Company: SNY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001121404-25-000010
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Company: Sanofi
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
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ienne Lecorvaisier to be a financial expert based on her education and experience in corporate finance in various international banks and as Chief Financial Officer of Essilor and Air Liquide. Until May 2023, she was Executive Vice President, in charge of Sustainable Development, Public and International Affairs as well as the supervision of the Social Programs and the General Secretariat of Air Liquide Group. Ms. Lecorvaisier’s term of office as a member of the Board of Directors will expire at the close of the Annual General Meeting of April 30, 2025 and will not be renewed. The Board of Directors deemed Anne-Françoise Nesmes to be a financial expert based on her education and experience as a Chief Financial Officer of several listed companies: Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC, Merlin Entertainments PLC, and Smith + Nephew PLC. She was Chief Financial Officer of Smith + Nephew PLC until the end of 2024. The Board of Directors has determined that all five directors meet the independence criteria of US Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10A-3, although only Carole Ferrand, Clotilde Delbos, Fabienne Lecorvaisier and Anne-Françoise Nesmes meet the French AFEP-MEDEF Code criteria of independence applied by the Board of Directors for general corporate governance purposes (see Item 16G., below). Item 16B. Code of Ethics We have adopted a code of ethics (hereafter the "Code of Conduct"), as defined in Item 16B. of Form 20-F under the Exchange Act, containing specific rules relating to financial ethics. Our Code of Conduct applies to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and other officers performing similar functions, as designated from time to time. Our Code of Conduct was amended on December 16, 2024 and this amended version is available on our website at www.sanofi.com (information on our website is not incorporated by reference in this annual report). A copy of our Code of Conduct may also be obtained free of charge by addressing a written request to the attention of Individual Shareholder Relations at our headquarters in Paris. We will disclose any future amendments to the provisions of such financial Code of Conduct on our website. Item 16C. Principal Accountants’ Fees and Services The Audit Committee has adopted an Audit and Non-Audit Services Pre-Approval Policy that sets forth the procedures and the conditions pursuant to which services proposed to be performed by the statutory auditors may be pre