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21ADDITIONAL INFORMATION21.2. Constitutional documents and by-lawsWhen the person subject to a request made in accordancewith the above provisions has not providedthe information thereby requested within the legaland regulatory period or has provided informationthat is incomplete or incorrect with respect to itsquality or to the owners of the shares or to the quantityof shares held by each of them, the shares thatgive immediate or future access to the capital andfor which this person was registered are deprived ofvoting rights for any meeting of shareholders thattakes place until their identification is regularized,and the payment of the corresponding dividend isdeferred until this date.Moreover, in the event that the registered personintentionally ignores the above provisions, the courtin whose jurisdiction the Company has its registeredoffice may, on request from the Company or fromone or more shareholders holding at least 5% of thecapital, decide the total or partial deprivation, for atime period not exceeding five years, of the votingrights attached to the shares that have been subjectto the request for information and if need be, for thesame period, of the corresponding dividend.Besides the thresholds foreseen by the legal andregulatory provisions in force, any natural or legalperson acting alone or in concert who directly orindirectly holds or ceases to hold a fraction — ofthe capital, of voting rights or shares giving futureaccess to the capital of the Company — equal toor greater than 1.5 % or a multiple of this fraction,must notify the Company by registered letter withacknowledgement of receipt within a fifteen day periodfrom the date this threshold is exceeded, specifyingtheir identity as well as that of the personsacting in concert with them, and the total numberof shares, voting rights and shares that give futureaccess to the capital, that they own alone, directlyor indirectly or in concert.The intermediary who is registered as the shareholderin accordance with the third paragraph of articleL. 228-1 of the Commercial Code must make thedeclarations specified in this article for all shares forwhich he is registered, without prejudice to the obligationsof shareholders.Failure to comply with this requirement shall be penalizedin accordance with article L. 228-3-3 of theCommercial Code.As at December 1, 2010, the company FranklinResources Inc. has declared to the Company that,for itself and its affiliates, it has exceeded the 1.50 %threshold for voting rights and that as at November29, 2010 it held shares in the capital and voting rightsrespectively equal to 2.3953 % of the Company’sshare capital and 1.5024 % of its voting rights.21.2.8. Conditions governing changes to the sharecapitalThe share capital can be increased, reduced or amortizedin accordance with the laws and regulationsin force.Failure to comply with the preceding provisions ispenalized by the deprivation of voting rights forshares exceeding the fraction which should havebeen declared, for any Meeting of the shareholderstaking place up to the expiry of a two year periodfollowing the regularization date of the notificationspecified above, if the application of this penalty isrequested by one or more shareholders holding atleast 1.5 % of the share capital or voting rights of theCompany. This request is recorded in the minutes ofthe General Meeting.2010 registration document VICAT 195