(Acknowledgement of the expiration of the terms of office of Auditex company and Mr Jean-Christophe Georghiou, Deputy Statutory Auditors)
The Shareholders, deliberating according to the quorum and majority required for Ordinary General Meetings, having read the Board of Directors’ Report, having duly noted that the terms of office as Deputy Statutory Auditors of Auditex and Mr Jean-Christophe Georghiou will expire at the end of this General Meeting, decide not to make provision for their replacement.
During the 2021 fiscal year, no new regulated agreement was submitted for the prior approval of the Board of Directors.
As provided by law, the Board of Directors carried out an annual review of agreements approved and concluded during previous fiscal years which continued to be applied during the year ended December 31, 2021.
In the 11th resolution, you are asked to take note that the Statutory Auditors’ Special Report on regulated agreements does not mention any new agreement.
The Special Report is included in chapter 6 of the 2021 Universal Registration Document.
(Statutory Auditors’ special report on agreements covered by the articles L. 225-38 et seq. of the French Commercial Code)
The Shareholders, deliberating according to the quorum and majority required for Ordinary General Meetings, duly note that the Statutory Auditors’ Special Report on the agreements covered by articles L. 225-38 et seq. of the French Commercial Code required by the legal and regulatory provisions in force has been submitted to them and that it makes no mention of any new agreement during the year ended December 31, 2021.
Pursuant to article L. 22-10-34-II of the French Commercial Code, Shareholders are asked in the 12th resolution to approve the fixed, variable and exceptional components of the total remuneration and other benefits paid in 2021 or awarded in respect of the 2021 fiscal year to Mr Benoît Potier. It is specified that no exceptional remuneration has been paid or awarded in 2021.
The components of remuneration are described in the Report on Corporate Governance included in chapter 3 of the 2021 Universal Registration Document and are summarized in the 2022 Invitation to the Annual General Meeting. They were paid or awarded in line with the remuneration policy approved by the General Meeting on May 4, 2021.
(Approval of the elements of remuneration paid during or awarded in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 to Mr Benoît Potier)
The Shareholders, deliberating according to the quorum and majority required for Ordinary General Meetings, approve, pursuant to article L. 22-10-34-II of the French Commercial Code, the fixed, variable and exceptional elements of the total remuneration and benefits of any kind paid during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, or awarded for the same fiscal year to Mr Benoît Potier, as presented in the Company's 2021 Universal Registration Document, in chapter 3 “Corporate governance”, in the section entitled “Remuneration of L’Air Liquide S.A. corporate officers,” in the paragraph headed “Elements of the total remuneration and benefits of any kind paid during or awarded in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, to Mr Benoît Potier and on which the General Meeting of May 4, 2022, is invited to vote.”
