FAQs

As indicated in the transaction procedure, 4 SUEZ shares entitled you to 1 SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT share. If you held a number of SUEZ shares that was not a multiple of 4, you received fractional SUEZ ENVIRONMENT shares, within the (mathematical) limit of 3 fractional shares per securities account.

You could sell or buy fractional shares from 22 July to 22 October 2008, during which time they were listed on the Euronext Paris and Euronext Brussels markets.

Since 23 October 2008, fractional shares have been transferred into the delisted securities compartment (in Paris) and into the temporary securities compartment (in Brussels).

They will remain negotiable on these markets for a further twenty months, i.e. until 22 June 2010.

As of 22 July 2008 and 22 October 2008 (market closure), SUEZ undertook to pay the brokerage fees plus VAT payable by each SUEZ shareholder, up to a maximum limit of € 8 inclusive of VAT (for the purchase or the sale of a maximum of 3 SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT share allotment rights per shareholder securities account).

In this case, your intermediary was not supposed to invoice the negotiation expenses (unless you had previously signed a private account agreement, stipulating a flat-rate negotiation fee whatever the transaction). Your intermediary should have obtained a refund for the expenses directly from SUEZ. Please note that since 23 October 2008, the date on which the fractional shares were transferred into the delisted securities compartment, this offer no longer applies.

We invite you to contact your financial intermediary as quickly as possible: CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST refunded the financial intermediaries for the expenses related to the stock market floatation of the SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT COMPANY on 04 February 2009.

When you hold directly or intermediary registered shares, you benefit from the following advantages:

• easier access to General Meetings: since you are a known shareholder, the meeting convening notice is sent to you direct and you therefore have no particular formalities to carry out.

• easier access to information, for shareholders with at least 25 shares. You automatically become a member of the Shareholders Club and receive all the information memoranda which the company publishes for its shareholders.

Holding directly registered shares also gives you an additional advantage, since SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT takes charge of your custodial fees and management costs.

 

If you already hold SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT shares and you wish to transfer them to directly registered shares, simply send a written request to your financial intermediary. To simplify the process, download and fill in the registered share transfer request form.

Your financial intermediary will then undertake the necessary steps* with CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST, the financial institution commissioned by SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT to manage its registered share accounts. On receipt and acceptance of your request by CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST, the Securities Department will send you the corresponding share registration certificate and will become your sole intermediary.

The contact details of CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST are as follows:

CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST
Relations Investisseurs SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
14 rue Rouget De Lisle
92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9
Tel: +33 (0)1 57 78 34 44
Fax: +33 (0)1 49 08 05 80
e-mail: ct-contact@caceis.com

* Your financial intermediary is liable to invoice the expenses for this transaction.

The direct purchase of pure registered shares from CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST is not possible.

The procedure is as follows:

You must initially proceed to purchase SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT COMPANY shares through your usual financial intermediary and register these shares on a securities account.

You must then request the transfer of these shares to CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST as directly registered shares. To do so, simply send a written request to your financial intermediary. To simplify the process, download and fill in the registered share transfer request form.

Your financial intermediary will then take charge of all the requisite formalities (*) with CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST. On receipt and acceptance of your request by CACEIS CORPORATE TRUST, the Securities Department will send you the corresponding share registration certificate and will become your sole intermediary for the purchase or sale of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT shares.

* Your financial intermediary is liable to invoice the expenses for this transaction.

Your financial intermediary may invoice expenses for the transfer; do not forget to ask your intermediary to specify how much it will cost.

You should remember however that one of the advantages of being a directly registered shareholder is that custodial fees are borne by the Company.

No, that is not enough; you must also hold at least 25 SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT COMPANY shares.

In this case only, registration as a member of the Shareholders Club is automatic and does not require any other formality on your behalf.

You should retain the closing price as at 31/12/2008, i.e. € 12.05; this price is lower than the average for the 30 last sessions of the Stock Exchange in 2008, which stood at € 12.409.

We remind you that the French Tax Authorities allow you to opt for the lower of these 2 values.

 

Please request our shareholder publications via the following toll-free number (+33 for France) 0 800 207 207 or download the documents via the Shareholders Publications page.

If you are a member of the Shareholders Club, all the SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Shareholders Publications are sent to you.