Taking part in the general meeting
How to take part in the general meeting in 2022?HOW TO TAKE PART IN THE GENERAL MEETING IN 2022?
1. ATTENDING THE MEETING IN PERSON
If you wish to attend the General Meeting, you must request your admission card. Quick and easy, you can make this request online and now download your card directly on your computer and print it (see below paragraph A – Voting by Internet – Step 2). This request may also be submitted using the paper form (see below paragraph B – Voting by mail).
In all cases, this card must be presented at the reception on the day of the Meeting.
If you wish to attend the General Meeting by having previously voted or given power to the President, you can request an access card. You can now receive this document electronically by indicating your email address when you apply for your card online (see below paragraph A – Voting by Internet – Step 2).
2. VOTING ON THE RESOLUTIONS BY INTERNET OR BY MAIL
Air Liquide invites you to vote by Internet or by mail using the voting form, before the General Meeting.
If you decide to vote on each of the resolutions, you have three options:
- vote FOR the resolution: this is the default choice and in this case you are not required to tick any box, your FOR vote is automatically registered;
- vote AGAINST the resolution by ticking the corresponding box;
- you may ABSTAIN by ticking the corresponding box: your shares are counted in the Meeting’s overall quorum. However, your abstention is not taken into account in the calculation to decide whether to adopt or reject the resolution.
Furthermore, you must not return your paper voting form if you decide to vote by Internet, and vice versa.
A. VOTING BY INTERNET
DIGITAL
Air Liquide offers you the possibility of voting by Internet, before the General Meeting, using the Votaccess (1) platform that will be open from April 11, 2022 to May 3, 2022 at 3:00 p.m., Paris time. In order to avoid potential congestion of the Votaccess platform, Shareholders are recommended not to wait until the eve of the General Meeting to input their instructions.
STEP 1
LOG IN
You are a REGISTERED Shareholder
1 Visit the Company’s website at www.airliquide.com and click on “Access your Shareholder Portal”, under the “Investors” section.
2 Once you have reached your personalized homepage, click on the “Vote or participate in the AGM” button.
By clicking on “More information” you can access useful documentation for voting.
You are a BEARER Shareholder
Log in to the Internet portal of the account-holding institution managing the shares and which will indicate to holders of bearer shares which voting systems that institution makes available to the Shareholders whose securities accounts it maintains (Votaccess voting system or other electronic and standardized voting systems).
STEP 2
SELECT YOUR VOTING INSTRUCTIONS
Once logged in to the Votaccess platform, you can select your preferred method of participation by following the onscreen instructions:
- Give proxy to the chairman;
- Vote on the resolutions;
- Request an attendance card;
- Give proxy to a mentioned person (2).
If you would like to attend the General Meeting and vote on the day, you can request your admission card by clicking on “Request an attendance card”. You have two choices: download and print the attendance card OR request to receive the attendance card by mail to your home.
If you would like to attend the General Meeting by having previously voted or given power to the President, you can request an access card by clicking on “Request an access card”. You have two choices: request to receive the access card by mail to your home OR request to receive the access card by email, indicating your email address.
(1) Votaccess is a trademark registered by SLIB.
(2) Shareholders acting as proxy for other Shareholders and holding forms confirming their duties must also send these forms to Air Liquide by midnight on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at the latest, in order to be taken into account, it being specified that electronic proxies must reach the Company by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.