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AIRBUS GROUP REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2015 l 80 l
GeneralDescription ofthe CompanyanditsShareCapital
3.1 General Description of the Company
3.1 General Description of the Company
3.1.1 Commercial and Corporate Names, SeatandRegisteredOffice
Commercial Name: AirbusGroup
Statutory Name: AirbusGroupSE
Registered Office: Mendelweg 30, 2333 CS Leiden,
TheNetherlands
Seat (statutaire zetel): Amsterdam
Tel: +31(0)71,5245,600
Fax: +31(0)71,5232,807
3.1.2 Legal Form
The Company is a European public company (Societas Europaea), with its seat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and registered
with the Dutch Commercial Register (Handelsregister) under number24288945. As a company operating worldwide, the Company
is subject to, and operates under, the laws of each country in which it conducts business.
3.1.3 Governing Laws and Disclosures
The Company is governed by the laws of the Netherlands
(inparticular Book2 of the Dutch Civil Code) and by its Articles
of Association (the “Articles of Association”).
The Company is subject to various legal provisions of the Dutch
Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht) (the
“WFT”). In addition, given the fact that its shares are admitted
for trading on a regulated market in France, Germany and Spain,
the Company is subject to certain laws and regulations in these
three jurisdictions. A summary of the main regulations applicable
to the Company in relation to information to be made public
in these three jurisdictions, as well as the Netherlands, is set
out below.
3.1.3.1 Periodic Disclosure Obligations
Pursuant to Directive2004/ 109/ EC on the harmonisation
of transparency requirements in relation to information about
issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated
market (as amended, the “Transparency Directive”), the
Company is required to disclose certain periodic and on-going
information (the “Regulated Information”).
Pursuant to the Transparency Directive, the Company must
disseminate such Regulated Information throughout the
European Community in a manner ensuring fast access to such
information on a non-discriminatory basis. For this purpose,
the Company may use a professional service provider (wire). In
addition, Regulated Information must be filed at the same time
with the relevant competent market authority. The Company
must then ensure that Regulated Information remains publicly
available for at least ten years.
Finally, Regulated Information must be made available for central
storage by a mechanism that is officially designated by the
Company’s home Member State.
Dutch Regulations
For the purpose of the Transparency Directive, supervision of the
Company is effected by the Member State in which it maintains
its corporate seat, which is the Netherlands. The competent
market authority that assumes final responsibility for supervising
compliance by the Company in this respect is the AFM.
Under the Transparency Directive as implemented under Dutch
law, the Company is subject to a number of periodic disclosure
requirements, such as:
 publishing an Annual Financial Report, together with an audit
report drawn up by the Statutory Auditors, within four months
after the end of each financial year; and
 publishing a semi-Annual Financial Report, within three
months after the end of the first six months of the financial year.
In addition, the Company must file with the AFM, within five days
following their adoption by the Company’s shareholders, its
audited annual financial statements (including the consolidated
ones), themanagement report, the Auditors’ report and other
information related to the financial statements.
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