Traduction de «assemblée générale d'actionnaires » (Français → Anglais) :

Member States may provide that the right referred to in point (a) may be exercised only in relation to the annual general meeting, provided that shareholders, acting individually or collectively, have the right to call, or to require the company to call, a general meeting which is not an annual general meeting with an agenda including at least all the items requested by those shareholders.

4. Member States shall ensure that, where the exercise of the right referred to in paragraph 1, point (a) entails a modification of the agenda for the general meeting already communicated to shareholders, the company shall make available a revised agenda in the same manner as the previous agenda in advance of the applicable record date as defined in Article 7(2) or, if no record date applies, sufficiently in advance of the date of the general meeting so as to enable other shareholders to appoint a proxy or, where applicable, to vote by correspondence.

2. Member States shall provide that the rights of a shareholder to participate in a general meeting and to vote in respect of his shares shall be determined with respect to the shares held by that shareholder on a specified date prior to the general meeting (the record date).

To that end, restrictions on the transfer of securities, restrictions on voting rights, extraordinary appointment rights and multiple voting rights should be removed or suspended during the time allowed for the acceptance of a bid and when the general meeting of shareholders decides on defensive measures, on amendments to the articles of association or on the removal or appointment of board members at the first general meeting of shareholders following closure of the bid.

To that end, restrictions on the transfer of securities, restrictions on voting rights, extraordinary appointment rights and multiple voting rights should be removed or suspended during the time allowed for the acceptance of a bid and when the general meeting of shareholders decides on defensive measures, on amendments to the articles of association or on the removal or appointment of board members at the first general meeting of shareholders following closure of the bid.

From the balance, the ordinary genéral meeting may, by resolution on a proposal from the Board of Directors, determine as it thinks fit the amounts to be deducted (up to the full amount of that balance) whether for carrying forward to the next financial year, for additional depreciation of the assets or for payment into a provident fund or to one or more general or special reserve funds. These funds may, in accordance with a resolution of the ordinary general meeting passed on a proposal from the Board of Directors, be applied to make up an interim dividend of 5 % to the shareholders, if the profits for one or more financial years have p ...[+++]roved insufficient therefor, or to the purchase and cancellation of shares of the company, or to paying such shares off in full or, by means of an equal payment on each share, to paying them off in part.