2007 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

7 NRESOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATIONA ppendices – Social chapter< Contents >as a basis for performance evaluations. The agreement makes it easierto take into account challenges faced by women or related to familylife, such as organisation of training sessions and meetings, cover andbenefits during pregnancy, maternity and adoption leave, special leavefor employees whose spouse (regardless of whether he or she is a BNPemployee) has to relocate for his or her job.Finally, there was substantial dialogue within the European WorksCouncil and Group Works Council in 2007. Besides the annual meeting ofthe European Works Council, an additional meeting was held to presentthe impact of BNL’s consolidation within the Group. A meeting was alsoorganised by the Group Works Council on the topic of working for theGroup in France.127.3 NRE A ppendices – Social c hapter3NRE social indicators – Year ended 31 December 2007 Scope for 20071. Remuneration and benefits paid to each corporate officer during the financial yearSee the section of the Report under Corporate governance – Remuneration.2. Remuneration and benefits paid during the financial year to each corporate officer by controlled companiesas defined in article L. 233-13 of the French Commercial CodeSee the section of the Report under Corporate governance – Remuneration.3. List of all directorships and positions held during the financial year in any company by eachof the corporate officersSee the section of the Report under Corporate offi cers, module 1.4. Total number of employees including fixed-term contract employeesSee section 7.1 of the Report under Human resource development – Workforce development in line with the Group’sexpansion.The number of employees managed by the Group at 31 December 2007 was 162,687 full-time equivalent employees(FTEs), up 20,777 FTEs compared with 2006. In France, the number of employees managed by the Group rose to 64,080FTEs, including 39,651 for BNP Paribas SA, of which 180 were on fi xed-term contracts.The concept of cadre, loosely translated as “executive”, is specifi c to the French workplace and cannot be meaningfullytransposed at a global level. For information purposes only, therefore, the proportion of cadre to non-cadre (executive tonon-executive) staff employed by BNP Paribas SA has continued to increase steadily:35.7% in 200237.7% in 200339.7% in 200442.4% in 200544.6% in 200648.3% in 2007 France5. Number of new permanent and fixed-term contract employeesIn 2007, approximately 24,000 new employees were recruited worldwide on permanent contracts.The Group hired approximately 5,000 new employees on permanent contracts in France in 2007, up 6.5% on 2006.BNP Paribas SA added 3,574 new FTEs in mainland France: 1,574 men (44%) and 2,000 women (56%). Of the total,450 were on fi xed-term contracts (125 men and 325 women) and 150 were hired on permanent contracts following a fi xedtermcontract (34 men and 116 women).See section 7.2 of the Report under Recruitment processes for more extensive and detailed information on this topic.6. Recruitment difficultiesDespite a more competitive market context, BNP Paribas remains a very attractive employer among job seekers, with over200,000 unsolicited job applications received in 2007.In 2007, new hires were split evenly between young university graduates (20% with an associate’s or bachelor’s degree and30% with a master’s degree) and employees with some previous experience.Section 7.2 of the Report under Recruitment processes provides more extensive and detailed information on this topic.GroupGroupGroupGroupGroupGroup FranceSA mainlandGroup France45678910112542007 Registration document - BNP PARIBAS