SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (EPA:SU) - Schneider Electric: Important information on the 2020 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting organization

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Regulatory Information

Schneider Electric: Important information on the 2020 Annual Shareholders'
Meeting organization

Rueil-Malmaison (France), April 2nd, 2020 - Considering the rapid and uncertain
evolution of the outbreak coronavirus (Covid-19), which led the French
Government to take strict containment measures for an indefinite period, and
the ban of collective assembly, it has been decided, on an exceptional basis
and in pursuance of the Order n° 2020-321 of March 25, 2020, to hold the
Annual Shareholders' Meeting in closed session without the physical attendance
of shareholders and other persons entitled to attend. The Annual Shareholders'
Meeting will be held on April 23, 2020 at 3 p.m. CET at the headquarter of
Schneider Electric SE, 35 rue Joseph Monier, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison. The agenda
remains unchanged.

1. Conduct of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting

The Annual Shareholders' Meeting will be broadcasted in full and in live
conditions on the website page dedicated to the 2020 Annual Shareholders'
Meeting.

During the 2020 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, it will be neither possible to
ask questions nor to propose new resolutions.

2. Conditions to attend the meeting

The conditions to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting may change according
to legal and regulatory provisions that may be adopted due to the current
sanitary situation. Shareholders are invited to refer to the section of the
website dedicated to the 2020 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, regularly updated,
for further information.

Shareholders are invited as from now to exercise their rights as shareholders
by electronic means (Internet) or by post: (i) voting by mail or appointing the
Chairman of the meeting as proxy and (ii) asking written questions under the
conditions mentioned on the Group's website page dedicated to the 2020 Annual
Shareholders' Meeting.

It is recommended to use Internet to send vote instructions or proxy form to
the Chairman considering the potential reduction of postal services.

The right to attend the Annual Shareholders' meeting is subject to the
registration of company's shares under the conditions and within the timeframe
as mentioned in the notice to the meeting published in the Bulletin des
Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO) of April 1st, 2020 and in the notice of
the meeting available on the Group's website page dedicated to the 2020 Annual
Shareholders' Meeting.

2.1 Vote or proxy to the Chairman of the meeting

2.1.1 By electronic means (Internet)

Shareholders may send their vote instructions or appoint the Chairman of the
meeting as proxy by Internet, before the 2020 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, on
VOTACCESS website, as follows:

Pure and administered registered shareholders who wish to vote or to be
represented by appointing the Chairman of the meeting as proxy by internet,
connect to VOTACCESS site via the secured platform Planetshares, using the
following address: https://planetshares.bnpparibas.com.

The shareholders holding bearing shares must check whether his/her authorized
intermediary is connected to VOTACCESS or not and, if so, whether access is
subject to any specific conditions of use.

If the authorized intermediary is connected to the VOTACCESS site, the
shareholder shall identify himself/herself on its portal with his/her usual
access codes and follow the instructions given on the screen to access
VOTACCESS for voting or appointing the Chairman as proxy.

VOTACCESS site will be open as from April 3rd, 2020 until April 22, 2020 at
3:00 p.m. Paris time.

However, to avoid overloading VOTACCESS site, shareholders are advised not to
wait until the day before the meeting for submitting their votes.

2.1.2 By post

Shareholders may vote by mail or be represented by appointing the Chairman of
the meeting as proxy as follows:

- For registered shareholders: return the single postal or proxy vote form to
the following address: BNP Paribas Securities Services - CTO Assemblées -
Grands Moulins de Pantin - 93761 Pantin cedex.

- For bearer shareholders: apply for the single postal or proxy vote form to
the intermediary that handles the securities account. Once filled in by the
shareholder, this form is to be returned to the intermediary who shall send it
along with a participation certificate to the following address: BNP Paribas
Securities Services - CTO Assemblées - Grands Moulins de Pantin - 93761 Pantin
cedex.

To be taken into account, postal vote forms must be received by the "Service
Assemblées Générales" of BNP Paribas Securities Services three days at the
latest before the date on which the meeting is to be held, i.e. April 20, 2020,
3 p.m. Paris time.

It is reminded that for every proxy vote form of a shareholder without a
pre-indicated proxy vote, the Chairman of the meeting shall vote in favour of
adopting the draft resolutions submitted or approved by the board of directors
and vote against the adoption of all other draft resolutions.

2.2 Questions in writing

Any shareholder has the right to ask question in writing. The questions must be
sent either by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt to the following
address: Le Hive - 35 rue Joseph Monier - 92500 Rueil- Malmaison, or by
electronic mail to the following address: schneiderAGM@se.com. The questions
must be sent on Monday 20 April 2020 at 5 p.m., Paris time, at the latest,
along with a participation certificate.

In conformity with the legal and regulatory provisions applicable, the answers
of the board of directors will be read out during the meeting or published on
the Group's website in the section dedicated to the 2020 Annual Shareholders'
Meeting.

Shareholders may request the disclosure of documents that would not be
available on the Group's website by sending a request by e-mail to the address
above, to which it will be replied by electronic means.

All information relating to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of April 23, 2020
will be available on the Group's website, on the page dedicated to the 2020
Annual Shareholders' Meeting.

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