This year's meeting, again, the meeting is held behind closed doors because of the pandemic and in order to protect the health of our shareholders and employees, and in accordance with the regulation. Obviously, I regret this situation, and I would like to thank you for your understanding. This meeting is taking place at the head office in Cergy Pontoise and is being held on first notice. Present with me are Michel Delville, Group CFO, Pascal Kolbaczki, Head of Legal and Insurance, and Pascal Omnès, Head of Communications. Our statutory auditors are following this meeting live. The legal notices were published within the regulatory deadlines. The accounts reports and all the documents that must be made available to shareholders were made available in accordance with the legal and regulatory provisions in force and can be consulted on the company's website. This meeting is broadcast live on our website. You've had the opportunity to vote by mail in paper form or electronically, and to send us questions in writing. The scrutineers will be Mr. Jean-François Martinet, representing the SPIE for UFCP, and Mr. Damien Mariette, representing Sycomore AM Asset Management, who are following this meeting live. I'd like to point out that they represent two out of the 10 largest shareholders of the company in terms of voting rights. Many of you have voted by mail. You gave proxy to the chairman, or you voted online through the vote access system. I would like to thank you for that. The final quorum is at 74.83%. Our meeting can therefore validly deliberate. The agenda of your meeting is displayed on the screen. I would like to go through the highlights of 2020 before Michel Delville talks about the financial elements. I'll take the floor again to talk about corporate social responsibility. Before we talk about the group's future, Michel Bleitrach, Chairman of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee, and Henri-Pierre Navas on behalf of the Board of Statutory Auditors, will then take the floor. Their presentations have been recorded in advance. After these speeches, we will continue with a Q&A. Those who are watching the general meeting will be able to ask us questions in a chat room during the presentations. These questions will be grouped by themes so that we can answer them, we will conclude with the votes on the resolutions. We will be watching a video which will show you the main highlights of 2020 before we talk about some of these elements in a minute. The highlights of 2020. In 2020, SPIE celebrated its 120th anniversary. From March onwards, SPIE mobilized to fight COVID-19. Emergency equipment and technical installation of specialized care units. We ensured everyone had access to essential services. Renovation of a switching station for Berlin's electricity grid, Germany. 3,000 teachers connected to facilitate remote learning, Switzerland. 4G antenna repairs in France. We stepped up our acts of solidarity. Lighting up the Rainbow Bridge in tribute to healthcare workers, the U.K. Food distribution in Angola and Nigeria. As a key player in the energy and digital transition, SPIE proves its ability to rebound. Renewable energy, connecting wind farms to electricity grid, Germany and Belgium. First floating solar plant, France. Electricity mobility, 3,000 charging points for the Greater Paris project. Data centers offering greater energy efficiency. We continue to innovate to better serve our customers. Smart office, comfort and safety at work, Switzerland. Well, after this short video, we'll go through the highlights of 2020. Before anything, I'd like to thank our employees who really have shown how committed they are during this very difficult period. Something we had never experienced before in the company. They're fully committed. Their engagement to better serve our customers is something that I should mention. No customer was left on the side of the road. No service was neglected. Our employees, women and men, have shown how committed they are. They have been very much responsible in this very difficult period. I would like to thank them very much and from the bottom of my heart. As far as 2020 is concerned, this was a very unique year. It was an opportunity, if I can use the expression for SPIE, to show how solid our business model is in an unprecedented context. During the second half of 2020, we saw a sharp rebound, even though the health measures were hardened in most of the countries where we work. We have been able to be resilient throughout the health crisis. As you can see in the profit of our group in 2020, we have paid attention to generation of free cash flow, during this period, we've reduced the debt of our group in a significant way, thanks to a very good operating free cash flow generation. As far as the short-term objectives are concerned, we have continued to work also on our mid-term plans, we have paid attention to the greening of our activities within the framework of European Taxonomy. We have also decided to take more commitments and more stringent commitments so as to reduce our carbon footprint in compliance with the 1.5 degree target defined by the IPCC. Our commitment is to reduce our footprint by 25% before 2025. This resilience is something that we can see in our figures. In 2020, we saw a decrease in revenues limited to 5%. This is the organic decrease. Our margins have remained at a very good level if you look at our peers. The decrease was limited to 90 basis points. At the end of the year, our margin was at 5.1%. I mentioned cash generation. We had a free cash flow of EUR 323 million, a record, and a cash conversion, which is important for the SPIE Group, at 139%. We have again sharply decreased our leverage ratio, going from 2.7 down to 2.4 times. We will, if the general meeting agrees, we will start again