Invitation to our General Meeting 2021

Additional information

Taking part in the General Meeting

Additional information

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

YOU WISH TO GRANT YOUR PROXY TO ANOTHER PERSON

You may revoke a proxy granted to your representative and name another person of your choice after your initial selection.

IMPORTANT: Proxy forms indicating a proxy holder (whether sent by post or email) must be received by the Company by midnight on Friday, April 30, 2021.

The proxy holder’s voting instructions (which must be sent by email to the following address: agm.backoffice@airliquide.com , using a scanned copy of the standard voting form) must be received by the Company by midnight on Friday, April 30, 2021.

Proxy forms received after this date, which indicate a proxy holder or the corresponding voting instructions, will not be taken into account.

N.B.: Financial service providers, eligible to act as intermediaries on behalf of shareholders who are not resident in France and benefiting from a general authorization to manage shares, may transfer or issue shareholders’ votes under their own name. Under article L. 228-3-2 of the French Commercial Code, they must reveal the identity of the final shareholder to the issuer.

SALE OF YOUR SHARE

You may sell all or part of your shares even if you have cast a vote or requested an admission card. In this case, for bearer shareholders, the institution responsible for managing your share account should inform Air Liquide so that the number of shares you hold on 00:00, Paris time, Friday 30 April, 2021 may be known.

ATTENDANCE FEES

In the current sanitary context and as an exception, no attendance fees will be paid to shareholders.

YOU WISH TO SUBMIT A WRITTEN QUESTION BEFORE THE MEETING 

Questions must be sent by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt to the Chairman at the Air Liquide head office, Air Liquide, Direction du Service actionnaires, 75, quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris, or by email at: general.meeting@airliquide.com. 

If you hold shares in bearer form, you must enclose proof of share ownership with your question

Questions must be sent to Air Liquide by midnight on Friday, April 30, 2021, at the latest. Responses to written questions will be published directly on www.airliquide.com, in the “Shareholders” section.

General meeting on the internet 

The entire General Meeting will be webcast live and available via playback(a), in French and in English, on the Company’s Internet site: www.airliquide.com

Combined General Meeting will be broadcast in sign language. 

For more detailed information on how to vote and participate at the General Meeting, please refer to the notice of meeting published in the French legal gazette (Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires - BALO) on March 24, 2021 and available on www.airliquide.com, in the “Shareholders” section.

TO OBTAIN THE PAPER VERSION OF THE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION

To obtain the paper version of the additional documentation (Universal Registration Document and Annual Report), return the application form enclosed at the end of this document or click on “Consult the documentation” in the Internet voting website.

In light of the public health context and pursuant to article 3 of Ordinance no. 2020-321 of March 25, 2020 adapting the rules for the holding and deliberations of general meetings and governing bodies of private law entities, whether with or without legal personality as a result of the covid-19 epidemic, any shareholder who has provided an email address will be sent the documents in electronic format.

CONTACT US

Directly through the website http://www.airliquide.com/shareholders/contact-us 

(a) Subject to any technical reasons which may prevent or seriously disrupt the webcast.