Veolia Launches its Global Employee Stock Ownership Plan for over 190,000 Employees

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:

Veolia (Paris:VIE) launches a new edition of its employee shareholding operation. Open to more than 190,000 Group employees, this operation aims to involve them in the company's development and performance.

As a key stakeholder and already the Group's largest shareholder, employees can thus strengthen their involvement in Veolia's strategy and growth.

This initiative allows employees to subscribe directly or indirectly to Veolia Environnement shares with a goal to further strengthen the connection between the teams and the Group’s growth strategy.

This initiative takes on particular significance in the context of the GreenUp strategic program, which positions Veolia at the forefront of the ecological transformation by accelerating the development of innovative solutions in three key areas: decarbonizing economic activities, combating pollution, and regenerating natural resources.

The settlement and delivery of the new shares to be issued is expected on September 12, 2025.

The main terms of this transaction are described below.

Issuing company

Veolia Environnement, a public limited company incorporated under French law
Listing: Euronext Paris (France)
Ordinary share ISIN code: FR0000124141 VIE

Framework of the operation - Securities offered

The offer is proposed within the framework of the Veolia Environnement group savings plan and international group savings plan in accordance with Articles L. 3332-18 et seq. of the French Labour Code and on the basis of the shareholders' authorisation granted by the 19th resolution of the combined general meeting of April 24, 2025. Implementation of the offering on the basis of the resolution referred to above has been decided by the Board of Directors on May 6, 2025. The offer concerns a maximum number of 14,813,052 shares (i.e. approximately 2% of the share capital at the date of the combined general meeting of April 24, 2025).

The dates of the subscription/revocation period and the subscription price will be determined by a decision of the Chief Executive Officer, acting by delegation of the Board of Directors, scheduled for July 30, 2025. The subscription price shall be equal to the average of the volume-weighted average prices of the Veolia Environnement share on Euronext Paris during the twenty (20) trading days preceding the aforementioned decision of the Chief Executive Officer (reference price), less a discount of 15% and rounded up to the next euro cent.

The new shares will carry immediate dividend rights.

Indicative timetable of the transaction

The timetable below is provided for information purposes only and may be modified due to events affecting the proper conduct of the transaction.

Reservation period: from June 10, 2025 to June 30, 2025 (inclusive)
Subscription price setting: July 30, 2025
Subscription/revocation period: August 1 to 5, 2025 (inclusive)
Settlement and delivery of the offer: September 12, 2025

Terms and conditions of subscription

Beneficiaries of the offer

The offer is made pursuant to Articles L. 3332-18 et seq. of the French Labour Code, within the framework of the Group Savings Plan (PEG) and the International Group Savings Plan (PEGI) of Veolia Environnement. In the United Kingdom, employees can also invest in Veolia Environnement shares under the Share Incentive Plan.

It is open to employees of Veolia Environnement SA and participating subsidiaries in France and in 55 jurisdictions worldwide, with at least three months' service with the Group at the closing date of the revocation period.

Retired and early-retired former employees who have retained assets in the PEG since leaving the Group are eligible for the operation, without the benefit of the matching contribution.

Subscription formulas

Beneficiaries can subscribe to Veolia Environnement shares through two distinct offers, a secured offer with leverage effect and a classic offer:

• The secured offer with leverage effect: the subscriber benefits from a gross matching contribution of 100% of his/her personal contribution up to a limit of 300 euros, a guarantee of his/her total investment, including the matching contribution, and the higher of either (i) a minimum guaranteed return at predetermined rate on his/her investment, including the matching contribution, or (ii) a multiple of the possible increase in the Veolia Environnement share price.
• The classic offer: the subscriber invests in Veolia Environnement shares with a 15% discount on the reference price. The investment made in the classic offer presents a risk of capital loss insofar as it will follow the evolution of the Veolia Environnement share price, both upwards and downwards.

Method of holding the shares

Subscriptions are made through an FCPE or, in some countries, through direct shareholding.

The voting rights attached to the securities held in the FCPE will be exercised by the FCPE's Supervisory Board. Voting rights relating to securities held directly will be exercised by the subscriber.

Unavailability

The shares subscribed directly and the units of the FCPE will be blocked until June 3^rd, 2030 unless one of the cases of early release provided for by Articles L. 3332-25 and R. 3324-22 of the French Labour Code, as applicable in the various countries where the offer is deployed, occurs.

Hedging transactions

The secured leveraged offer implies that the counterparty bank of the said offer will carry out hedging transactions, on and/or off the markets, by means of purchases and/or sales of shares, purchase of call options and/or any other transactions, at any time and in particular as from the opening date of the period for determining the subscription price and throughout the duration of the operation.

Listing of the shares

Veolia Environnement shares are admitted to trading on Euronext Paris. The newly issued Veolia Environnement shares will be listed on the regulated market of Euronext Paris as soon as possible after the completion of the capital increase. They will be admitted on the same quotation line as the existing shares (ISIN code: FR 0000124141-VIE) and will be fully assimilated to them as soon as they are admitted for trading.

Share buyback

Veolia Environnement has decided to proceed with a share buyback through a forward contract entered into with an investment services provider prior to the combined shareholders' meeting of April 24, 2025, in accordance with the authorization granted by the 16^th resolution of the combined shareholders' meeting of April 25, 2024. The investment service provider may independently carry out the buybacks during a period beginning on July 2, 2025 and ending on July 29, 2025 up to a maximum of 14,813,052 shares, which will be delivered to Veolia Environnement on July 31, 2025. Following the adoption of the new authorization by the combined shareholders meeting of April 24, 2025, in its 18^th resolution, the Board of Directors acknowledged that the share buyback will be carried out based on this new resolution. The shares thus repurchased are intended to be (i) partly cancelled, up to the amount of the share capital increase and (ii) sold for another part in order to allow the hedging of the secured offer proposed in certain countries. The share buyback program is described in section 7.1.3 (p. 469) of Veolia Environnement's 2024 universal registration document filed with the French Financial Markets Authority on March 20, 2025, and available on Veolia Environnement's website.

Specific mention for the international market

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to subscribe for Veolia Environnement shares. The offer of Veolia Environnement shares is strictly reserved for the above-mentioned beneficiaries and will be made only in those countries where, if applicable, such an offer has been registered with or notified to the competent local authorities and/or following the approval of a prospectus by the competent local authorities, or in consideration of an exemption from the obligation to prepare a prospectus or to register or notify the offer.

More generally, the offer will only be made in countries where all required registration procedures and/or notifications will have been carried out and the necessary authorisations obtained.

The Veolia Environnement shares that may be acquired in this offer are not subject to any recommendation by governmental market or regulatory authorities. No advice or recommendation to invest is given by Veolia Environnement or any employer. The investment decision is a personal decision, which must be made by each employee taking into account his/her or her financial resources, investment objectives, personal tax situation, other investment alternatives and the fact that the value of a listed share is fluctuating. In this respect, beneficiaries are invited to consider diversification of their investment portfolio to ensure that the envisaged risk is not too concentrated in a single investment.

The offer is made on a voluntary basis by Veolia Environnement. Neither Veolia Environnement nor the employers are obliged to repeat the offer or to make similar offers in the future. The terms and conditions of the offer do not form part of the employees' employment contracts.

ABOUT VEOLIA

Veolia group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with 215,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for the management of water, waste and energy that are contributing to a radical turnaround of the current situation. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them. In 2024, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants with drinking water and 98 million with sanitation, produced 42 million megawatt hours of energy and treated 65 million tonnes of waste. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved consolidated revenue of 44.7 billion euros in 2024.
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