our payout policy in 2021 for the 2020 results on the basis of EUR 0.44 per share. During the second half of the year, there was strong recovery, as you can see on the slide. This is for organic revenues per quarter in 2020. As you can see, there was a massive impact during Q2 with a drop of 17% due to lockdown measures that were stringent measures taken by the government in France, in Belgium, and in the U.K. more particularly. Other countries like Germany or the Netherlands or Poland didn't have these types of lockdowns at that moment in 2020. Our organic growth, as you can see, is stabilizing and we're improving. The de-growth was 1.8% during Q3, and now we've improved, reaching 1.3% de-growth or negative growth during Q4. This really shows that the SPIE model is resilient. We've been telling you that for years. Our services are essential services. They are mission-critical. I think this is something we've managed to check again this year. When our customers are in a position to grow, they need us, and that's why we've limited the organic decrease, and we've managed to more or less offset the situation at the end of the year. This also shows that our teams are really close to our customers. It's always been the case, and we've continued. We have the underlying trends such as energy transition and the digital transformation. Let's have a look at geographic breakdown. The organic contraction of revenues of the group limited to a -5% in 2020. In France, if you look at the main geographies, France was the most affected country with a de-growth of a -9.8%. That's the organic percentage for the full year. As you've seen, it was mainly during Q2 that it happened. In Germany, in Central Europe, the situation was different altogether with an organic growth, which is still in the black, slightly positive. Total growth, thanks to our acquisitions, reached 3.2%. I think it is important to say that in this organic growth, which is slightly positive, Germany had an organic growth which was higher than that in 2020. Northwestern Europe, we've had a de-growth -2.7%. As I said earlier on, there's an important country for us in this region, which is our third country in the SPIE Group, which is the Netherlands. Their organic growth was slightly positive during the year. There's oil and gas and nuclear. They were affected negatively for different reasons. Oil and gas, as you know, there's indirect impact of the COVID pandemic on the oil prices. This business has been impacted in the field of service activities. As far as the nuclear business is concerned, it's mainly during Q2 that we suffered when EDF decided to sharply limit the access to employees to their power plants. Therefore, now the business is back to a more normal level, which is a trend that reversed in summer. All in all for the group, organic de-growth is at -5%. Let's talk about our margins or EBITA margin. We got off to a very good start at the beginning of the year. Q1 was stable despite lockdown measures that had impact on the second half of March. Our margin was quite good during Q1, and we were more affected during Q2 for the reasons I mentioned earlier on. As you can see on this slide, we're almost back to the level we reached in 2019 during Q4 2020. We're back to the margins we had in 2019, and as you can see, it was the case as well for Q1 2021. We've recovered, our margins have recovered rather, even though the context is tough. We can't do the things we would do in the past due to health constraints that have had impact on productivity and on our cost structures. Yet, we're back to a good margin level, and we managed to do this during Q4. For the year, margins decreased, but in a limited way, 90 basis points. At the end of the year, we reach 5.1%. Now I will hand over to Michel Delville, our administrative and financial director, who will be going through the financial results of 2020. Our CFO. Thank you, Gauthier. Hello, everybody. As Gauthier's just said, the performance of our group was really good in 2020 in an unprecedented context. Let's have a look at the profit and loss account. The revenues reached EUR 6.6 billion, therefore a drop of 4.7% compared with 2019. I'll come back to this in a minute. There's EBITA that reached EUR 339 million, which means a drop of 18.9% versus the previous year, and our EBITA margin at 5.1% is down again. It was at 6% in 2019. Yet it's still at a high level given the context. The net adjusted earnings of the group reached EUR 176 million. Therefore, net earnings per share adjusted is EUR 1.1, therefore a drop of 24% compared with the previous fiscal year. The net group attributable earnings is at EUR 53.2 million. We had EUR 150 million in 2019. In 2020, the group had non-recurring expenses, which was not the case in 2019. For instance, an accounting loss of EUR 46 million when we disposed of a business activity for mobile maintenance in the U.K., plus restructuring costs totaling EUR 24 million, by the way. These non-recurring expenses will not have an impact on the adjusted earnings and the net earnings per share. That we have a like-for-like basis, I'd like to say that the 2019 figures have been restated. We've re-included the contribution of the U.K. business for global maintenance in schools, a business which in the past was supposed to be disposed of, and therefore presented in the 2019 accounts as to be disposed of in compliance with IFRS five. We, however, managed to keep this activity, and therefore it's in the 2020 numbers. On the right-hand side of our table, we have the 2019 figures that were declared before restatement. As you can see, the impact is quite minimal. Now, back to production, that is revenues of our group. As you can see, if we set aside the Forex effect, we've had a moderate drop in revenues of 4.6%. This includes an organic