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Annual report 2009 - Dexia.com

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Corporate governanceManagement <strong>report</strong>Consolidatedfinancial statementsCircular FMI/2007-02 from theBanking, Finance and InsuranceCommissionA Royal Decree of 14 November 2007 concerning the obligationsof issuers of financial instruments listed for trading on aBelgian regulated market stipulates the obligations of issuerswith regard to the information to be provided to the publicand their obligations to holders of financial instruments. InDecember 2007, the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commissionpublished a circular explaining this Royal Decree. Inaccordance with this regulation, <strong>Dexia</strong> SA has decided since2003 to use its internet site to meet its obligations to publishthe information stipulated by the decree and the circular.In making this choice, <strong>Dexia</strong> SA made a <strong>com</strong>mitment to meetseveral conditions, particularly the creation of a distinct sectionon the website reserved for the financial information stipulatedin the circular.Maximum use of the website for the <strong>com</strong>munication ofthe mandatory financial information is one <strong>com</strong>ponent of<strong>Dexia</strong>’s policy to ensure transparency for its shareholders andinstitutional investors. The information required by CircularFMI/2007-02 from the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commissioncan be found under the heading “Legal information”on the <strong>Dexia</strong> website. This same policy of transparency forshareholders and institutional investors is also found in theCorporate Governance Charter of <strong>Dexia</strong> SA.Compliance with current legislationsAs a <strong>com</strong>pany under Belgian law, whose shares are listed fortrading in Belgium, France and Luxembourg, <strong>Dexia</strong> ensures<strong>com</strong>pliance with the principle of equality among shareholdersand respect for its legal and regulatory obligations to providespecific and periodic information.Management ofthe <strong>Dexia</strong> GroupThe Board of Directors of <strong>Dexia</strong> SAMembers of the Board of Directors(as at 31 December <strong>2009</strong>) (1)The articles of association of <strong>Dexia</strong> SA stipulate that the Boardis <strong>com</strong>posed of between sixteen and twenty directors.As at 31 December <strong>2009</strong>, the Board of Directors was <strong>com</strong>posedof seventeen members and two observers.Its <strong>com</strong>position also respects the French and Belgian statutorynature of <strong>Dexia</strong> SA. Indeed, the Board has as many Belgianmembers as it has French members and each nationalityrepresents at least one third of the Board.(1) Article 2 of the law of 6 August 1931 (Belgian Gazette of 14 August 1931)forbids ministers, former ministers and State Ministers, as well as members orformer members of Legislative Assemblies to mention their status as such inacts and publications of profit-making <strong>com</strong>panies.<strong>Annual</strong> financial statementsNAMEJEAN-LUCDEHAENEIndependentdirector69 years oldBelgianDirector since2008Holds 700 <strong>Dexia</strong>sharesSPECIALISTCOMMITTEESChairman of theAppointment andCompensationCommitteeChairman of theStrategy CommitteeBEGINNINGAND ENDOF CURRENTMANDATEPRIMARYFUNCTION2008-2013 Chairman of theBoard of Directors,<strong>Dexia</strong> SAOTHER MANDATES AND FUNCTIONSMember of the European ParliamentVice-Chairman of the Board of Directors:• Fondation Roi BaudouinDirector:• Inbev• Lotus Bakeries• Umicore• Trombogenics• NovovilAdditional informationOther functions in the <strong>Dexia</strong> Group:• Chairman of the Board of Directors of <strong>Dexia</strong>Crédit Local• Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of<strong>Dexia</strong> Bank Belgium• Director of <strong>Dexia</strong> Banque Internationale àLuxembourgBIOGRAPHYDoctor of Law from the University of Namur and the K.U. Leuven.He started his professional activities as Association Secretary to the Flanders’ Scouting Federation (Vlaams Verbond van KatholiekeScouts) and became in 1965 member of the Research Department of the Christian Workers’ Union (ACW).He started his political career in 1967, occupying several parliamentary and governmental functions at federal and European level.18<strong>Dexia</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>report</strong> <strong>2009</strong>

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