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Crédit Agricole S.A.Update of the 2011 registration document - A03MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.Crédit Agricole S.A.A French company (“société anonyme”) with a share capital of EUR 7,494,061,611Registered office: 12, Place des Etats-Unis (92127) MONTROUGE CedexRegistered with the Paris Trade and Company Registryunder number 784 608 416Updated version of 1 July 2012 integrally reproduced hereunderARTICLES OF ASSOCIATIONARTICLE 1 – FORMCrédit Agricole S.A. (the “Company”) is a French company (“société anonyme”) with a Board ofDirectors (“Conseil d’administration”) governed by ordinary corporate law, notably Book II of theFrench Commercial Code.Crédit Agricole S.A. is also subject to the provisions of the Monetary and Finance Code, in particularArticles L.512-47 et seq., and those provisions of former Book V of the Rural Code which have notbeen repealed, and Act No. 88-50 of 18 January 1988 concerning the Reorganisation of the CaisseNationale de Crédit Agricole as a Mutual Company.Prior to the Extraordinary General Meeting of 29 November 2001, the Company was called “CaisseNationale de Crédit Agricole”, abbreviated “C.N.C.A.”The Company was born of the transformation of the Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole, an“Établissement Public Industriel et Commercial”, following the merger of the Mutual Guarantee Fund ofthe Caisses Régionales de Crédit Agricole Mutuel (the Regional Banks); it continues to hold all of therights, obligations, guarantees and security interests of those legal entities prior to their transformation;it exercises all rights relating to mortgages granted in favour of the State.ARTICLE 2 – NAMEThe name of the Company is: Crédit Agricole S.A.In all deeds and documents of the Company that are intended for third parties, the corporate nameshall be immediately preceded or followed by the words “Société Anonyme” or the initials “S.A.”, “régiepar le livre deuxième du Code de commerce et par les dispositions du Code monétaire et financier”(“governed by Book II of the French Commercial Code and the provisions of the Monetary andFinance Code”) and by the amount of the share capital.ARTICLE 3 – OBJECTCrédit Agricole S.A. has for object to facilitate and promote the activities and development of theCaisses Régionales de Crédit Agricole Mutuel and the Crédit Agricole Group. In furtherance of thispurpose:1. Crédit Agricole S.A. operates as a central financial institution and ensures that the Group actsas a single financial unit in its dealings with third parties with the object of optimising the financialmanagement of funds and, in return, the allocation of the financial resources so collected.Crédit Agricole S.A. collects and manages the excess deposits and savings of the Regional Banks, aswell as savings collected by such Banks on its behalf.Page 207 sur 237