FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION: FRAMEWORK AND PRACTICES - 2019 EDITION

172 DISSEMINATIONAND STORAGE OFTHE REGISTRATION DOCUMENT The registration document is made available free of charge to the public at the registered office of the issuer and at the offices of the organisations acting as paying agent for the issuer’s securities on the day following its filing or registration at the latest. A copy must be sent free of charge to any person at his or her request. The electronic version of the registration document is sent to the AMF to be posted on its website. When the registration document is also used as the annual or half-yearly financial report, it is subject to the dissemination and storage requirements applicable to regulatory information 12 , i.e.: n “full and effective” dissemination by electronic means. A press release announces the availability of the registration document (an example of a press release is set out in Appendix 11 to the Guide to filing regulatory information with the AMF and to its dissemination); n under the revisedTransparency Directive, issuers are required to archive registration documents on their website over a period of ten years. As from January 6, 2009, the AMF sends the document to the DILA which is responsible for archiving it via its website: www.info-financiere.fr . In addition, the press release announcing that the registration document is available must also include the list of regulatory information included in the document, particularly the corporate governance report, a description of share buyback programmes and the documents for the shareholders’ meeting 13 . To ensure equal treatment of shareholders, most companies, especially those with international shareholders, publish an English translation of the registration document. The translation must be available online at the same time as the original version of the registration document. The registration document can be incorporated in a prospectus for up to 12 months, provided it has been updated on a regular basis. The prospectus can benefit from the European Passport in the event of an offer of securities to the public or admission to trading on the regulated market of a Member State of the European Community other than France. 12 – Article 221-3 of the AMF General Regulations. 13 – Guide to filing regulatory information with the AMF and to its dissemination.