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          Information regarding the Company and corporate governance
        
        
          
            2.6 Independent directors and
          
        
        
          
            directors linked to the company
          
        
        
          As per the principles advocated by the AFEP/MEDEF code,
        
        
          the directors of the LISI Group SA are qualified independent
        
        
          directors when their status meets the following six criteria:
        
        
          - not being an employee or corporate officer of the company,
        
        
          not being an employee or director of the parent company or
        
        
          of a company that it consolidates and not having held such
        
        
          status for the previous five years;
        
        
          - not being a corporate officer of a company in which the
        
        
          company directly or indirectly holds a director's mandate or in
        
        
          which an employee designated as such or a corporate officer
        
        
          (current or having been so for less than five years) holds a
        
        
          director's mandate;
        
        
          - not being a major client, supplier, investment banker or
        
        
          financial banker significant for the company or its group, or for
        
        
          whom the company or its group represents a major portion
        
        
          of business;
        
        
          - not being a close relative of a corporate officer;
        
        
          - not having been a company auditor for the previous five years;
        
        
          - not having been a company director for more than twelve
        
        
          years.
        
        
          In concrete terms, holders of the role of independent director
        
        
          are people who are not linked directly or indirectly to the
        
        
          reference shareholders which are CIKO, FFP and VIELLARD
        
        
          MIGEON & CIE (details in paragraph 2.8.1 of this document).
        
        
          
            2.7 Employees
          
        
        
          
            2.7.1 Head count
          
        
        
          
            2.7.1.1 Registered employees at period end by category
          
        
        
          The table below shows the breakdown of Group staff by
        
        
          category:
        
        
          
            2012
          
        
        
          
            2011 Difference
          
        
        
          
            N/N-1
          
        
        
          Management
        
        
          802
        
        
          761
        
        
          5.4%
        
        
          Supervisors
        
        
          747
        
        
          822
        
        
          -9.1%
        
        
          Staff and workers
        
        
          7,360
        
        
          6,929
        
        
          6.2%
        
        
          
            Total
          
        
        
          
            8,909
          
        
        
          
            8,512
          
        
        
          
            4.7%
          
        
        
          
            2.7.1.2 Registered employees at period end by division
          
        
        
          The table below shows a breakdown of Group staff by business
        
        
          activity:
        
        
          
            2011
          
        
        
          
            2010 Difference
          
        
        
          
            N/N-1
          
        
        
          LISI AEROSPACE
        
        
          5,205
        
        
          4,677
        
        
          11.3%
        
        
          LISI MEDICAL
        
        
          475
        
        
          508
        
        
          -6.5%
        
        
          LISI AUTOMOTIVE
        
        
          3,213
        
        
          3 312
        
        
          -3.0%
        
        
          Holding company
        
        
          16
        
        
          15
        
        
          6.7%
        
        
          
            Total
          
        
        
          
            8,909
          
        
        
          
            8,512
          
        
        
          
            4.7%
          
        
        
          Temporary staff
        
        
          engaged
        
        
          563
        
        
          627
        
        
          -10.2%
        
        
          
            2.7.1.3 Geographic breakdown of staff
          
        
        
          The table below shows the breakdown of staff by geographic
        
        
          area:
        
        
          
            2011
          
        
        
          
            as a % 2010 as a %
          
        
        
          France
        
        
          4,840 54% 4,727 56%
        
        
          Europe (excl. France)
        
        
          1,640 18% 1,638 19%
        
        
          North American continent 1,457 16% 1,312 15%
        
        
          Africa
        
        
          260
        
        
          3% 205
        
        
          2%
        
        
          Asia
        
        
          712
        
        
          8% 630
        
        
          7%
        
        
          
            Total
          
        
        
          
            8,909 100% 8,512 100%
          
        
        
          
            2.7.1.4 Consolidated sales revenue
          
        
        
          
            EFTAW*
          
        
        
          
            Voluntary departures
          
        
        
          
            Turnover rate
          
        
        
          9,245
        
        
          321
        
        
          3.47%
        
        
          * Equivalent full-time average wage.
        
        
          
            2.7.2 Incentive schemes, profit-sharing and stock options
          
        
        
          
            2.7.2.1 Employee profit-sharing
          
        
        
          a) Profit-sharing and incentive scheme
        
        
          
            Profit-sharing
          
        
        
          The funds paid out in the form of special reserves for profit-
        
        
          sharing during the past 3 years are as follows (in million euros):
        
        
          
            2012
          
        
        
          
            2011
          
        
        
          
            2010
          
        
        
          5.1
        
        
          3.9
        
        
          1.0
        
        
          
            Incentive scheme
          
        
        
          Most of the companies within the Group have an incentive
        
        
          system allowing employees to participate actively in the
        
        
          group’s performance. The methods for calculating the sums
        
        
          involved depend on the criteria of each company.