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Crédit <strong>Agricole</strong> S.A.Update of the 2011 registration document - A03or part of the dividend payment, including payment of any Preferred Dividend or interim dividend,either in cash or in Shares to be issued, where the Shares awarded in this case are of the same classas the Shares that entitled the holder to the dividend, that is, in the form of either Ordinary Shares orPreferred Shares of the same class.ARTICLE 32 – REPURCHASES OF PREFERRED SHARES BY THE COMPANYA. Share buyback programme and public buyback offerHaving regard to Preferred Shares, and subject to prior approval by the General Meeting, the Board ofDirectors may, with the authority to further delegate such power pursuant to the applicable laws andregulations, and subject to prior approval by the Secretary General of the French Banking Commission(or any supervisory authority that may come to replace it) (the “SGCB”) buy back Preferred Sharesand/or Ordinary Shares and, if applicable, cancel such Shares, in the proportions that it shalldetermine, under the terms of (i) a Share buyback programme carried out under the terms andconditions stipulated by Articles L.225-209 et seq. of the French Commercial Code (or any equivalentregulations applicable as of the date of the relevant transaction) or (ii) any public buyback offer.B. Option to repurchase Preferred Shares at the Company’s initiative1.1. Exercise of the Preferred Share buyback option1. The Board of Directors may, with the right to further delegate such powers, pursuant to theapplicable laws and regulations, buy back Preferred Shares, subject to prior approval by the SGCB,under the terms and conditions set out in this Article in paragraph 1.2, “Cases in which the Companymay exercise its option to buy back Preferred Shares”.2. Any buyback notice under the terms of this Article 32.B is irrevocable, it being specified that abuyback notice may be contingent upon there being no objection from the Company’s creditors.3. If the buyback applies to only part of the Preferred Shares, the Preferred Shares will berepurchased from the holders of Preferred Shares of a given class on a proportional basis. In theevent that the number of Preferred Shares to be repurchased proportionately is not a whole number,the number of Preferred Shares effectively bought back from the holder shall be the next lower wholenumber.4. All Preferred Shares bought back in this manner shall be cancelled as of the buyback date.5. The reports of the Board of Directors and of the Statutory Auditors stipulated in Article R.228-19 of the French Commercial Code shall be made available to the Shareholders at the Company’sregistered office no later than fifteen days following the Board Meeting that carried out the buyback.These reports shall also be brought to the attention of the Shareholders at the next General Meeting.1.2. Cases in which the Company may exercise its option to buy back Preferred SharesUnder the conditions set out in paragraph 1.1 “Exercise of the Preferred Share buyback option” of thisArticle, the Board of Directors may, with the right to further delegate such powers pursuant to theapplicable laws and regulations, subject to prior approval by the SGCB, repurchase the PreferredShares in the following cases:(i) subject to providing written notice to the Preferred Shareholders of the given class in writing orby a notice published in a daily business and financial news publication with a wide circulation in Parisat least 30 calendar days and no more than 60 calendar days in advance, the Board of Directors mayarrange to repurchase, at any time after the tenth anniversary of the Date on which the given PreferredShares were issued, all or part of the relevant Preferred Shares at the Buyback Amount (as defined inthis Article in paragraph 1.3, “Determination of the Buyback Amount in the event that the Companyexercises its option to buy back the Preferred Shares”) on the date stated in the notice, provided thatPage 227 sur 237

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