General Meetings

Calling of Meetings

Shareholders’ meetings are held as often as the Board of Directors deems necessary or upon the request of shareholders holding, individually or together, at least 10% of the total issued share capital of the Company.

The Board of Directors must give notice of general meetings in at least one of the Netherlands’ national daily newspapers, at least one international daily newspaper and at least one daily newspaper in each of the countries in which the Company’s shares are listed. Such publication must be made at least 15 days before the day of the meeting, not counting the day on which notice was given, and shall state either the matters to be considered at such meeting or that the agenda is open to inspection by the shareholders at the offices of the Company and at such other locations as may be specified in the notice.

The annual shareholders’ meeting of the Company is held within six months of the end of the financial year.

Shareholders’ meetings are held in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam or Haarlemmermeer (Schiphol Airport). The Board of Directors may decide that shareholders' meetings may be attended by means of electronic or video communication devices from the locations mentioned in the convening notice.

The Board of Directors must announce the date of the annual shareholders' meeting at least two months before the meeting. Requests made by one or more shareholders collectively representing at least 1% of the issued share capital (or shares having an aggregate market value of €50 million), to put items on the agenda for the annual shareholders' meeting, must be effected by the Board of Directors, if such requests to the Board of Directors have been made at least six (6) weeks prior to the date scheduled for the meeting except if, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, important interests of the Company prevail over the insertion of such items into the agenda.

Right to attend Meetings

Each holder of one or more shares may attend shareholders’ meetings, either in person or by written proxy, to speak and to vote according to the Articles of Association. See below “Conditions of Exercise of Right to Vote”.

A shareholder or person who has the right to attend a meeting can see to it that he is represented by more than one proxy holder, provided that only one proxy holder can be appointed for each share.

In relation to holders of registered shares, the Board of Directors may provide in the convening notice that those persons are recognised as authorised to exercise the rights to attend, speak and vote at the shareholders’ meetings, who at the point in time mentioned in the convening notice are authorised to exercise those rights and as such have been registered in the register appointed for the purpose by the Board of Directors, irrespective of who is authorised to exercise those rights on the day of the meeting.

Any person who is entitled to exercise the rights set out in the above paragraph (either in person or by means of a written proxy) and is attending the meeting from another location (see “Calling of Meetings”) in such manner that the person(s) acting as chairman/chairmen of the meeting is/are convinced that such person is properly participating in the meeting, shall be deemed to be present or represented at the meeting, shall be entitled to vote and shall be counted towards a quorum accordingly.

As a prerequisite to attending the shareholders’ meeting and to casting votes, the holders of bearer shares and those who derived the aforementioned rights from these shares shall be obliged to deposit their share certificate or the documents evidencing their rights against receipt, at such locations as shall be determined by the Board of Directors and stated in the convening notice.

Such convening notice shall also state the day which has been fixed as the final day on which the share certificates and the documents evidencing the aforementioned rights may be deposited. That day may not be earlier than five business days, but in each case not earlier than the seventh day, prior to the meeting.

As far as registered shares are concerned, the Board of Directors should be informed in writing within the timeframe mentioned in the two preceding sentences of the intention to attend the meeting.

Holders of shares that are registered in the shareholders’ register kept in Amsterdam have the option of holding them through Euroclear France S.A. In this case the shares are registered in the name of Euroclear France S.A.

Shareholders holding their EADS shares through Euroclear France S.A. who wish to attend general meetings will have to request from their financial intermediary or accountholder an admission card and be given a proxy to this effect from Euroclear France S.A. in accordance with the instructions specified by the Company in the convening notice. For this purpose, a shareholder will also be able to request that it be registered directly (and not through Euroclear France S.A.) in the register of the Company. However, only shares registered in the name of Euroclear France S.A. may be traded on the stock exchanges.

In order to exercise their voting rights, the shareholders will also be able, by contacting their financial intermediary or accountholder, to give their voting instructions to Euroclear France S.A. or to any other person designated for this purpose, as specified by the Company in the convening notice.

In light of recent changes of Dutch law, the Board of Directors will propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on 4th May 2007, to amend the Articles of Association of the Company to the effect that they include the possibility for EADS to (i) set a “registration date” at which the persons entitled to attend and vote at the shareholders’ meetings are recorded for this purpose irrespective of who is shareholder at the time of the meeting, and (ii) provide for electronic means of convocation, attendance and voting at the shareholders’ meetings. The introduction of such electronic means will depend on the availability of the necessary technical means and the market practice.

Majority and Quorum

All resolutions are adopted by means of a simple majority of the votes cast except when a qualified majority is prescribed by the Articles of Association or by Dutch law. No quorum is required for any shareholders’ meeting to be held. Dutch law requires a special majority for the passing of certain resolutions: inter alia, capital reduction, exclusion of pre-emption rights in connection with share issues, statutory mergers or statutory demergers; the passing of such resolutions requires a majority of two-thirds of the votes cast if 50% of the share capital with voting rights is not present at the meeting (or otherwise a simple majority). In addition, resolutions to amend the Articles of Association or to dissolve the Company shall only be capable of being adopted with a majority of at least two-thirds of the valid votes cast at a shareholders’ meeting, whatever the quorum present at such meeting.

Pledgees of shares and beneficiaries of a usufruct, which do not have voting rights, do not have the right to attend and to speak at shareholders’ meetings. The owners of shares which are subject to a pledge or a usufruct, which do not have voting rights, are entitled to attend and to speak at shareholders’ meetings.

Conditions of Exercise of Right to Vote

In all shareholders’ meetings, each shareholder has one vote in respect of each share it holds.

A shareholder whose shares are subject to a pledge or usufruct shall have the voting rights attaching to such shares unless otherwise provided by law or by the Articles of Association or if, in the case of a usufruct, the shareholder has granted voting rights to the usufructuary. Pursuant to the Articles of Association and subject to the prior consent of the Board of Directors, a pledgee of shares in the Company may be granted the right to vote in respect of such pledged shares.

Article 25 (paragraph 2 and 3) of EADS Articles of Association provides that “The right to vote can be granted to an usufructuary. The right to vote can be granted to a pledgee, but only with the prior consent of the Board of Directors. No vote may be cast at the general meeting of shareholders on a share that is held by the Company or a subsidiary; nor for a share in respect of which one of them holds the depository receipts. Usufructuaries and pledgees of shares that are held by the Company or its subsidiaries are, however, not excluded from their voting rights, in case the right of usufruct or pledge was vested before the share was held by the Company or its subsidiary.”