Patrick Kron

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, dear shareholders. It’s a bit after 03:00 p.m., and I’d like to open our session. I’d like to inform you that in line with legal requirements, the presentations that will be made in the context of this meeting will be filmed and broadcast on our website and the meeting will also be available as a replay. Alongside me here today, we have Alessandro Dazza, who is our CEO; Pierre Lebreuil, the CFO, the new CFO of the group whom we greet, and we’re very happy to have him with us here in this new post and to Emmanuelle Vaudoyer, whom you know, who is the Group General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors. And Ms. Annette Messemer also who is the lady Chair of the Appointments and Compensation Committee, she will be joining us a bit later on to present the items concerning corporate governance.

Also, we have in the room with us members of our Board of Directors whom i like to greet including Johannes Huth and Michael Ogrin, who will be introduced to you later on. Johannes Huth will hopefully, be [ indiscernible ] by you at this meeting to the Board and Michael Agrin is a candidate to be a Board member. And we also have Nadia Laadouli, who is a partner in Deloitte and Associated and Pierre Olivier Etienne, who is a partner in PriceCooper House — PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit representing the joint auditors.

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