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www.se.com Schneider Electric Universal Registration Document 2021 292 Chapter 4 – Corporate Governance Report Article 4 – Meetings of the Board of Directors continued 5. An attendance register shall be kept at the registered office. The proceedings of the Board of Directors shall be recorded in minutes. The secretary of the Board shall be authorized to certify copies or excerpts from the minutes of the Board’s proceedings. Article 5 – Information for the Board of Directors Members of the Board of Directors shall be provided with all the information necessary to enable them to carry out their duties and this within time limits that enable them to familiarize themselves with this information in a meaningful way. They may procure any documents they require for this purpose prior to meetings. Any request for information made by members of the Board on specific subjects shall be addressed to the Chairman serving as CEO (and, if appropriate, to the CEO), who will reply thereto as promptly as possible. In order to provide members of the Board of Directors with complete information, visits to sites and customers shall be organized for them. Members of the Board of Directors shall have the right to meet the main company executives. They shall inform the Chairman serving as CEO (and, if appropriate, the CEO) thereof. The Chairman serving as CEO shall meet each member of the Board individually once a year. Article 6 – The status of members of the Board of Directors 1. Members of the Board of Directors shall represent all the shareholders and shall act in the interests of the company in all circumstances. 2. Members of the Board of Directors shall attend Board meetings and meetings of the committees of which they are members. Any member, who has not attended at least half of the meetings held during the year, unless there are exceptional reasons, shall be deemed to wish to terminate his term of office and shall be invited to resign from the Board of Directors or the committee concerned, as appropriate. 3. Members of the Board of Directors shall be bound by a general confidentiality obligation with respect to the deliberations of the Board and the committees and with respect to information which is not in the public domain, which they receive further to performing their duties. 4. Directors may not exercise more than 4 other terms of office in listed companies outside the Group. 5. Members of the Board of Directors shall have a duty to inform the Board of Directors of any office they may hold or no longer hold in other companies. 6. Members of the Board of Directors have a permanent duty to ensure that their personal situation shall not give rise to a conflict of interest with the company. In this respect, they shall disclose: • the existence of any conflict of interest, even a potential one, upon assuming their duties and then each year in response to a request made by the company at the time of preparation of its Universal Registration Document; • upon occurrence of any event which would render the statement above mentioned totally or partially inaccurate. Any member of the Board of Directors having a conflict of interest, even a potential one, has a duty to notify it to the Vice-Chairman Lead Director who shall in turn inform the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall rule upon the conflict of interest and may request to the member(s) of the Board of Directors concerned to correct his/her situation. The member of the Board of Directors having a conflict of interest, even a potential one, shall not take part to the discussions nor to the vote of the corresponding decision and shall leave the meeting of the Board of Directors when the decision is debated. 7. During their term of office, members of the Board of Directors, to the exclusion of the Directors representing employees, shall possess at least 1,000 shares in Schneider Electric SE. For applying this obligation, except for the 250 shares which must be held to comply with Article 11.1 of the Articles of Association, shares held via a company mutual fund essentially invested in the company shares can be taken into account. The Schneider Electric shares that they hold shall either be in purely registered ( nominatif pur ) or in managed registered ( administré ) form. 8. Members of the Board of Directors shall inform the French financial market authority within three business days from the completion of the operation, by e-mail at the following address: https://onde.amf-france.org/RemiseInformationEmetteur/Client/ PTRemiseInformationEmetteur.aspx , as well as the secretary of the Board, of any acquisition, sale, subscription or exchange concerning shares issued by Schneider Electric SE or any operation on financial instruments linked thereto, conducted on their own account or on their behalf. 8A. Members of the Board of Directors shall provide the secretary of the Board with the list of the persons closely associated with them as defined by the European Regulation n°596/2014 (“Market Abuse Regulation”), whom they shall notify of their individual duties to inform the French financial market authority and Schneider Electric SE (to the attention of the secretary of the Board), similar to those applicable to themselves pursuant to paragraph 8 above. 9. Members of the Board of Directors undertake to abide by the compliance Code governing stock-market ethics, of which they have received a copy, with respect to their personal financial transactions. In consequence, members of the Board of Directors may not acquire or dispose of options or any other derivative relating to Schneider Electric SE shares, except authorized hedging of stock- options plans in order to hedge stock option plans (e.g., hedging of shares subscribed upon exercise of options). 4.1 Governance Report

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