Worldline - Registration Document 2016

Additional Information Constitutive Documents and Bylaws

Shareholders’ Meeting, of one or more shareholders holding at least 2% of the Company’s share capital or voting rights. In the event of a failure to comply with the above provisions, the legal penalties for breach of the obligation to report crossing a legal threshold shall apply to thresholds provided for in the bylaws only upon the request, recorded in the minutes of the Subject to the above provisions, this obligation under the bylaws is governed by the same provisions as those governing the legal obligation, including with respect to shares deemed to be held.

provided or a breach of the above obligation by the person in question to the public and to the Company’s shareholders in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The Company reserves the right to report the information The same reporting obligation, with the same deadline and terms, applies each time the proportion of the share capital or voting rights held by a shareholder decreases to below any of the thresholds referred to above.

Financial Statements (articles 37, 38 and 39 of the Bylaws)

21.2.5

21.2.5.1

Legal Reserve

whose admission to such a market or trading facility will not occur in connection with such distribution, the shareholders have the right to choose between payment in cash and the delivery of such securities. reserves in kind in the form of assets or securities. In the event of the distribution of securities that are not listed on a regulated market or traded on an organized multilateral trading facility, or The General Shareholders’ Meeting may also decide, upon the proposal of the Board of Directors, to distribute any profit or

reserve fund whenever the amount in such fund is less than 10% of the share capital. Five percent of each fiscal year’s profit, after deduction of losses carried forward from previous years, if any, is allocated to a legal

21.2.5.2

Approval of Dividends

21.2.5.3

Control of the Issuer

The General Shareholders’ Meeting votes on the payment of dividends in accordance with articles L. 232-12 to L. 232-18 of the French Commercial Code. The General Shareholders’ Meeting may give shareholders the option to receive payment in cash or in new shares of the Company, pursuant to legal conditions.

effect of delaying, postponing or preventing a change of control of the Company. There are no provisions either in the Company’s Bylaws or in any internal charter or rules of procedure that could have the

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Worldline 2016 Registration Document