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2012 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND RELATED NOTES- cancel shares, in accordance with the authorisation granted by the Extraordinary General Meeting ofshareholders of 4 May 2011.During the financial year ended 31 December 2012 and pursuant to this authorisation:- M6 bought back for future cancellation 500,000 of its own shares, representing 0.4% of the sharecapital, at a total cost of €4.9 million. All these shares were cancelled to reduce the number of sharesmaking up the share capital from 126,383,964 to 125,883,964 shares;- Transactions were carried out by M6 as part of the liquidity contract:- M6 bought and delivered shares to cover free share allocation plans.Within the scope of the next free share plans in 2013, Métropole Télévision entered into a forwardtreasury share purchase contracts in relation to 330,000 shares, maturing on 26 July 2013.Furthermore, even though it has been granted authorisations by the Shareholders’ General Meeting toproceed in specified cases with share capital increases (through the issue of ordinary shares and / ormarketable securities providing access to the share capital), the Company currently has no plans to issuenew shares, aside from the exercise of share subscription options.The Company also comes within the scope of Article 39 of the Law no 86-1067 of 30 September 1986as amended, as well as Law no 2001-624 of 17 July 2001, which state that an individual or entity, actingalone or in concert, shall not hold, directly or indirectly, more than 49% of the capital or voting rights of acompany licensed to operate a nationwide television service by terrestrial transmission. Therefore, anydecision liable to have a dilutive or enhancing effect on existing shareholders must be assessed in thelight of this specific legal requirement.24.2. Shares comprising Métropole Télévision’s capital(thousands of shares)Ordinary sharesTreasury sharesissuedheldSharesoutstandingAt 1 January 2011 128,958 460 128,498Exercised stock options 4 -Movement in treasury shares:- held for the purpose of allocating free shares (352)- held as part of the liquidity contract 39Implementation of the share buyback programme (before cancellationof shares)(2,578) -At 31 December 2011 126,384 147 126,237Exercised stock options - -Movement in treasury shares:- held for the purpose of allocating free shares 518- held as part of the liquidity contract (12)Implementation of the share buyback programme (before cancellationof shares)(500) -At 31 December 2012 125,884 653 125,231The shares making up the capital of Métropole Télévision are all ordinary shares with one vote each. Allshares are fully paid up.Three share subscription plans and five free share allocation plans for the benefit of management andsenior executives were in place at 31 December 2012 (see Note 9).200 - M6 GROUP - 2012 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT