2012 Registration document and annual financial report - BNP Paribas

INFORMATION ON THE PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTSNotes to the parent company financial statements6Resolutions adopted at Shareholders’ General Meetings Use of authorisation in 2012Shareholders’ GeneralMeeting of 23 May 2012(19 th resolution)Shareholders’ GeneralMeeting of 23 May 2012(20 th resolution)Shareholders’ GeneralMeeting of 23 May 2012(21 st resolution)Blanket limit on authorisations to issue shares with or without pre-emptiverights for existing shareholders.The maximum par value of all issues made with or without pre-emptiverights for existing shareholders by virtue of the authorisations grantedunder the 13 th to 16 th resolutions of the present Shareholders’ GeneralMeeting may not exceed EUR 1 billion for shares issued immediately and/or in the future and EUR 10 billion for debt instruments .Authorisation granted to the Board of Directors to carry out transactionsreserved for members of the BNP Paribas Group’s Corporate Savings Planin the form of new share issues and/or sales of reserved shares.Authorisation was given to increase the share capital within the limit of amaximum par value of EUR 46 million on one or more occasions by issuingordinary shares, with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders waived,reserved for members of the BNP Paribas Group’s Corporate Savings Plan.This authorisation was granted for a period of 26 months and replacesthat given by the 19 th resolution of the Shareholders’ General Meeting of12 May 2010 .Authorisation granted to the Board of Directors to reduce the share capitalby cancelling shares.Authorisation was given to cancel, on one or more occasions, through areduction in the share capital, all or some of the shares that BNP Paribasholds and that it may come to hold, provided that the number of sharescancelled in any 24-month period does not exceed 10% of the total numberof shares at the operation date.Full powers were delegated to complete the capital reduction and deductthe difference between the purchase cost of the cancelled shares andtheir par value from additional paid-in capital and reserves available fordistribution, including from the legal reserve in respect of up to 10% of thecapital cancelled.This authorisation was granted for a period of 18 months and replacesthat given by the 17 th resolution of the Shareholders’ General Meeting of11 May 2011 .Not applicableThis authorisation wasnot used during the period12, 034, 091 shares with apar value of EUR 2were cancelledon 14 December 201262012 Registration document and annual financial report - BNP PARIBAS 363