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In accordance with applicable legal and regulatory provisions, shareholders may attend or be represented at this Shareholders’ Meeting, or vote by correspondence, if they can justify:

• for registered shares: the registration of the shares in the registered share accounts kept by the Company at
  00:00 am, Paris time, on Monday, May 4, 2009.
• for bearer shares: the registration of the shares (where applicable in the name of the intermediary registered on behalf of the shareholder under the regulatory and legal terms and conditions) in the bearer share accounts kept by the duly empowered intermediary at 00:00 am, Paris time, on Monday, May 4, 2009. The duly empowered intermediaries shall append a certificate of attendance to the proxy or mail voting form or the admission card request drawn up in the name of the shareholder or on behalf of the shareholder represented by the registered intermediary.

Pursuant to French law, any shareholder wishing to vote by correspondence or proxy may request, by sending a letter to the corporate headquarters, a mail or proxy voting form. Only requests submitted or received by no later than Thursday, April 30, 2009 shall be processed.

The form should be sent, together with the certificate of attendance issued by the duly empowered intermediaries for bearer shares, so that the Company can receive it by no later than Monday, May 4, 2009. No form received subsequent to this day will be considered in the voting of the Shareholders’ Meeting.

A shareholder who has already cast his vote by mail, sent a proxy or requested his admission card or a certificate of attendance to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting in person, may no longer opt for another means of participation.

A shareholder may nevertheless sell all or some of his shares at any time.

Should the sale occur prior to 00:00 am, Paris time, on Monday, May 4, 2009, the vote cast by mail, the proxy, the admission request or the certificate of attendance would be invalidated or amended accordingly, depending on the case. Accordingly, the duly empowered intermediary holding the account shall inform the Company of the sale and send it the necessary information.

No sale or transaction performed after 00:00 am, Paris time, on Monday, May 4, 2009, by whatever means, shall be notified by the duly empowered intermediary or taken into consideration by the Company.

Intermediaries registered on behalf of shareholders who are not resident in France and benefiting from a general authorization to manage shares may transfer or issue under their own name shareholders’ votes.

To facilitate the organization of the shareholders’ arrival, shareholders wishing to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting are asked to request in advance, prior to Wednesday, April 29, 2009, an admission card:

• for shareholders holding registered shares: directly from Air Liquide,
• for shareholders holding bearer shares: from the bank or financial intermediary responsible for managing the account.

In any case, a certificate shall be issued by the duly empowered intermediary to the shareholder who wishes to attend the meeting in person and who has not received his admission card by Monday, May 4, 2009.

A 10 euro attendance fee will be paid to all shareholders who attend a valid Shareholders’ Meeting in person.