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2012 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 255
GENERAL PRESENTATION OF SCHNEIDER ELECTRICSA
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CAPITAL
Identifiable holders of bearer shares
(article7 paragraph3 of the articles of association)
The Company may at any time request Euroclear to identify holders of bearer securities conferring immediate or future voting rights. This
provision was adopted by the Combined Annual and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings of June30, 1988 and May5, 2000.
Sale of shares (article8 of the articles of association)
The Company’s shares are transferable and negotiable.
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3. Capital
Share capital and voting rights
The Company’s share capital at December31, 2012 amounted to EUR2,221,668,056, consisting of 555,417,014shares with a par value of
EUR4, all fully paid up. 600,506,571voting rights were attached to the 555,417,014 outstanding shares as at December31, 2012.
Potential capital
At December31, 2012, the potential capital consisted of:
•stock option plans25 to31 represented 4,810,944shares;
•1,575 ,526 shares for share subscription or purchase plans,
plans 32 and 33; the type of options (share subscription or
purchase options) will be determined at a later date by the
Management Board;
•4,872,550shares under the performance shares or stock grant
plans (plans 6 and 9 to 14 ter) relating to shares to be issued
and to existing shares or shares to be issued whose type will be
determined later;
•in addition, as part of issues of new shares restricted to
employees, the Company has issued 54,256share subscription
warrants;
together, these plans represent a total of 11,313 ,276shares.
The potential maximum dilution in case of issue of all the shares
as a result of the exercise of options to subscribe, stock grants,
performance shares and warrants would be 2.03% of share capital
at December31, 2012.