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Becoming a shareholder

Participants in the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting held at the
Palais des Congrès, Porte Maillot, Paris, on May 20, 2008.

To purchase EDF shares, you must place a buy order through a financial intermediary:
  • your bank,
  • an online broker,
  • BNP Paribas Securities Services to purchase EDF securities directly in a “pure registered” form. You can contact BNP Paribas Securities Services on the toll-free number 0800 85 85 85 from Monday to Friday between 8:45 and 18:00.

Placing a buy or sell order will incur broker’s fees set by the financial intermediary.

When you purchase shares, there are several forms of ownership:

  • bearer form,
  • administrated registered form,
  • pure registered form.

Different forms of ownership

  Bearer shares Administered registered shares Pure registered shares
Securities account holder Your financial intermediary BNP Paribas Securities Services(1)
Custodial and management fees You pay these based on the fees charged by your financial intermediary Free (paid by EDF)
Information You do not receive the information on the Group automatically You are known to EDF and you receive the documents published by EDF at your home address.
General Shareholders’ Meeting To participate in the General Shareholders’ Meeting, you must ask your financial intermediary for an admission card

BNP Paribas Securities Services sends you the documents enabling you to:

  • attend the General Shareholders’ Meeting
  • vote by mail, proxy or online
Annual tax return Your financial intermediary sends you a single tax statement regrouping all the transactions relating to your securities account BNP Paribas Securities Services sends you a single tax statement regrouping all the transactions concerning EDF shares.

(1) Securities services agent for EDF shares.

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