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CORPORATE GOUVERNANCE ORGANISATION OF THE SUPERVISORY BOARD

SITUATION AT 31 DECEMBER 2021 WITH REGARD TO THE INDEPENDENCE CRITERIA SET OUT ABOVE

3.4.6.2

3.4.6.2.1 Independence of the Supervisory Board

The proportion of independent members on the Supervisory Board has been one-third (i.e. four out of twelve members appointed by the General Meeting) since the criteria were introduced in 2009. In accordance with the provisions of the Afep-Medef Code, revised in January 2020 (Article 9.3), the members of the Board representing employees are not taken into account when calculating this proportion. On 31 December 2021, the CAG-CSR Committee examined the situation of each of its members in respect of the above criteria on a case-by-case basis, and deemed four of them to be “independent”: Mss Estelle Brachlianoff, Monique Cohen, Dominique Senequier and Mr Alexandre Viros.

This proportion is consistent with: the recommendations of the Afep-Medef Code (Article 9.3) for s controlled companies within the meaning of Article L. 233-3 of the French Commercial Code ( Code de commerce ); the Supervisory Board rules of procedure (Article 2.1.5.1). s This analysis is carried out each year on the basis of a questionnaire sent to all Supervisory Board members (see § 3.4.7.5) in which they are asked to make a sworn statement: in order to categorise Board members as independent under the s criteria set out above; to detail the business relationships with the Group during the year s and to confirm that these are not likely to create a potential conflict of interest. In particular, the Board identified no significant business relationships between its members and the Company.

The table below summarises the criteria satisfied for each member of the Supervisory Board:

Monique Cohen (Vice- Chairwoman)

Dominique Senequier (Vice- Chairwoman)

Pureza Cardoso (employee representative)

Éric de Seynes (Chairman)

Charles- Éric Bauer

Rémy Kroll (employee representative)

Dorothée Altmayer

Estelle Brachlianoff

Matthieu Dumas

Blaise Guerrand

Julie Guerrand

Olympia Guerrand

Renaud Momméja

Alexandre Viros

CRITERIA Criterion 1 Criterion 2 Criterion 3 Criterion 4 Criterion 5 Criterion 6 Criterion 7 Criterion 8 Criterion 9

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INDEPENDENT

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represents an independence criterion satisfied.

3.4.6.2.2 Independence of the CAG-CSR Committee The proportion of independent members on the CAG-CSR Committee is two-thirds (i.e. two out of three members), including its Chairwoman. This proportion is in line with the recommendations of the Afep-Medef Code, revised in January 2020 (Article 18.1).

3.4.6.2.3 Independence of the Audit and Risk Committee The proportion of independent members on the Audit and Risk Committee is 60% (i.e. three out of five members), including its Chairwoman. This proportion is slightly lower than the recommendation of the Afep-Medef Code, revised in January 2020 (Article 16.1). The Board considered however that it enabled the Committee to function properly. In its 2014 report, the HCGE considers “that an Audit Committee with, for example, three independent members out of five remains compliant with the spirit of the Code, provided that the Chairman is an independent member” , as is the case for this Company.

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