Different shareholding methods
You have the choice between several methods for holding your Europlasma shares.
"Bearer", your securities are registered with the financial intermediary of your choice. This system which allows you to group thogether all the securities in your portfolio within the same account, does not enable Europlasma to identify you.
"Registered", your securities are registered with Europlasma. You are therefore known by name and registered with the company, which enables you to benefit from a more personalised service.
There are two methods for registration:
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Directly registered: your shares are registered and kept in your name within Europlasma's record. The company delegates the management of this to Caceis Corporate Trust.
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Administered registered: your shares are registered with a financial establishment which assures the management of your securities account and remains your main point of contact. In order for your shares to be registered, your custodian account holder will inform the Caceis Corporate Trust of any changes which will affect your assets and/or your contact details. You are therefore known to the company.
The rules referred to above apply to all holders of transferable securities whether they are French nationals or from abroad. A person residing abroad must therefore ask the company or a qualified intermediary to register his securities in his name.
In order that the vote expressed for the securities concerned may be taken into account, the intermediary needs to declare itself as the "registered intermediary" when any accounts are opened, by disclosing its capacity as the intermediary holding securities on behalf of others.
Features of different shareholding methods
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Directly registered
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Administered registered |
Bearer |
| Location of shares |
Caceis Corporate Trust |
Your financial intermediary |
| Safekeeping and management fees |
Free of safekeeping and general management fees
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Variable according to the rates of your financial intermediary
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| Information about Europlasma |
You will receive all the documents that the company sends to its individual shareholders
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Sending out documents does not happen automatically (need to be requested)
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| Convening the General Meeting |
The notice of meeting is automatically sent to you by letter |
You need to contact your financial intermediary
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| Admission to the General Meeting |
On presentation of your admission card or identity card
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On presentation of your admission card or attendance certificate
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| Stock exchange order |
To send to the Caceis Corporate Trust |
To send to your financail intermediary |
| Registering in a PEP (Personal Equity Plan) |
Strongly discouraged due to overly complex regulation |
Possible |
Yes |
Advantages and disadvantages of different shareholding methods
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Directly registered |
Adminitered registered |
Bearer |
| Free of general managment fees |
yes
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no
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no
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Receipt of General Meeting convening notices and prepartory documents by post
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yes
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yes
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no
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| Registration of securities in a PEP |
no
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yes
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no
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| Double voting rights (article 12 of the Articles of Association) |
yes
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yes
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no
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| Single portfolio |
no
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yes
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yes
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How to transfer your shares to registered
The shareholder is known by the company and benefits from personalised services.
Directly registered: simply send the application form for transferring securities to your financial intermediary, duly completed and signed. Your financial intermediary will do what is necessary with the Caceis Corporate Trust (14 rue Rouget de Lisle - 92189 Issy les Moulineaux).
On receipt of your shares, the Caceis Corporate Trust, a company appointed by Europlasma to manage the registered accounts, will send you the registration certificate for the corresponding account. The Caceis Corporate Trust will therefore become your sole point of contact for your Europlasma securities.
A purchase/sale advice will also be sent to you after each transaction carried out on your accont. On 31 December of each year, the Caceis Corporate Trust will send you a statement of account of your securities. The fees incurred for the transfer of securities are determined by your financial intermediary. You must therefore refer to the commissions scale applied by them.
To find out the period of time necessary for the transfer of your securities, contact you fiancial intermediary. Registration to a registered account will only be definitive following the effective transfer of your securities by this financial intermediary.
Administered registered: the shares, held and managed by the shareholder's financial intermediary, are also registered with the company's securities service (methods particularly recommended where a PEP is held). Registration of these shares to administered registered does not require the securities to be transferred, or the banking institution to be changed. Your administered registered securities account is therefore managed by the financial institution of your choice.
Your bank manager must complete a registration application (BRN: registered reference note) with Europlasma's trustee, i.e. the Caceis Corporate Trust, and will maintain the management of your securities account.
The Caceis Corporate Trust shall proceed with the registration of your securities to adminitered registered, free of charge, on receipt of the application by your financial intermediary.
Shares held in a PEP may be registered ad administered registered.
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