contraction limited to 5%, and the impact of acquisitions totaling 1.3%, a positive impact, therefore. That's the full year effect of acquisitions made in 2019. As you can see as well, there's the negative impact, which is 0.9%, which is the disposal of mobile maintenance activities in the U.K. conducted in March 2020. Therefore, in a nutshell, the figures show a good resilience in the difficult context with a significant rebound during the second half, which really shows that our business model is quite resilient and solid. Now let's have a look at free cash flow and debt. As you can see here on the right-hand side, 2020 was a record year for us in terms of generating free cash flow, reaching EUR 353 million, a record that we'd never met before. This year again, the EBITA conversion into operating free cash flow was really good, above 100%. We've reached 139%. Of course, in 2020, we had postponements of taxes and social expenses, thanks to government measures that were rolled out so as to react to the health crisis. Of course, these amounts will have to be paid this year. We have started paying them as I speak. Yet, as you can see, we have a good control on our working capital requirement, which is part and parcel of the group's DNA and our financial discipline. This worked really well again in 2020, despite the context. Thanks to the remarkable work done by the financial teams and our operatives. What you can see on this slide is a good illustration of the ability of the group to transform the operating performance into cash generation, which as you can see, has been renewed year in, year out, which was very useful in 2020. Our group didn't have to ask for new lines from the banks We have enough liquidity and banking lines to cover our needs. The cash flow generated in 2020 has helped us to pay our debt. The initial baseline debt was EUR 1.251 billion at the end of December 2019, as you can read on the left-hand side of this slide. Cash flow from operations amounts to EUR 466 million with an extraordinary improvement of our working capital requirement by EUR 244 million. After payment of our taxes and corporates and interests, we end up with a free cash flow of EUR 323 million that I just mentioned. On the right-hand side of the slide, you see the direct impact of disposals and acquisitions. Since we're close to zero, we end up with a net debt of EUR 927 million as of 31st of December 2020. It has decreased, with IFRS standards. Of course, this has improved our leverage. As you can see here, our leverage ratio is part of our focuses. This is a slide showing the history of this ratio. You have the LBO years with rather high rates in 2011 from 4.5. Every year it has improved. The group kept on paying its debt after the IPO in 2015 up to the acquisitions of SAG, which has allowed the group to grow in Germany bigger and raise this ratio to 3.3 in 2017. Onwards, the ratio went on decreasing. Once again, this year it is standing at 2.4 in 2020, thanks to the significant decrease of our debt. This leverage ratio decrease will continue in 2021, thanks to the expected recovery of EBITDA, which was impacted in 2020 in Q2 because of the health crisis. When it comes to the dividend, I'd like to remind, first of all, that in a context of a social, economic, and health crisis that is unprecedented, the board of directors had proposed last year not to pay the balance or the remaining amount of this dividend as a sign of solidarity to the stakeholders, including the employees, and it was approved by the shareholders' general meeting. It was decided that paying the dividend was nevertheless at the heart of the capital allocation of SPIE. Our objective is to pay 40% of our net result to our shareholders. The remaining amounts are allocated to payment of our debt and investments in CapEx and payment of acquisitions. These are also levers and drivers for our growth. That's why this year we've decided to pay out EUR 0.44 per share. These will be fully paid in cash as of May 27th, since there wasn't any down payment in 2020. This year, we will be renewing with the down payment, which will account for EUR 0.13 and will be paid out in cash in September 2021. Our shareholders will therefore have a dividend of EUR 0.57 as a dividend and down payment on dividend or interim dividend. I'm now giving the floor back to Gauthier Louette. Thank you, Michel. I will now talk about SPIE CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility. You know that it is a topic that is very dear to our hearts, and we've been really striving to meet our objectives. Since last year, as far as we could, of course, in the framework of the European Taxonomy measuring sustainable businesses, the first exercise in 2019 showed that the green parts of our business were 35%, and this year it is standing at 41%, with two main reasons for this improvement. The Taxonomy is now more favorable, particularly when it comes to a building's energy efficiency, and also our businesses have grown in green, and that's in line with our business strategy. That's +3%, particularly thanks to the growth of our power transmission, and distribution, particularly in Germany. That's the green part of our business as per the European Taxonomy, which is now at 41% for 2020. Of course, we will strive to make sure that this percentage will go up again. This is an example of a switch and transformer in Lubmin, Germany. Vattenfall being the client, it was about connecting wind farms to the grid. That's a very big power station, collecting power supplied from the wind farms in the Baltic Sea. These are the wind farms of Baltic Eagle and Arcadis Ost 1. That's really at the heart of the business of SPIE SAG in Germany. Now, in the area of smart cities, you have here an example of IoT, Internet of Things, for street lighting, helping