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Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> S.A.Update of the 2011 registration document - A03MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> 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 <strong>Agricole</strong> 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 <strong>Agricole</strong> S.A. is also subject to the provisions of the <strong>Mo</strong>netary 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in particularArticles L.512-47 et seq., and those provisions of former Book V of the Rural Code which have notbeen repealed, and Act No. 88-50 of 18 January 1988 concerning the Reorganisation of the CaisseNationale de Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> as a Mutual Company.Prior to the Extraordinary General Meeting of 29 November 2001, the Company was called “CaisseNationale de Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong>”, abbreviated “C.N.C.A.”The Company was born of the transformation of the Caisse Nationale de Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong>, an“Établissement Public Industriel et Commercial”, following the merger of the Mutual Guarantee Fund ofthe Caisses Régionales de Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> 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 <strong>Agricole</strong> 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 <strong>Mo</strong>netary andFinance Code”) and by the amount of the share capital.ARTICLE 3 – OBJECTCrédit <strong>Agricole</strong> S.A. has for object to facilitate and promote the activities and development of theCaisses Régionales de Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> Mutuel and the Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> Group. In furtherance of thispurpose:1. Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> 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 <strong>Agricole</strong> 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