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CONTENT 1 Group presentation 1.1. Group profile and strategy 1.2. Key figures 1.3. Business presentation 1.4. History 1.5. Property, plant and equipment 1.6. Risk factors 3 4 6 10 16 18 20 6 Information about the issuer 6.1. Information on the Company 6.2. Share capital 6.3. Shareholding AFR AFR AFR 181 182 184 187 189 190 191 6.4. Owned shares and share buy-back 6.5. Investor relations 6.6. Share information 2 Social and environmental responsibility 2.1. The BIC Sustainable Development Program 2.2. Environmental data 2.3. Societal information 2.4 Workforce information 25 27 32 41 47 7 Board of Directors’ report and proposed resolutions of the Shareholders’ Meeting of May 10, 2012 7.1. Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting 7.2. Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting 7.3. Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting 193 194 201 207 3 Corporate Governance 3.1. Mandates of the Directors and the Corporate Officers as of December 31, 2011 3.2. Senior Management compensation and employees’ interests in the issuer’s capital 3.3. Chairman’s report on the Board of Directors function and on the risk management and internal control procedures implemented by the Company AFR 3.4. Statutory Auditors’ report on the report prepared by the Chairman of the Board of Directors AFR 53 54 63 7.4. Statutory Auditors’ report on the reduction in capital by the cancellation of repurchased shares 7.5. Statutory Auditors’ report on the issuance of new ordinary shares and/or securities with maintenance of preferential subscription rights 7.6. Statutory Auditors’ report on the capital increase reserved for employees 208 209 210 72 82 8 Additional information 8.1. Documents on display 8.2. Annual information report 8.3. Person responsible 8.4. Statutory Auditors AFR AFR AFR 211 212 212 214 215 216 219 220 221 4 Comments on the year 4.1. Operations and consolidated results 4.2. Financial situation 4.4. Dividends 4.5. Investments 4.6. Prospects for 2012 and strategy AFR AFR 83 84 91 92 93 93 94 4.3. Management of currency and interest rate risks 8.5. Cross reference table required under European Commission Regulation n°809/2004 8.6. Cross reference table with the annual financial report 8.7. Cross reference table with the management report of the Board AFR 8.8. Cross reference table in accordance with the “CSR” draft decree CSR 5 Financial statements AFR 97 99 156 5.1. Consolidated financial statements 5.2. Statutory Auditors’ report on the consolidated financial statements 5.3. Statutory financial statements of SOCIÉTÉ BIC (French GAAP) 157 5.4. Statutory Auditors’ report on the financial statements 178 5.5. Statutory Auditors’ special report on regulated agreements and commitments with third parties 180 Elements of the Annual Financial Report are identified in the content using the symbol AFR Elements linked to the Corporate Social Responsibility are identified in the content using the symbol CSR

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