to save power in public lighting. We are aiming at 60% saving, and this is something we have actually achieved. We control this at SPIE. Public lighting, even though it helps to achieve some savings, is still not part of the European green taxonomy. The authorities maybe should take this into account so that it will increase the green part of our business. Another example, data centers that are very important in our business. This is an example of Eindhoven high-tech campus for KPN in the Netherlands. This is a data center where energy or power is recycled to provide power to the neighboring districts. This is a system that helps to collect heat for the heating in the neighboring districts. It helps, therefore, to significantly save power and helps to reach a positive balance in terms of CO2 emissions. Even during this crisis, our business is considered as mission critical. Of course, as you know, the aerospace and aeronautics industry were greatly impacted. It never prevented us from winning any contract, and for instance, here, we've won a contract for the industrial sites of Air France in Roissy and Orly airports. They have set quite ambitious objectives to SPIE. Here again, our know-how will help this industrial client to significantly decrease their carbon footprint. Another example in the Netherlands. As you know, the Netherlands is flat, we're talking here about an onshore wind farm. These wind farms are at the very heart of our business. We have developed several wind farms of such type in the Netherlands, this one allows to provide power to 60,000 households, or even slightly more, 65,000 households by the end of 2021. This commitment of SPIE in sustainable development is reflected in this green share of our business. We've also decided to reduce our own carbon footprint. That's scope one and two. That is the scopes that are specific to our business. Compared with 2019, our objective is to reduce by 25% these emissions by 2025. Most of our direct emissions are due to the fleet of our vehicles, 87% of such emissions. Of course, the challenge here will be about significantly reducing the carbon footprint of our vehicles, and there is only one solution to that. That is, we'll have to increase the share of electric vehicles in our fleet. That is increasing by 35% by 2025. The second part of our direct emissions are due to our buildings, real estate. It's only 13%, but this is something we will keep on making efforts to further reduce these, thanks to our energy efficiency. Of course, I have no concerns regarding this because we have all the knowhow at home. There is also human capital that matters in the framework of CSR. For a long time, we've had a well-developed employee share ownership plan, back to 2017 when it was set up. This was further developed as the company was growing, as the group was growing. More than 6% of SPIE shares are held by employees in the framework of FCP or direct share ownership, like in Germany. It has put SPIE in the top 10 of the SBF 120 index in terms of employee share ownership. The SPIE employees are the leading shareholders, is the most important group of shareholders in the company. In the midterm, even at a time of a pandemic in 2020, in extremely hectic years, we kept on recruiting. Almost 4,000 people were recruited in 2020. We've also had 900 apprentices, that is young students in sandwich courses. We've also worked on improving our retention rate, and the voluntary departures from the company has significantly decreased compared with 2019. That was very important to keep on working on these retention plans to keep our employees. Health and safety at work. That's also the heart of our corporate culture. It did help us during this pandemic. The safety culture that has been developed at SPIE, the habit to develop new safety measures, has also been very helpful, particularly when it came to restarting our work sites, because people were very strict in applying and enforcing the new restrictions and the new rules and procedures. Therefore, the percentage of severe accident has significantly reduced by 20%, as well as the frequency rate with the loss of time accidents, 5.8% versus 6.3% in 2019. Our employees really have endorsed this responsibility. We've also worked quite hard on diversity, gender diversity. Our objective by 2025 is to increase by 20% the number of women holding key positions, managerial positions in the company, the baseline being today 16%. One last example in relation to this COVID pandemic before we move on to the comments on our business results. You have here an example from Clermont-Ferrand in the center of France. We could also have taken a similar example in Germany, where we provided vaccination centers as they were developed. They had to be developed quickly, and hopefully, they will not be there for a long time. We provided them with all the IT and connection systems in a very responsive fashion. Now, outlooks for 2021. SPIE is hoping for a strong recovery of its production EBITDA margin, very close to the 2019 figures. We also want to renew our bolt-on acquisitions by an amount of EUR 200 million of annual turnover to be acquired this year. As Michel has just told you, we will keep on reducing our leverage ratio. We know that it will keep on decreasing in 2021. As Michel has just confirmed, we are resuming our dividend policy, dividend distribution policy. In 2021, we aim at distributing a dividend of 40% of the adjusted net results. Now, the bolt-on acquisitions for 2021. There were three of those since the beginning of the year. Energotest in Poland in industrial I&C systems. WirliebenKabel in Germany. We love cables. That's what it means. It's very easy to understand the purpose of this company. It is specialized in deploying optical fiber cables, and they joined us in