Chapter 4

Information concerning the issuer's activities 4.1. The issuer's principal activities: 4.1.0. Description of the issuer's principal activities, stating the main categories of products sold and/or services performed. Indication of any significant new products and/or activities. 4.1.1. Breakdown of net turnover during the past three financial years by categories of activity and into geographical markets insofar as, taking account of the manner in which the sale of products and the provision of services falling within the issuer's ordinary activities are organised, these categories and markets differ substantially from one another. 4.1.2. Location and size of the issuer's principal establishments and summary information about real estate owned. Any establishment which accounts for more than 10 % of turnover or production shall be considered a principal establishment. 4.1.3. For mining, extraction of hydrocarbons, quarrying and similar activities insofar as significant, description of deposits, estimate of economically exploitable reserves and expected period of working. Indication of the periods and main terms of concessions and the economic conditions for working them. Indication of the progress of actual working. 4.1.4. Where the information given pursuant to headings 4.1.0 to 4.1.3 has been influenced by exceptional factors, that fact should be mentioned. 4.2. Summary information regarding the extent to which the issuer is dependent, if at all, on patents or licences, industrial, commercial or financial contracts or new manufacturing processes, where such factors are of fundamental importance to the issuer's business or profitability. 4.3. Information concerning policy on the research and development of new products and processes over the past three financial years, where significant. 4.4. Information on any legal or arbitration proceedings which may have or have had a significant effect on the issuer's financial position in the recent past. 4.5. Information on any interruptions in the issuer's business which may have or have had a significant effect on the issuer's financial position in the recent past. 4.6. Average numbers employed and changes therein over the past three financial years, if such changes are material, with, if possible, a breakdown of persons employed by main categories of activity. 4.7. Investment policy: 4.7.0. Description, with figures, of the main investments made, including interests such as shares, debt securities, etc., in other undertakings over the past three financial years and the months already elapsed of the current financial year. 4.7.1. Information concerning the principal investments being made with the exception of interests being acquired in other undertakings. Distribution of these investments geographically (home and abroad). Method of financing (internal or external). 4.7.2. Information concerning the issuer's principal future investments, with the exception of interests to be acquired in other undertakings on which its management bodies have already made firm commitments.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-11 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.