Universal Registration Document 2021

4 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND COMPENSATION CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

DIVERSITY POLICY WITHIN THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ITS COMMITTEES

AN INDEPENDENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS*

AN INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

A BALANCED BOARD*

89 % Independent 11 % Non-independent

46 % French Directors residing in France 36 % Foreign Directors 18 % French Directors resident abroad or with a highly international profile

56 % Men 44 % Women

* Pursuant to the French Commercial Code and the AFEP-MEDEF Corporate Governance Code, the Directors representing employees are not included in the percentage.

The Board of Directors is committed to promote diversity in its composition, with the understanding it will ensure both a good quality and creativity of discussions and decisions. In this regard, the Board of Directors has outlined a policy to achieve and maintain a balanced composition and to promote diversity in all its aspects. Each year, the Board of Directors examines its composition and the one of its committees to ensure that such balance is satisfactory, particularly in terms of diversity. Also, when examining the appointment of new Directors or the renewal of terms of office coming to expiration, the Board always seeks to maintain and, if needed, improve the diversity in its composition (including gender balance, nationalities and international dimension, experience, mix of skills). The Board of Directors is composed of 11 Directors, from which: 8 are independent; • 4 are women; • 4 are foreign Directors; • 7 are French Directors including one based in the US and another, the • Chairperson of the Board of Directors, with a highly international profile.

The Board of Directors also includes 2 Observers which are also shareholders and lenders of the Company, and which attend the Board’s meetings in an advisory capacity. As corroborated by the results of its self-assessment performed for 2021, the Board of Directors considered during its February 23, 2022 meeting that: its members’ skills cover a large panel of expertise in line with the • different businesses, challenges and long-term strategy of the Group; a majority of foreign Directors or highly international profiles are • present which reflects the geographic mix of the Group’s business; the Board and its committees are well-balanced between women and • men (44% of the Directors are women, including the Chairperson of the Board).

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