starting with the Annual General Meeting convened in 1998, the B.N.P. decided to use electronic voting...
Using Internet to participate in the General Meeting
BNP Paribas is offering its shareholders the possibility of voting via the Internet prior to the Ordinary and Extraordinary Annual General Meeting under the conditions described below:
- Registered shareholders
Holders of pure registered shares who wish to vote via the Internet prior to the Meeting, must use the ID number and password that already allow them to access their account data on the GISNOMI Web site. They will thus be able to log on to the Annual General Meeting's secure dedicated Web site. The shareholder then simply follows the instructions displayed on the screen.
Holders of administered registered shares shall use the login on the top right corner of the voting form to access the shareholders' meeting dedicated website. Then, the shareholder will have to follow the instructions on the screen in order to receive first his/her ID number by post, then a password through a following mail.
- Holders of bearer shares
Holders of bearer shares who wish to vote via the Internet prior to the Annual General Meeting must get in touch with their account-holding institution, in order to request that it establishes a certificate of participation; they must also indicate their e-mail address. In accordance with the usual procedure, the account-holding institution transmits this certificate, along with the e-mail address, to BNP Paribas Securities Services, GCT - Services aux Émetteurs - Assemblées, the authorised agent of BNP Paribas and the manager of the Web site for voting via the Internet. This e-mail address will be used by GCT - Assemblées to inform shareholders of their ID numbers so that they can log on to the secure Web site used exclusively for voting prior to the Annual General Meeting. The shareholder then simply follows the instructions on the screen.
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