Articles of Association of Unilever N.V.

Section VI
Representation
Article 24
24.1 The Board of Directors shall represent the Company.
24.2 The Company shall also be represented by the Group Chief Executive (if appointed) as
well as by two other Executive Directors acting jointly. In addition, except in the case
of representation by virtue of a special power of attorney and in the cases mentioned
in paragraph 5 of this Article and in Article 9, paragraph 5, the Company shall be
represented either by an Executive Director together with a Secretary or an attorney or
by two Secretaries or by one Secretary together with an attorney or by two attorneys,
in the last case subject to the limitations imposed upon the powers of any such
attorneys on or after their appointment.
The Board of Directors shall have the power, without prejudice to its responsibility, to
cause the Company to be represented by one or more attorneys. These attorneys shall
have such powers as shall be assigned to them on or after their appointment and in
conformity with these Articles of Association, by the Board of Directors.
The Non-Executive Directors have no power to represent the Company.
24.3 The signing of mantles of share certificates, extracts from the register referred to in
Article 11 hereof and notes issued by the Company may be effected by stamping
or printing in facsimile the signatures of those who are authorised by virtue of these
Articles of Association to represent the Company for such purpose.
24.4 A document which persons, solely or jointly empowered to represent the Company in
pursuance of paragraph 2 hereof, have signed as a certified true copy of or extract from
the minutes of a General Meeting, of a meeting of holders of a class of shares or of a
meeting of the Board of Directors shall as between the Company and third parties be
proof of a valid resolution by such meetings in accordance with the contents of such
copy or extract.
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