HOW TO TAKE PART IN THE GENERAL MEETING IN 2023?
1. ATTENDING THE MEETING IN PERSON
- If you wish to attend the General Meeting without first having voted or given power to the Chairman of 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, your admission card must be presented on the day of the Meeting. - If you wish to attend the General Meeting having previously voted or given power to the Chairman, you can request a card mentioning “Shareholder having already voted”. You can now receive this card(1) electronically by indicating your email address when submitting your online request (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
Air Liquide offers you the possibility of voting by Internet, before the General Meeting, using the Votaccess (2) platform that will be open from April 4, 2023 to May 2, 2023 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 will have access to the General Meeting page on www.airliquide.com and related documents.
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 admission card;
- Give proxy to a mentioned person(3).
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 admission card”. You have two choices: download (and possibly print) the admission card OR request to receive it by mail to your home.
If you would like to attend the General Meeting having previously voted or given power to the Chairman, you can request a card mentioning “Shareholder having already voted” by clicking on “Shareholder having already voted”. You have two choices: request to receive it by mail to your home OR by email, indicating your email address.
- You can also request it directly from the Shareholder Services Department via our online contact form to receive it by mail.
- Votaccess is a trademark registered by SLIB.
- Shareholders acting as proxy for other Shareholders and holding forms confirming their duties must also send these forms to Air Liquide by no later than midnight, Paris time, on Saturday, April 29, 2023, in order to be taken into account, it being specified that electronic proxies must reach the Company by 3:00 p.m., Paris time on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.