April this year. Same thing for telecom and fiber optics. We've acquired KEM in Austria. They also have a significant share in the development of optical fibers in this country. Because as you see, the fiber to the home penetration rate in Germany and Austria is far behind what we have in France or in the European Union of 28 states. They're lagging several years. It's important for us because we have a strong presence in France in this business. It's important to reinforce our presence in Central Europe and Germany. We've made these two acquisition in April. For Q1 2021, we are rather happy with the preliminary figures. The production trends are robust. In 2021 Q1, we have an organic growth with a production which is greater than the Q1 2022 and Q1 2019. A significant increase with an organic growth which is greater or equal to 4% in France and Germany. In Germany, Q1 2020 was not impacted by the health crisis, so it was a very high performance level in Germany. We've also observed that the markets are very dynamic, and it shows how relevant our positioning is to serve energy transition and digital transformation. EBITDA margin has renewed with the 2019. That is the pre-COVID margin. We have also reinforced our capacity in production for optical fibers networks in Germany and Central Europe, as I just explained. We are confirming our guidance for 2021, in line with the guidance I've just described. The key figures for Q1 are a 1.4% organic growth compared with 2020, plus 1.1% compared with 2019, with a margin standing at 3.7%, which is the same as the Q1 2019 margin.This recovery was significant in France, particularly when comparing with Q1 2020 because of the very strict lockdown which was imposed in France with an organic growth, which is also on the rise in Germany and Central Europe. 4% in Germany out of this 3.1%. Northwestern Europe is declining, and that's because the Netherlands were not impacted in Q1 2020, but the business has slowed down and was slower in picking up, particularly in the industrial sector. Oil and gas and nuclear are stable compared with 2020. Organic growth is at 1.4% for Q1 2021 for the group compared with Q1 2020. In the midterm, I think that our group is very well-positioned, and this is supported by the recovery plans which have been announced by the French and German government that are focusing on energy transition and green economy. Sustainable mobility, also new items, particularly in the industry with hydrogen as a source of power and everything that is related to digital transformation. All these investment plans, these support plans are boosting SPIE's development and growth. SPIE is on the solution side, the fact that states and governments are investing in this government is a very positive message for the company. Right. This is it for the 2020 results and Q1 2021. My message is a message of trust, reasoned trust in the future. Our company's been very strongly resilient, and our group has managed to show that the employees are fully committed, and technically they are highly skilled. Our good performance has to do with our good client portfolio. We've had zero default on the client side during this very tough period. That's very positive for us in terms of our future, and the underlying trends are quite favorable for the SPIE Group. I usually say that SPIE's on the side of solutions, and I usually say that the time is a favorable time for people to be engineers and electricians. Thank you very much for your attention concerning our group's business. Now I'll hand over to Mr. Michel Bleitrach as Chairman of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee, his speech was recorded in advance. After Mr. Bleitrach, we'll listen to Mr. Navas, who will be speaking on behalf of the Board of Statutory Auditors. Thank you very much for your attention. Ladies and gentlemen, dear SPIE shareholders. As Chairman of the Appointments and Remuneration of the Board, I will go through a couple of slides about the appointment of two independent directors, of course, subject to your approval, and the elements of the variable pay of Gauthier Louette, Chairman CEO for 2020, and the structure of his compensation for 2021, both fixed pay and variable pay. On the first slide, you can see a reminder of the members of the Appointments and Compensation Committee. We have one director representing employees, Jérôme Nier, and three independent directors, Regine Stachelhaus, Bertrand Finet, and myself as chair. As far as the new independent directors are concerned, they were selected according to the process described page 209 of the universal registration document. Within the framework of this process, our committee received guidance from a consulting firm and proposed names of candidates to the board to replace Sophie Stabile, who left the board in March 2021, and myself, since I'll be leaving the board at the end of today's combined shareholders general meeting. I would like to seize this opportunity to tell you that it was a privilege for me to be a member of your board, and I also wanted to thank you for trusting me since your company was IPO'd. As far as the first appointment is concerned, we're talking about Mrs. Sandrine Téran who was chosen as an independent director upon decision of the board, dated 11th of March 2021. Her resume is in our brochure. Her appointment was announced in a release dated 15th of March 2021. We think that Sandrine Téran will bring her financial skills to the board as well as her experience in a listed company. Thus, she has joined the audit committee. Pursuant to the fifth resolution. We're asking you to ratify the appointment of Mrs. Sandrine Téran as director, and pursuant to the sixth resolution, to appoint Mrs. Sandrine Téran as independent director for a period of four years. The second