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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Bodies created by Executive Management

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BODIES CREATED BY EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are assisted by an Executive Committee which includes representatives of all the Group’s lines of business. This Committee is a body that makes decisions on, considers and discusses the Group’s operational and strategic issues. It examines all the Group’s significant underlying and current issues, tracks the operating objectives and results and contributes to the management and forecasting of the EDF group’s major challenges. It reviews and authorises significant projects, specifically the Group’s investment or disinvestment projects for amounts which exceed certain thresholds. The Executive Committee meets in principle each week.

In order to reinforce the examination and follow-up of projects, an Executive Committee Commitments Committee examines in-depth the most significant projects in terms of level of commitments or risks incurred before the Executive Committee makes its decision. No investment project by the Company may be submitted for review by the Board of Directors without having first been approved by this Committee. On the date of filing of this Reference Document, the Executive Committee had thirteen members and a Secretary. The list of members and their personal information appear below.

4.3.1

MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

On the filing date of this Reference Document, the members of the Executive Committee were as follows:

Names

Position

Jean-Bernard Lévy Marc Benayoun

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Group Senior Executive Vice-President,Gas and Italy, Chief Executive Officer of Edison

Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Renewable Energies, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF Énergies Nouvelles

Antoine Cahuzac Christophe Carval

Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Human Resources Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Group Finance

Xavier Girre

Véronique Lacour Henri Lafontaine

Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Transformation and Operational Effectiveness Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Customers, Services and Regional Action

Marianne Laigneau Group Senior Executive Vice-President, International Division (1) Cédric Lewandowski Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Innovation, Strategy and Planning (2) Dominique Minière Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Nuclear and Thermal Simone Rossi Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Chief Executive Officer of EDF Energy (3) Pierre Todorov Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Group General Secretary Xavier Ursat Group Senior Executive Vice-President, New Nuclear Projects and Engineering

Marianne Laigneau replaced Simone Rossi, effective 17 July 2017. (1) Cédric Lewandowski replaced Philippe Torrion effective 17 July 2017. (2) Simone Rossi replaced Vincent de Rivaz, effective 1 November 2017 (3)

Alexandre Perra, Executive coordinator to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Government Relations, is Secretary of the Executive Committee.

4.3.2 Marc Benayoun , 51 years old, a graduate of the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), began his career at Paribas Group in 1989, before joining the Boston Consulting Group in 1993. He became Partner and Managing Director at the Paris office in 2001 then at the Moscow office in 2008 and during this period held a range of responsibilities, including the development of skills in the natural gas sector. In 2009, he joined the EDF Group as Economics, Tariffs and Prices Director. In 2012, he became Director of the B2B Market within the Trading Division with responsibility for electricity, gas and service sales. In this role, he supervised the project linked to the end of regulated electricity tariffs for businesses and local authorities (more than 400,000 sites in all, 120TWh of electrical consumption), with the objective of regaining a leading position in a competitive environment. He is Director of EDF Trading, a member of the Supervisory Board of Trimet France, Chairman of Transalpina di Energia, Chief Executive Officer of Edison, 3 rd largest energy company in Italy, which controls most of the Group assets in Italy, Chairman of Fondazione Edison and Director of Fenice. Since 2016, he is the Group Senior Executive Vice-President with responsibility for Gas and Italy. Antoine Cahuzac, 63 years old, a graduate of the École Polytechnique and École de la Météorologie Nationale. After a first engineering position at the Ministry for Transport, Antoine Cahuzac joined EDF’s Study and Research Department in 1982. In 1985, he joined the swaps department at Crédit Commercial de France (CCF), before becoming its manager in 1988. After spending three years at Vinci, where he was chief advisor to the Company’s CEO, he returned to CCF in 1994 where he held a range of successive positions at CCF’s Investment Bank then HSBC from 2000 at the same time as being, for many years, joint manager of the Energy and Utility sector for the HSBC group. Before returning to France in 2008 to monitor MSEs for

PERSONAL INFORMATION ON MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC France, he was based in Dubai, for nearly three years, to monitor the MENAT region for the Investment Bank. From May 2011, he managed HSBC’s private banking activities in France. He was also a member of HSBC France’s Management Board for a number of years. In 2012, Antoine Cahuzac became Chief Executive Officer of EDF Énergies Nouvelles, then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2017. He has also held the position of Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Renewable Energies since March 2015. He is a Director of EDF Luminus and EDF Trading as well as the Renewable Energies Syndicate and the French Electricity Union. Christophe Carval, 57 years old, holds a degree in electrical engineering from HEI Lille, and joined the EDF group in 1982. He has held several management positions in Departmental, Regional and Inter-regional Units in the electricity and gas distribution sector. In 2007, he was appointed to head up the project to create and the manage the new Shared Services Division of the EDF Group. He was the Director of Human Resources, Health & Safety and the Enedis Transformation project from 2014. Since July 2017, he holds the position of Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Human Resources Division. Xavier Girre, 49 years old, graduated HEC, is the holder of a Masters in business law, a graduate of Institut d'Etudes Politique of Paris (IEP) and is ENA alumni. Xavier Girre began his career at the French National Audit Office in 1995, before joining the Veolia Environnement group in 1999 where he spent twelve years and notably held the positions of Group Risk and Auditing Director of Veolia Group, Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Finance of Veolia Transportation then of Veolia Environmental Services. From 2011 to 2015, he was Deputy CEO, CFO of

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