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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Management & Control Structure

2.2.1.3 Corporate Compliance – Code of Conduct and Ethics

2.2.1.4 Chief Risk and Compliance Officer The Chief Risk and Compliance Officer is appointed by the Managing Board, reports to the Chief Executive Officer and has a line of communication to the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board. This reporting ensures the necessary independence of the Compliance department activities. Compliance officers are located in countries where Euronext conducts its activities and are supported as necessary by local legal staff in order to benefit from the local expertise and knowledge of the local business and environment.

Euronext is strongly committed to conducting its business with integrity, excellence and responsibility and to adhering to high standards of ethical conduct. The role of Corporate Compliance is to establish and maintain a first class compliance culture within the Company and to ensure that Euronext’s business approach is in line with the highest ethical standards. The Compliance department supports Euronext and its employees in complying with applicable laws and regulations and promotes ethical standards in accordance with good Corporate Governance. The Compliance department raises awareness among employees by articulating the responsibilities of the Company and its employees through policies and training and themonitoring of those policies and by providing a path for communication for employees. Compliance with applicable rules and principles and ethics is key to Euronext’s success and it is the obligation of every employee to support this effort. Euronext’s code of conduct and Ethics sets and reaffirms Euronext’s high standards of ethical conduct and reinforces its business ethics, policies and procedures. Compliance with the Code is required of all board members (Managing Board, Supervisory Board and any other board) and all employees including consultants, contractors and temporary employees. The code of conduct and Ethics, which is supplemented by nine corporate policies, governs without exception all business activities of the Company. More information on Euronext’s commitment to Ethics are provided in section 2.5.2 “Presentation of the business environment”. Compliance processes are established as follows:

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INTERNAL AUDIT – THIRD LINE OF DEFENSE

As a third line of defense, Internal Audit has no operational responsibilities over the entities/processes it reviews. The objectivity and organisational independence of the internal audit function is achieved through the Head of Internal Audit not performing operational management functions and reporting directly to the Chairman of the Audit Committee. He also has a dotted reporting line to the CEO. For each audit, a formal report is issued and circulated. This includes recommendations for corrective actions with an implementation plan and the comments of the auditees. Implementation of accepted corrective actions is systematically followed up, documented and reported to the Audit Committee. GENERAL INFORMATION No information on family relationships between members of the Supervisory Board, members of the Managing Board and senior staff, as well as on convictions in relation to fraudulent offences, bankruptcies, receiverships, liquidations or official public incriminations with regard to these persons has been included in this Registration Document, as these matters are to the best knowledge of Euronext not applicable to these persons. Further, to the best of Euronext’s knowledge, the members of the Supervisory Board and the Managing Board had no potential conflicts of interest in 2017 and up to and including the date of the publication of this Registration Document. Responsibilities for the Financial Statements In accordance with Article 5: 25c(2)(c) of the Dutch Financial Supervision Act ( Wet op het financieel toezicht ), the Managing Board of Euronext hereby declares that, to the best of its knowledge, (i) the Financial Statements prepared in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the European Union and with Part 9, Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of Euronext and the enterprises included in the consolidation as a whole, and (ii) the Registration Document gives a true and fair view of the position on the balance sheet date, the course of events during the financial year of Euronext and the enterprises included in the consolidation as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks that Euronext faces. 2.2.3 Statement of the Managing Board

COMPLIANCE RISK ASSESSMENT

Risk mitigation through policies and procedures

Staff training and awareness

Monitoring of policies and procedures

Dialogue with business

Guidelines and procedures are defined notably to ensure that anti- money laundering and sanctions, bribery and fraud and conflicts of interest concerns are managed and that business is always conducted in a fair manner. Staff training and awareness sessions are conducted regularly in all company locations to promote compliance and ethics standards. The Company protects anyone who reports an alleged breach of laws or company policies in good faith and ensures that they shall in no way be put at a disadvantage by the Company as a result of the report. Finally, given the dual positions of Euronext as amarket operator and a listed issuer on the Euronext markets, the Compliance department has imposed strict personal dealing rules and a conflicts of interest procedure to ensure that neither the staff nor the Company itself could take undue benefits from this situation.

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