appointment is that of Patrick Jeantet as independent director for a period of four years. Pursuant to the seventh resolution, Patrick Jeantet's experience is also in the universal registration document. The proposal to appoint Mr. Jeantet was covered by a release dated 26th of April 2021. Together with the board, we think that Patrick Jeantet will bring both his experience of operations, his international profile, and his knowledge of digital. If you approve his appointment, he will be joining the appointments and remuneration committee. On the following page, we have information about resolution number eight. That is the annual variable compensation of your Chairman and CEO, Mr. Gauthier Louette, for 2020. There's one element which is very important. The board has decided not to change the formula that we use to calculate the variable compensation for both quantitative and qualitative criteria, despite the unprecedented pandemic. There are three quantitative criteria. The first one being the organic growth of EBITDA. This organic growth is such that the annual variable compensation will be equal to zero because, as you know, SPIE's result is approximately 18% lower than what was achieved in 2019. As far as cash flow generation is concerned, despite lockdown in France and despite all the headwinds, well, SPIE's been resilient and generated operating free cash flow, which exceeded by far the numbers in the 2020 budget objectives. The variable compensation for this criterion is set as 42.9%, which is quite remarkable and worth noting. As far as the acquisitions criterion is concerned, there are two elements. First, the revenue growth, EUR 200 million. This objective was not met, of course, since there were no acquisitions per se really in 2020. Therefore, this means zero for this item, and the second item is the quality of integration and/or integration rather of the acquisitions made in 2018 and assessed in 2020. As far as this item is concerned, it was rated four out of five, which means 4% of the total 10% for this quantitative criterion. The qualitative evaluation is based on four key criteria. The CSR policy, risk control, of course, succession planning for key managers, and the strengthening of management teams. The fourth criterion is the relations that the group has with you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear shareholders, and the quality of financial communication to all the stakeholders. In this case, out of a total of 30%, which is both the maximum and the target, we consider that Gauthier Louette's actions have been, of course, excellent, which was visible in SPIE's resilience. All the elements which contribute to SPIE's excellent results, including the share price, and obviously risk control. Thus, the board rated this criterion 29 out of 30%. In total, the annual variable compensation for Gauthier Louette is set as 75.9% of his fixed compensation, which, upon his request, was reduced by 25% during the two months lockdown. Instead of EUR 800,000 for 2020, it has been decreased to EUR 769,231, which means a variable compensation which is subject to your approval at EUR 583,846 pursuant to this resolution. Resolution number nine, annual variable and fixed compensation attributable to Gauthier Louette for 2021. As far as his fixed remuneration is concerned, on the basis of a benchmark made with key SBF 120 companies, which we use with the external counsels, we have noted that Gauthier Louette's compensation was in the median in this panel of companies. In addition, since we noted no change in scope and no evolution in the function of Chairman and CEO, we suggest we maintain the fixed remuneration for 2021 at the level of 2020. That is EUR 800,000 before the one-off reduction due to the pandemic. As for the variable compensation, well, there are no changes again, just like in 2020, concerning the three quantitative criteria. That is EBITDA, operating free cash flow generation, and the quality of acquisitions, and the amount of revenues acquired by external growth in 2020. One point about the qualitative criteria. The structure will not change. We added another requirement for our CSR policy in the field of the group's carbon footprint on the first hand, and then we added indicators linked to the rating of our company by extra financial rating agencies, including EcoVadis, MSCI, and Sustainalytics. This will give us a better overview of SPIE's CSR policy under the supervision of your Chairman and CEO. The annual total for the variable compensation will not exceed 171% like the previous years. That is 171% of the fixed compensation. As to the other components used for Gauthier Louette's compensation, there are no changes except for the amount of shares which the board would like to attribute as performance shares instead of more or less 36,000 shares given in the previous scheme. The board's proposal is to grant 42,767 shares. That is plus 6,000 more to Mr. Gauthier Louette as performance shares. That is 8% of all performance shares granted to the 250 managers who will or who might get them if all criteria are met at the end of the three-year plan. By the way, we have not changed the ceiling for performance shares. This ceiling was set by yourselves for Mr. Gauthier Louette in the past. Rather than using a lower figure, let me remind you that last year we had 6.8% of the total amount of performance shares given to Mr. Gauthier Louette. This year, we will be using the 8% ceiling, which is well below by 8% market average. That is 8% lower than market average and SBF 120 companies. We're looking at approximately 10% of the performance shares given to managers in the companies, the performance plans of which we have reviewed and scrutinized in the recent years, including 2021. We are below market practices, and we will be using the ceiling that you've previously set for the previous schemes. Finally, regarding the compensation of the directors of your board, you will find all the information in the universal registration document, which specifies that the fixed compensation granted to independent directors was reviewed on the basis of the model used for Mr. Gauthier Louette, which means that it was reduced so as to take into account the lockdown period during the second half of 2020. Ladies and gentlemen, dear shareholders, I'd like to thank you for your attention. