Universal Registration Document 2021

4.2.2.9 Activity of the Board of Directors in 2021

* In addition to this number of meetings, a one-day strategy seminar was held, as well as two workshops, one dedicated to the climate and the other to the challenges and prospects of the capacity obligation mechanism.

The table below shows the individual attendance rate of Directors over the 2021 fiscal year at the meetings of the Board and its Committees  :

n/a : not applicable

(1) Director whose term of office expired on 28 July 2021.

(2) Director whose term of office, as well as her duties on the Audit Committee, took effect on 22 July 2021.

(3) Director whose term of office, as well as her duties on the Audit Committee, the Strategy Committee and the Corporate Responsibility Committee, took effect on 28 July 2021.

(4) Director who ceased to be a member of the Audit Committee as of 22 July 2021.

(5) Director whose term of office ended on 6 May 2021, the first meeting of the Strategy Committee having been held on 12 May 2021

(6) Member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee since 4 November 2021, the last meeting of the Committee having been held on 28 October 2021.

Activity in 2021

In 2021, the Board of Directors reviewed and/or authorised, in addition to numerous files related to the Company’s ordinary business, the progress of the Hinkley Point C, Flamanville 3, Sizewell C projects and the Excell plan (see section 1.4.1.1.1 “The excell plan”), the financing arrangements for the new nuclear reactor programme in France as well as the commission contract for the turbo-generator sets for this programme, various EDF Renewables projects including the final investment decision for the Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind project, the Group’s gas strategy, the opening up of the capital of Edison Renewables to a financial investor (see section 1.4.5.2.3.1 “Electricity generation”), the situation of the UK nuclear plant and of EDF Energy Nuclear Generation, the climate strategy and the EDF group’s carbon trajectory, the Group’s adaptation to climate change in relation to the main physical climate risks, the mobilisation of the Group’s stakeholders on the climate and the issue of sustainable finance, the situation of the French nuclear plant in view of the winter of 2021- 2022, the update of the reference note on the policy for the constitution, management and control of the financial risks of the dedicated assets (see section 4.2.3.2 “Nuclear Commitments Monitoring Committee”) and the policy on securing the financing of nuclear costs, the responses to EDF’s Central Social and Economic Committee in the context of the dialogue between this body and the Board of Directors on the strategic direction for the Company, the update of the diversity policy applicable to Directors, the remuneration policy for the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and the Directors submitted to the General Meeting of 6 May 2021 pursuant to Article L. 22-10-8 of the French Commercial Code, the draft settlement agreement between EDF and AREVA aimed at resolving all disputes between EDF and AREVA relating to the Framatome acquisition contract signed in 2017 and to their commercial relations prior to the acquisition, the progress of the Nuward project (see section 1.4.1.1.3.2 “Other New Nuclear projects”), the proposed disposal of a residential property portfolio of the Group, and the Group’s ethics and compliance system.

The Board held extraordinary meetings to discuss the submission of the Group’s technical and commercial tender for the Indian Jaitapur project (see section 1.4.1.1.3.2 “Other New Nuclear projects”), EDF’s proposal to the Government for a new reactor programme in France, and the proposed sale of the Group’s stake in CENG (see section 1.4.5.3.4.1 “Nuclear activities in the United States”).