EDF / 2019 Universal registration document

4. Corporate governance

Members and functioning of the Board of Directors

Activity of the Board of Directors in 2019 4.2.2.8

2019

2018

Number of meetings Average attendance rate

9*

12*

92.0%

91.7%

Average duration of the meetings

3 hours and 25 minutes

2 hours and 40 minutes

In addition to this number of meetings, a one-day strategic seminar is also held. *

The table below shows the individual attendance rate of Directors over the 2019 fiscal year:

Directors whose terms of office are ongoing on 31 December 2019

Average attendance rate in 2019

Jean-Bernard Lévy

100%

Véronique Bédague-Hamilius  (1)

n/a

Claire Bordenave  (2)

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Jacky Chorin

Bruno Crémel  (3)

François Delattre  (4) Gilles Denoyel  (3) Karine Granger  (2)

Marie-Christine Lepetit

Colette Lewiner Laurence Parisot

75%

83.3% 100%

Claire Pedini

Philippe Petitcolin  (3) Jean-Paul Rignac Vincent Rodet  (2) Michèle Rousseau

75%

100% 100% 91.7% 100% 91.7%

Christian Taxil

Martin Vial

Director co-opted at the last meeting of the Board of Directors held in 2019. (1) Directors who took office on 23 November 2019. (2) Directors who took office following the Shareholders’ Meeting of 16 May 2019. (3) Director since 28 June 2019. (4)

In 2019, the Board of Directors examined and/or authorised, in addition to the many matters regarding the Company’s day-to-day business, issues such as the final investment decisions on offshore wind turbine projects in Saint Nazaire

organised in 2019, the Group’s 2018 health and safety review, EDF’s equal access to employment and equal pay policy, and the objectives the Group set itself in

terms of the proportion of women in governing bodies (see in particular (France) and Neart na Gaoithe (Scotland), the progress of the Hinkley Point C and section 3.3.3.1.5 “Diversity and inclusion, Equal access to employment for women Flamanville 3 projects, as well as the findings of the review conducted by and men”) and the 2018 reports by the French inspector general for nuclear safety Jean-Martin Folz of the Flamanville EPR project, new nuclear prospects in France and radiation protection and the inspector for hydropower safety.

and the United Kingdom, the settlement agreement for compensation of EDF by the French State regarding the early closure of the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, the progress of the Linky programme implemented by Enedis and the “Grand Carénage” project, the project for the construction by Edison of a high-efficiency combined cycle gas power plant in Presenzano (Italy), and the planned disposal of Edison’s exploration and production activity, the employee-only share offering

At its annual strategic seminar, the Board debated the objective of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, the prospects of changing electrical generation technology costs, the strategy of EDF’s European counterparts, the challenges faced by EDF due to the changing legislative and regulatory environment and regulation of existing nuclear facilities.

228

EDF | Universal registration document 2019

www.edf.fr