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Participating in the General Shareholder's Meeting

Notice

All shareholders, irrespective of the number of owned share, take part in the the General Shareholders’ Meeting.
bioMérieux releases a notice with the text of the resolutions proposed to the Shareholders’ Meeting in the “Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires” (French Bulletin of Compulsory Legal Announcements).

Registered shareholders for at least one month at the notice date receive an individual invitation  to the General Shareholders’ Meeting together with a voting form.

Participation

To have the right to attend or to be represented to the Shareholders’ Meeting, the shareholder has to prove his/her identity and his/her shareownership status  during the recording formalities, by the third working day preceding the Shareholders’ Meeting at midnight (Paris time).

1. Admission card

In order to facilitate shareholders' access to the  General Shareholders’ Meeting, the shareholder should ask for an admission card prior to the meeting, according to the hereafter procedure:

For holders of registered shares :

  • Either contact UPTEVIA - Service des Assemblées Générales - 90 - 110 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle - 92931 Paris La Défense Cedex, France.
  • Or apply online on the secure VOTACCESS platform:
  1. Holders of direct registered shares should log on to their Shareholder Area using their usual access codes at https://www.investors.uptevia.com/. Once they have logged in to their Shareholders' Area, they should follow the on-screen instructions to access the VOTACCESS website and request their admission card. If shareholders are no longer in possession of their login and/or password, they can contact the number 0 800 007 546 from France or +33 1 49 37 82 38 from abroad, which will be made available to them.
  2. Holders of intermediary registered shares should connect to VoteAG (https://www.voteag.com/) using the temporary codes sent on the Single Voting Form or the electronic invitation. Once on the home page of the site, they should follow the on-screen instructions to access the VOTACCESS site and request an admission card.
  • Or, on the day of the Meeting go directly to the counter specially provided for this purpose with an identity document.

For holders of bearer shares :

  • Either as the intermediary who manages your shares to send you an admission card;
  • Or, if the authorized intermediary who manages your account is connected to VOTACCESS website, request an admittance card electronically as follows after logging on to the intermediary's internet portal with your usual access codes, click on the icon appearing on the line corresponding to your bioMérieux shares and follow the instructions on the screen to access the VOTACCESS site and request an admission card.

2. Delegating their authority to the Chairman and postal voting form

If the shareholder can not personally take part to the General Shareholders’ Meeting, he/she can choose between one of the following three formulae:

  1. Send a mandate to the Company without any representative's indication. Resolutions presented or approved by the Board of directors will consequently be favourably voted. All the other resolutions will be unfavourably voted.
  2. Vote by correspondence. The Company does not set up electronic telecommunication means to vote by correspondence, but a writing form (cf. hereafter).
  3. Give a mandate to his wife/her husband, to another shareholder, to the partner with whom he/she concluded a civil union (PACS) or to any other person or legal entity of his/her choice under the applicable legal and statutory requirements.

Once the notice of the General Shareholders’ Meeting has been published, each bearer shareholder can request a voting form to his/her financial intermediary. This request should be made no later than six days before the date of the Meeting.

This  postal voting form must then be returned to the financial intermediary, which then will send it to UPTEVIA - Service des Assemblées Générales - 90 - 110 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle - 92931 Paris La Défense Cedex, France. The postal votes will be taken into account only if forms are duly filled and are received by the Company or its above-mentioned representative three calendar days at least before the General Sahreholders’ Meeting.

Documents available for shareholders

Shareholders can get the documents relating to the General Shareholders’ Meeting under the deadlines and conditions set by the commercial law*, A simple demand is to be sent to the Company’s head office or to UPTEVIA. These documents are also avalaible for shareholders at the Company’s head office.

These information and documents in their entirety can also be consulted, at the latest starting the twenty-first day preceding the General Shareholders’ Meeting, on the Company’s web site: www.biomerieux.com - General Shareholders' Meeting section

* Articles R225-81, R225-83, R225-88 of the French « Code du Commerce »