Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ Share­hold­ers may re­quest that items be placed on the agenda, provided they to­geth­er hold at least one of the fol­low­ing par­ti­cip­a­tions:

1.

in com­pan­ies whose shares are lis­ted on a stock ex­change: 0.5 per cent of the share cap­it­al or of the votes;

2.

in oth­er com­pan­ies: 5 per cent of the share cap­it­al or of the votes.

² Sub­ject to the same re­quire­ments, the share­hold­ers may re­quest that mo­tions re­lat­ing to items on the agenda be in­cluded in the no­tice con­ven­ing the gen­er­al meet­ing.

³ Share­hold­ers may sub­mit a brief ex­plan­a­tion when pla­cing an item on the agenda or tabling a mo­tion. This must be in­cluded in the no­tice con­ven­ing the gen­er­al meet­ing.

⁴ If the board of dir­ect­ors re­fuses to ac­cept a re­quest, the re­quest­ing parties may re­quest the court to or­der that items be placed on the agenda or that mo­tions and re­lated ex­plan­a­tions be in­cluded in the no­tice con­ven­ing the gen­er­al meet­ing.

⁵ At the gen­er­al meet­ing, any share­hold­er may table mo­tions in re­la­tion to the items on the agenda.