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, dear shareholders. On behalf of the Board of Statutory Auditors, I have the honor of presenting to you a summary of the reports that were issued following our review of the parent company consolidated financial statements of SPIE Group for the year ended 31st of December 2020. It should be noted that these reports in their entirety have been made available to you by the company. In the context of the ordinary resolutions, we have issued three reports. A report certifying the annual financial statements, a report on the certification of the consolidated accounts, and a report on regulated agreements. In the context of the extraordinary resolutions, we've issued four reports on transactions related to the share capital, the subjects of which are shown on the slide presented to you. We've issued a supplementary report to our report of 14th of April 2020 on the capital increase with cancellation of preferential subscription rights. In our reports on the financial statements, we certified without any reservations the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with French accounting rules and principles, and the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the European Union. We conducted our audit in accordance with professional standards applicable in France. These standards require that we obtain reasonable assurance that whether the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatements, and that our audit was conducted in accordance with the rules of independence. In the context of the justification of our assessments in the key audit review, we would firstly like to point out that these assessments were made in a complex and evolving context of the global crisis linked to COVID-19. In our report, we present the key audit reviews that we considered to be the most important ones, describing the risks identified and the responses made in the course of our work. These key points are for the audit of the annual accounts, the valuation of equity investments, and for the audit of the consolidated accounts, the recognition of the results on the long-term service contracts and the valuation of goodwill. In the context of the specific verifications required by law, we've no observations to make regarding the fairness and consistency of the annual accounts and consolidating financial statements, the information given in the management report of the board of directors in the other documents sent to the shareholders. We have no comments on the information provided that could have an impact in the event of a public offer or purchase or exchange. We have no comment on the information relating to the identity of the shareholders and voting rights. Furthermore, we certify the sincerity and consistency with the annual accounts of the information relating to payment deadlines, the accuracy and sincerity of the information provided on the remuneration and benefits paid to the corporate offices, as well as on the commitments made in their favor. Finally, we certify that the consolidated statement of non-financial performance is included in the information relating to the group given in the management report. In conclusion on these reports, we report to you that we have verified that the presentation of the consolidated financial statements and the annual financial statements for inclusion in the annual financial report comply in all material respects with a single European reporting format. Report on related-party agreements. In our special report on regulated agreements, we inform you that we have not been notified of any agreements authorized during the financial year, which would be subject to approval by the general meeting. With regard to the agreements already approved during the previous financial years, with the inclusion of the agreement related to the bonus statement letter, the 22nd of May continued during the financial year terms described on the slide. In addition to agreements previously approved, we issue four reports in the context of the resolutions presented at the extraordinary general meeting. A report on reduction in capital by cancellation of shares, a report on the capital increase reserved for members, a report on capital increase with cancellation of preferential subscription rights for employees and corporate officers of your company or of the companies affiliated to it outside of France. existing or future free shares to employees and officers of your company or of related companies. For all of these operations, we conducted our work in accordance with the professional standards of the Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes. In conclusion on these reports, we have an conditions opposed to capital reduction. These matters determining the price of the shares in resolutions have been given in the board of directors report on the proposed operation towards the allocation of shares. The terms and conditions under which the issues will be cannot have been determined. We note that any emission on the proposal of council resolutions 14 and 15. Finally, we would like to add that we'll draw up additional certificates if necessary where your board of directors uses this delegation. This concludes the summary of the reports. Thank