Questions & Answers

It is a privileged appointment where shareholders are able to meet our Executive Directors and vote on the resolutions that are submitted to them. Three kinds of Shareholders’ Meeting exist:

• Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting: this is held once a year, in the six months following the financial year closing. It allows the shareholders to approve the accounts of the past year, and, if any, the amount of the dividend proposed by the Board of directors. The Shareholders can also vote on the appointment of new administrators and on the current events of the Group.
• Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting: this is held when necessary, to deal with decisions such as changes to the company’s bylaws or capital.
• Combined Shareholders’ Meeting: this is held when both legal types of Meetings (ordinary and extraordinary) are held at the same moment.

The company is legally required to inform shareholders of the date of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at least 35 days before it takes place, by publishing advance notification in the French official bulletin of legal notices, the Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO).

This notice shall include the resolutions which will be put to a shareholder vote and information on how to take part in the Meeting.

A notice which sets out the agenda is sent to registered shareholders at least 15 days before the date of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, and is published at the same time in the BALO and in a French national newspaper.

Shareholders can also obtain documentation relating to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on request to the company, or by visiting the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting page or the Orange website.

All shareholders, regardless of the number of shares they hold, have the right to participate in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

The Orange 2024 Shareholders’ Meeting will be held online and on site, with shareholders if they would like to attend, at salle Pleyel, 252 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, on 22 May 2024 at 3:00 pm.

This meeting will also be broadcast live via the Orange website.

To attend the Orange Shareholders’ Meeting in person, the shareholder must request an admission card:

• By logging into their securities account to request an admission card online (bearer and registered shareholders)
• Or by returning to Uptevia the admission card request form received by post if they are a registered shareholder and have not subscribed to the e-notice service

All shareholders who hold at least one Orange share no later than 2 trading days of stock exchange prior to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting are entitled to vote. By voting, you are contributing to the important decisions of the Group.

Three types of vote are possible:

• In person on the day of the Shareholders’ Meeting if you are attending with an admission card
• Online

Orange offers a secure e-voting platform, VOTACCESS, which can be reached from your online account from Wednesday 27 April 2022 up until the day before the Shareholders’ Meeting at 3:00 pm (CET).

Find out more about e-voting

• By post

Shareholders can also return their ballot paper to Uptevia, Orange’s central clearing bank, once they have:
- voted on the resolutions
- granted powers to the Chairman
- granted proxy to another person

For registered shares: all you need to do is return your personalized ballot paper to Uptevia in the envelope provided with the meeting invitation.

For bearer shares: you can request your ballot paper from your financial intermediary and return it to them once completed. Your financial intermediary is responsible for sending this ballot paper to BNP Paribas Securities Services enclosing a certificate of participation.

Shareholders must return their ballot no later than the day before the Meeting at 3:00 pm (working day) with the certificate of participation.

Find out more about the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.

For each resolution a vote "for", "against" or "abstain" can be cast, or no vote.

From 2020 "abstention" votes are no longer counted as "against" votes and are excluded from the calculation of the voting result. From now on, only the votes "for" and the votes "against" are taken into account.

Reminder:

A resolution within the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting is approved as soon as it wins more than half of "for" votes.

A resolution within the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting is approved as soon as it wins more than two thirds of "for" votes.

Written questions

Shareholders can send their written questions no later than two working days before the Shareholders’ Meeting. The certificate of participation (provided by the financial intermediary) must be attached to the letter or email for holders of bearer shares.

You have two possibilities when sending your questions:

• by e-mail: assemblee.generale@orange.com
• by registered letter with recorded delivery:

Orange
A l'attention du Président du Conseil d'administration.
Questions écrites Assemblée générale
111 Quai du Président Roosevelt
CS 70222
92449 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex
France

The answers to all written questions will be published on the Orange website, as soon as possible at the end of the Combined Shareholders’ Meeting, and no later than five days after the end of the meeting.

Verbal questions

As part of our ongoing shareholder dialogue, shareholders present in the room will be able to ask their questions during the Q&A session. A system will also be put in place to allow our remote shareholders to ask their questions before and during the General Meeting.

By phone: 0800 05 10 10

By e-mail: assemblee.generale@orange.com