Groupama // Universal Registration Document 2022

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Company information

Information that, were it to be made public, would be likely to have considerable influence on the price of the financial instruments concerned is information that could be used by reasonable investors as one of the foundations of their investment decisions (buy, sell or hold). WHAT INFORMATION OR EVENTS RELATING TO AN ISSUER OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS MAY BE CONSIDERED AS CONSTITUTING INSIDE INFORMATION? Examples include: earnings (or estimated earnings), and changes thereto that are higher or lower than announced forecasts; ❯ mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, joint ventures, disposals, or changes in assets, acquisitions of interest, major partnerships; ❯ major new products or changes involving customers or suppliers (such as the acquisition or loss of a customer or a major contract); ❯ major litigation, investigations, or proceedings conducted by the audit authorities; ❯ a one ‑ time event linked to the business, which may have a significant effect on earnings; ❯ events affecting the financial instruments of the issuer (failure to repay debt, early redemption, buyback programmes, division of par value or shares, modifications of dividends, changes to the rights of holders of financial instruments, public or private sales of additional financial instruments). ❯ This list is not exhaustive; other information may be considered as privileged depending on the circumstances. WHEN MAY INFORMATION BE CONSIDERED AS NOT PUBLIC? Information is not public when it has not been disclosed through, for example: an official press release, news service, or mass ‑ circulation daily newspaper; ❯ an official document filed with a control authority (such as the Registration Document filed with the AMF); ❯ (1) the Internet; ❯ documents sent to shareholders (annual report or information prospectus). ❯ Applicable rules Members of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and persons attending Board meetings may receive inside information about issuers of financial instruments admitted to a regulated market or other trading facility, for example, during the examination of a partnership, merger/acquisition or equity investment transaction.

(i) Compensation The compensation of the Independent Directors provided for in Article R. 322 ‑ 120 ‑ 3 of the French Insurance Code and, where applicable, of the non ‑ voting Directors is determined by the Board on the recommendation of the Compensation and Appointments Committee within the limits set by the General Meeting. The allowances granted to Directors representing member mutuals and to members of the Mutual Insurance Advisory Board are set by the Board of Directors within the limits set by the General Meeting. recommend to other persons that they acquire or dispose of, or have other persons acquire or dispose of, the financial instruments tied to that information or financial instruments to which those instruments are tied, based on the inside information. ❯ Issuers in which the Group holds a strategic investment are especially concerned. CONFIDENTIALITY Any member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and any person attending meetings of the Board of Directors holding, in the course of his or her duties, inside information relating to an issuer of the aforementioned financial instruments or to financial instruments of such an issuer is bound by a duty of confidentiality with respect to such information. They are forbidden to disclose this information outside the normal framework of their functions or for reasons other than those related to why the information was disclosed to them. If the person in question must divulge this information to other persons in the Group or third parties for the purpose of exercising their functions, he/she undertakes to do so only after having informed such persons or third parties that the information is confidential and that they are required to comply with the rules applicable to persons who have inside information. TRADING IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS As long as the inside information has not been made lawfully public, the member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and any person attending meetings of the Board of Directors holding inside information in the course of his/her duties about an issuer of financial instruments or a financial instrument admitted to a regulated market or a trading facility may not: use the inside information that he/she has, acquire or dispose of, or attempt to acquire or dispose of, on either his/ her own behalf or on behalf of others, directly or indirectly, the financial instruments tied to that information or any financial instruments to which those instruments are tied; ❯

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