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19

RelatedPartyTransactions

Agreements entered into in connectionwith the reorganization transactions

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Worldline

2016 Registration Document

Cooperation and License Agreements

19.1.2

Atos Trademark License Agreement

19.1.2.1

July

1, 2013 for a twelve-month term, renewable for successive

twelve-month periods, relating to certain trademarks owned by

Worldline Luxembourg SA, a subsidiary of the Company,

entered into a corporate trademark fees agreement (the “Atos

Trademark License Agreement”) with Atos SE, effective as of

fee equal to 0.7% of the Worldline Group’s annual revenue from

third parties.

Trademark License Agreement, Atos SE has granted Worldline

Luxembourg SA a non-exclusive right to use the Atos

Trademarks and the right to grant sub-licenses for Atos

Trademarks to any Worldline Group entity in return for a license

the Atos group (the “Atos Trademarks”). Pursuant to the Atos

granted by Worldline Luxembourg SA to the Worldline Group

companies.

“Atos”. As a result, the Atos Trademark License Agreement was

terminated, as were the sub-licenses to the Atos Trademarks

their names were or will be modified to remove the reference to

Upon the definitive listing of the Company’s shares on Euronext

Paris, the Group’s companies ceased to use the name “Atos” and

“Worldline” have been filed by Worldline Luxembourg SA.

The semi-figurative trademarks including the logos “Worldline,

an Atos company”, “Worldline, e-Payment services” and

Specific Agreements

19.1.2.2

Specific agreements have been put in place in certain

conducting their internal business relations.

with respect to the protection of data (including personal data)

resulting from access to or exchange or processing of the other

party’s data in connection with their existing collaboration with

one another for purposes of performing client agreements and

located in the same jurisdiction. For example, the Company’s

local subsidiary in Hong Kong entered into such a cooperation

agreement with the local Atos SE subsidiary in Hong Kong. The

agreement sets forth the rights and obligations of the parties

the processing of personal data. These agreements (Data

Processing Agreements) are entered into between certain local

subsidiaries of the Company and certain Atos SE subsidiaries

(such as applications software) and equipment (such as central

servers) owned by the local Atos SE subsidiary are used by the

local subsidiary of the Worldline Group. These agreements

relate, in particular, to cooperation agreements with respect to

geographic regions, such as Hong Kong, where the Company’s

local subsidiary shares premises, services, equipment or

software with the local Atos SE subsidiary. Certain resources

Biometrics Technology Licensing

19.1.2.3

Agreements

territories of the geographic area that Atos includes in its Central

and Eastern Europe Business Unit. Similarly, Atos ISS Austria

granted a non-exclusive license to Worldline Austria to use all of

Atos ISS Austria’s biometrics patents.

algorithms, libraries, methodologies, and software interfaces

relating to biometrics; and (ii) grant reciprocal, non-exclusive

licenses to each other and each party’s respective subsidiaries

to any improvement made to the shared technology in all

parties (i) mutually authorize each other to freely use and

improve shared technology composed of source code,

expiration of the relevant period. Pursuant to this agreement, the

Group entity, entered into a technology licensing agreement

effective retroactively as of July

1, 2013 for a term of five years,

renewable automatically for one-year periods unless terminated

by either party by providing three months’ notice prior to the

Atos IT Solutions and Services GmbH (“Atos ISS Austria”), an

Austrian subsidiary of Atos SE (outside the Worldline Group

perimeter) and Worldline Austria GmbH (“Worldline Austria”), a