Company: SNY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001121404-25-000010
Chunk: 279

Company: Sanofi
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 279
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, we must publish a final notice in a newspaper authorized to publish legal announcements in the local administrative department (département) in which our Company is registered as well as in the BALO. Other issues In general, shareholders can only take action at shareholders’ meetings on matters listed on the agenda. As an exception to this rule, shareholders may take action with respect to the appointment and dismissal of directors even if this action has not been included on the agenda. Additional resolutions to be submitted for approval by the shareholders at the shareholders’ meeting may be proposed to the Board of Directors, for recommendation to the shareholders at any time from the publication of the preliminary notice in the BALO until twenty-five days prior to the general meeting and in any case no later than twenty days following the publication of the preliminary notice in the BALO by: • one or several shareholders together holding a specified percentage of shares; • a duly qualified association of shareholders who have held their shares in registered form for at least two years and who together hold at least 1% of our voting rights; or • the works council. Within the same period, the shareholders may also propose additional items (points) to be submitted and discussed during the shareholders’ meeting, without a shareholders’ vote. The shareholders must substantiate the reasons for their proposals of additional items. The resolutions and the list of items added to the agenda of the shareholders’ meeting must be promptly published on our website. The Board of Directors must submit the resolutions to a vote of the shareholders after having made a recommendation thereon. The Board of Directors may also comment on the items that are submitted to the shareholders’ meeting.

| 168 | SANOFIFORM 20-F2024 |

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| ITEM 10. Additional Information |

Following the date on which documents must be made available to the shareholders (including documents to be submitted to the shareholders’ meeting and resolutions proposed by the Board of Directors, which must be published on our website at least twenty-one days prior to the general meeting), shareholders may submit written questions to the Board of Directors relating to the agenda for the meeting until the fourth business day prior to the general meeting. The Board of Directors must respond to these questions during the meeting or may refer to a Q&A section located on our website in which the question submitted by a shareholder has already been answered. Attendance at shareholders’ meetings; proxies and votes by mail In general, all shareholders may participate in general meetings either in person or by proxy. Shareholders may vote in person, by proxy or by