you for your attention. I'd like to thank Michel Bleitrach and Henri-Pierre Navas for their presentations. As he mentioned in his presentation, Michel Bleitrach will leave the board of directors of SPIE after this shareholders general meeting, after having been a member of this board for almost 10 years. He's been with us along the journey, taking the company in the main milestones of its history and growth at the time of the IPO and as a listed company. Under his chairmanship of the appointment and compensation committee, since significant progress have been made, aiming and leading us towards the best practices. He has good common sense and has had an excellent capacity to ask relevant question to the management on the company on the decisions which were made regarding the company's development. Personally, I must say, I was extremely pleased to have Michel Bleitrach along with us through these years, and I know that we will keep in touch in the future after he has left. On behalf of the company, of the board of directors and the shareholders, we would like to sincerely thank Michel Bleitrach for all the work he has performed with us over these years. I also would like to warmly thank Henri-Pierre Navas, who, because of the turnover in the statutory auditors, was with us for the very last time, on their behalf at SPIE shareholders general meeting. I would like to express our gratitude for his efficient work and a great professional attitude over these years. Henri-Pierre Navas has always been a valuable person when it came to providing us with advice and consultancy services accompanying the company. We are now moving on to the Q&A session. I have been informed that we haven't received any written questions from the shareholders, and the technical team also is telling me that we haven't received any question from the chat. We're now going to move on to the votes on resolution, and I will give the floor now to Pascal Kolbaczki, the Secretary of this General Meeting, who will be presenting the result of the votes on the resolutions that have been presented to you as shareholders. I'd like to remind you that the voting rights, after a deduction of self-detained shares that are deprived of, are 178,769,317 with 119,830,988 votes. That is a quorum of 74.83%. There were 13 votes on the ordinary meeting and four for the extraordinary meeting, and so a reinforced majority by the two-third for those. Now, we are now going to present the results per resolution. First resolution: approval of the accounts of the company for the fiscal year closing on December 31st, 2020. Approved 99.81%. Second resolution: approval of the company's consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended December 31st, 2020. Approved 99.81%. Third resolution: allocation of the profit or loss of the financial year ended December 31st, 2020, and setting the dividend at EUR 0.44 per share. Approved 99.81% of the vote. Fourth resolution: approval of the regulated related party agreements and undertakings referred to in Article L. 225-38 and following of the French Commercial Code, and of the auditor's special report. Approved by 98.89%. Fifth resolution: ratification of the appointment of Mrs. Sandrine Téran as a director. Approved 89.55%. Sixth resolution: appointment of Mrs. Sandrine Téran as director. Approved 85.54%. Seventh resolution: appointment of Mr. Patrick Jeantet as director. Approved 99.97%. Eighth resolution: approval of the fixed variable and exceptional components of the total remuneration and benefits in kind attributable to Mr. Gauthier Louette as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the year 2020. This resolution is approved by 95% of the vote, 95.02%. Ninth resolution: approval of the remuneration policy for the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Approved 92.91%. 10th resolution: approval of the information mentioned in paragraph one of Article L. 22-10-9 of the French Commercial Code. This resolution is approved by 95.61% of the votes. 11th resolution: approval of the directors' compensation policy. Approved 99.90%. 12th resolution: authorization granted to the board of directors to trade the company shares. Approved 99.77%. 13th resolution: authorization to the board of directors to reduce the company's share capital by canceling treasury shares. Approved by 99.99% of the votes. 14th resolution: delegation of authority to the board of directors to increase the share capital with elimination of the preferential subscription right by issuing company shares reserved for members of a company savings plan. Approved 96.03%. 15th resolution: delegation of authority to the board of directors to increase the share capital by issuing shares with elimination of preferential subscription right in favor of a specific category of beneficiaries. Approved 95.95%. 16th resolution: approval authorization to the board of directors to freely allot existing shares or issue new shares in favor of certain employees and executive officers of the company related companies. Approved 91.22%. Finally, 17th resolution, the last one: powers for purposes of legal formalities. Approved 99.99%. I'd like to thank you for your attention, and I will now give the floor to Mr. Gauthier Louette for the official closing of this shareholders general meeting. Thank you, Pascal. Ladies and gentlemen, we are reaching the end of this shareholders general meeting, and I would like to thank you for your participation. I also wish you to stay safe and in good health, and I hope we will have the opportunity to meet again next year in a more favorable health context, in a more friendly atmosphere. Finally, we would like to invite you to watch a short video on SPIE. Thank you for the interest you have in our company
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