SECTION 674

Any public limited company participating in a merger or division transaction shall place the following documents at the disposal of its shareholders at the registered office at least fifteen days before the date of the general meeting to take a resolution on the proposed merger or division: 1°) the proposed merger or division; 2°) the reports referred to in Articles 671 and 672 of this Uniform Act; 3°) the summary financial statements approved by the general meetings as well as the management reports of the last three fiscal years of the companies participating in the transaction; 4°) an accounting report drawn up using the same methods and according to the same presentation as the last annual balance-sheet adopted on a date which, where the last summary financial statements are on a fiscal year the close of which precedes by more than six months the date of the proposed merger or division, shall precede by less than three months the date of the proposal. Any shareholder may obtain at his expense, on a mere request, a complete or partial copy of the documents referred to above.